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Printing Date: 1967
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I was born in 1964, so I wasn't old enough to catch Monkeemania Phase One. Like many fans, I caught up to it during it's 1976 resurgence on syndicated TV. Pre-internet, Monkee items were hard to come by then, with the exception of used records of course. I would have killed for this little book then, with it's millions of photographs & illustrations of the guys, hard-selling their television image as 4 guys who are the best of friends, living together in a beach house and involved in non-stop capers in a seemingly sexless universe.
4 guys that bed down together but never take off their clothes (or even their boots) for sleep? I guess it's the ultimate ode to male-bonding! Ingenious though, as it was non-threatening to young girls and a fun idea for young boys who don't yet have a sexual itch. Presexual adolescence is really the last of the uncomplicated times for most people, so its little wonder the Monkees remain so indelible. They promised fun without strings.
Parusing this book, I felt a little rush--I could suddenly imagine being a 12 year old kid in 1967, caught up in the imaginary world of the TV show and reading my Monkees book on the schoolbus or in my bed. It is slight, to be sure, and devoid of any serious content. The text is a mere formatlity in fact--it's only really there as a foundation around which to arrange the numerous illustrations. The "interviews" with the guys are almost surely made up by the author, and what passed for unbridled whackiness at the time seems almost gratingly witless today. But there remains something charming about this little time capsule, for it's a key to a lost world of optimism, bright colors, happy music, and simple times. For fans who discovered the Monkees when they were still children, this will help you relive some of that old thrill of still being able to believe in implausible idealism, so that when you put it down you can--for a time atleast--look at the modern world with younger, less weary eyes.
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This zany hyper-illustrated paperback book was published by Raybert Prodcutions during the height of Monkeemania, 1967. Most of the pictures of the guys appear from 1966.
There are grey and white photos and/or images on every page, which is unnumbered (I guess about 100 pages total). There are also some comic strips of the guys scattered throughout the book; one of these same comic strips was featured in Monkee's Tale by Lefcowitz. I have not seen many of these photographs elsewhere, so some of the photos could be considered rare.
One the many strange drawing shows Micky's photographed head superimposed on a body of a boy from the 19th century facing a victorian dressed girl whose face is superimposed with a photograph of Davy's bespectaled face quoted as: "Now, I have known you since we were kids, and I think you are a very swell girl. But sometimes, Lizzie Borden, you have the strangest since of humor!"
There are chapters on each of the guys and titles of supposed chapters like: The Marrakech Caper or Monkee Shines.
If you like books with many photos of the guys, everhow zany or bordering psychedelic, this book is for you. The text that accompanies the photos is mostly silly and spontaneous, much like the TV show. There are also silly images of the photographed heads of the Monkees and other body parts stuck to strange old illustrations, like a collage.
This small paperback is definitely for die hard fans, only.
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