Album: The Monkees
Year: 1966
Over 50 years later, the authenticity debate rages on.
There are literally still people who care only that The Monkees were artificially created because a TV executive saw A Hard Day’s Night and exclaimed “hey, we gotta get us one of those!” I’m not one of them: I loved the TV show as a kid, and again as an adult, and the Monkees were perhaps the first example of an artist whose critical reputation grew as the people who loved them as kids became adults.
Not to mention, since we’ve gone into a more overtly pop-oriented era, those old debates seem, well, old.
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