American musician and composer Michael Nesmith, a member of the rock band The Monkees, which competed with the Beatles in the 1960s, has died today at the age of 78.
“I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Michael Nesmith. “For thirty years we shared a lot of travel and plans, culminating in the Monkees farewell tour just a few weeks ago,” the band’s manager, Andrew Santoval, said on Twitter.
The artist died of natural causes at his home in California, according to local media, citing his family.
The four members of the band played, in a TV series that aired between 1966-68, the young musicians who were trying to become stars in Los Angeles. In the midst of the “madness” for the Beatles, their resemblance to the members of the British band, was by no means accidental. In the US, they even surpassed the Beatles in sales for a while: their first two albums, “The Monkees” and “More of the Monkees”, topped the charts and remained there for 31 weeks between 1966-67.
Among their biggest hits were the songs “Last Train to Clarksville”, “Daydream Believer” and “I’m a Believer”, by Neil Diamond.
Davy Jones, the band’s singer, died in 2012 and bassist Peter Tork in 2019.
“My heart broke,” Mickey Dolenz, the last living member of the original quartet, commented on Twitter.
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