{"id":2477201,"date":"2026-06-26T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2477201"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:45:49","slug":"micky-dolenz-covers-a-lost-paul-westerberg-song-on-new-ep-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/micky-dolenz-covers-a-lost-paul-westerberg-song-on-new-ep-timeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Micky Dolenz Covers a Lost Paul Westerberg Song on New EP &#8216;Timeless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Sept. 12, 1966, a new television show called <em>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/monkees\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monkees\" data-tag=\"monkees\">Monkees<\/a><\/em> premiered on NBC, running opposite <em>The Iron Horse<\/em> on ABC and <em>Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> on CBS. And while <em>The Iron Horse<\/em> remains a minuscule footnote in pop-culture history, and <em>Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> lived forever as a time loop in reruns, the Monkees saga is somehow still unfolding \u2014 even though <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/micky-dolenz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_micky-dolenz\" data-tag=\"micky-dolenz\">Micky Dolenz<\/a>, the voice behind most of their biggest hits, is the last living member following the deaths of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/davy-jones-the-life-of-a-monkee-98268\/\">Davy Jones,<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-tork-monkees-dead-at-77-obituary-797269\/\">Peter Tork,<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/michael-nesmith-monkees-last-interview-final-tour-micky-dolenz-1278666\/\">Michael Nesmith.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary, Dolenz is releasing the six-song EP <em>Timeless<\/em> on Sept. 4. Right now, you can hear leadoff single \u201cTerri,\u201d written by Replacements lead singer Paul Westerberg.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Micky Dolenz - &quot;Terri&quot; [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRYDb7W8-Ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Timeless<\/em> was produced by John Hughes, a key creative force behind the acclaimed Monkees 50th anniversary LP <em>Good Times!<\/em>, Pete Donnelly of the Figgs and NRBQ, and Sam Hollander, who has worked with everyone from Weezer and One Direction to Katy Perry and blink-182.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI told Sam, like I tell all my producers now, \u2018I don\u2019t produce, and I don\u2019t write. I don\u2019t want to be in there working out the EQ on the bass. I\u2019m not an engineer,&#8217;\u201d Dolenz tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI think I\u2019ve gotten pretty good at delegating and relegating responsibility over the years. And I said, \u2018Sam, you think of me as Frank Sinatra, and you\u2019re Quincy Jones.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn other words, Dolenz placed tremendous faith in the team he assembled for the project. And they delivered not only Westerberg\u2019s \u201cTerri,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dBNBvR5KIO4&amp;list=RDdBNBvR5KIO4&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> which was originally released as \u201cWho You Gonna Marry\u201d on his 2008 super under-the-radar LP <em>49:00<\/em>,<\/a> but also tunes by Andy Partridge, Shelby Lynne, Pete Donnelly, Sam Hollander, Adam Schlesinger, Vicki Peterson, and Jonny Polonsky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarly on, they decided to cut an EP rather than a full LP. \u201cIt\u2019s bloody difficult to find 12 great songs,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cNowadays, of course, nobody even plays an album top to bottom. It\u2019s all playlists. And so why not just pick the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me?\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe EP was cut over just a few days early in the year at Raw Recording in Patterson, New York, and Farmland Studios in Nashville, utilizing veteran members of the Monkees touring band, including drummer Rich Dart, guitarist Wayne Avers, keyboardist Alex Jules, and singer Coco Dolenz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tXTC\u2019s Andy Partridge, who wrote \u201cYou Bring the Summer\u201d for <em>Good Times!<\/em>, contributed \u201cAny Way You Want Me\u201d to <em>Timeless<\/em>. \u201cIt has a <em>Good Times!<\/em> vibe to it, that jangly Sixties rock vibe,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cBut yet it wasn\u2019t totally retro, like it\u2019s trying to sound like it was from the Sixties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cSomething Happened\u201d was written by Sam Hollander, Steven Gold, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/adam-schlesinger-life-death-obituary-981333\/\">the late Adam Schlesinger<\/a> \u2014 who co-produced <em>Good Times!<\/em> \u2014 about a decade ago. \u201cIt originally had a totally different theme,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cIt was originally kind of depressing,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cIt was like, \u2018Something happened, we were doing so well and then it all fell apart, and what a shame, and it was really terrible.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDolenz told John Hughes that the song didn\u2019t exactly fit with the Monkees saga. \u201cHe said, \u2018Well, the Monkees eventually broke up.\u2019 I said, \u2018No, we didn\u2019t. The show went off the air, but we were very successful. We didn\u2019t have vendettas against each other. We went out on the top of the world, with Number One fuckin\u2019 songs, and look what\u2019s happening 60 years later, so the sentiment is wrong.\u2019 To his credit, Sam went back and rewrote it with that vibe, and it is spectacular. He took \u2018Something Happened\u2019 from something happened bad to something happened really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWaiting for Day\u201d was written by Bangles singer\/guitarist Vicki Peterson. It\u2019s a duet between Micky and his sister Coco. \u201cCoco and I have been singing all our lives together,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cIt\u2019s that same Everly Brothers thing, but she would be doing the high harmony. This goes right back from the beginning, before the Monkees, when we were kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPete Donnelly and Shelby Lynne wrote \u201cWhere Do the Tears Come From.\u201d \u201cShelby Lynne is a great singer, and she has that great bluesy feel,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cThe original demo had a bluesy kind of feel. But I didn\u2019t want to try to sound like Shelby Lynne or Otis Redding or someone like that. We went instead with something that had more of a Burt Bacharach kind of thing. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe EP ends with \u201cIn the Center of My Heart, There\u2019s a Force Commonly Known as Love,\u201d which was written by Jonny Polonsky. \u201cThat\u2019s a strange song,\u201d says Dolenz. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very poetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Micky Dolenz (ft. Rich Dart), \u201cYour Auntie Grizelda,\u201d The Paramount, Huntington, NY, 4\/19\/2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Jqv7f40UR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt some point, Dolenz is going to work at least a couple of these songs into his live show. But right now, it\u2019s focused solely on Monkees classics, which he\u2019s presenting in chronological order to mark the group\u2019s 60th anniversary. He sings most of them himself, but he occasionally takes a breath while members of his band take the lead on songs like \u201cYour Auntie Grizelda,\u201d \u201cValleri,\u201d \u201cYou Just May Be the One,\u201d and \u201cTapioca Tundra.\u201d \u201cI was worried about this at first,\u201d Dolenz says. \u201cI thought people might go, \u2018Why is some strange keyboard player singing a song?\u2019 But it\u2019s really been working.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Micky Dolenz, \u201cAs We Go Along,\u201d The Paramount, Huntington, NY, 4\/19\/2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZAGYhbrSPgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd even though he\u2019s now 81 years old, Dolenz is still able to deliver vocally demanding tunes like \u201cAs We Go Along\u201d and \u201cPorpoise Song\u201d with an ease and comfort matched by very few other singers of his generation. He says it\u2019s a mixture of genetics and hard work. \u201cYour vocal cords are muscles,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd like any sport, you\u2019ve got to take care of those muscles. If you were a tennis player, you wouldn\u2019t walk out onto center court at Wimbledon without having warmed up or practiced.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Micky Dolenz Porpoise Song 4-15-26 Wolf Trap\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aEA8lejik3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhat I learned from my wonderful vocal coach, Eric Vitro, is how to sing from your diaphragm,\u201d he continues. \u201cThat\u2019s not where the tone comes from \u2014 that\u2019s from here \u2014 but all of the strength, all of the power, all of the control comes from there. That\u2019s why people ruin their voices. If you\u2019re going to scream or hit a big, high, loud note, they do it from their throat, and that\u2019s when you rip the shit out of your chords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDolenz also gives himself rest by touring in relatively short bursts, and only agreeing to \u201cfly dates.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t do a bus tour anymore,\u201d he says. \u201cI just can\u2019t. It beats me up too much. That last one with Nez [in 2021] really wiped me out, so I can\u2019t do that. I have a lot of dates, but they\u2019re spread out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNez died less than a month after the end of that final Monkees tour. Since that time, some might see little distinction between Dolenz solo runs and \u201cMonkees\u201d tours since he\u2019s the last remaining member of the band. But the solo shows feature a cross section of material, and don\u2019t utilize the iconic Monkees red guitar logo on promotional materials. Dolenz has to pay a license fee to use that on Monkees tours, like the 2023 shows where he played <em>Headquarters<\/em> straight through, and this ongoing 60th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDates run through Nov. 15, and more will likely be added next year. His plans beyond that are unclear, but he says that fans shouldn\u2019t expect any sort of farewell tour, let alone retirement plans. \u201cA moving target\u2019s harder to hit,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I keep moving. And Einstein said, \u2018Life is like a bicycle. In order to stay balanced, you have to keep moving.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 12, 1966, a new television show called The Monkees premiered on NBC, running opposite The Iron Horse on ABC and Gilligan\u2019s Island on CBS. And while The Iron Horse remains a minuscule footnote in pop-culture history, and Gilligan\u2019s Island lived forever as a time loop in reruns, the Monkees saga is somehow still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[363667,371632],"class_list":["post-2477201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-micky-dolenz","tag-monkees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Micky-Dolenz-Covers-a-Lost-Paul-Westerberg-Song-on-New.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477203,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477201\/revisions\/2477203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}