
Episode 162: “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The track became one of the group's most well-known and well-loved tracks, making number three on the charts behind all you need is love and like my fire. It seems likely that Dolan's contributed some of the acoustic rhythm guitar on the track, along with Bill Chadwick,. If that's true, all three monkey instrumentalists did play on the track. Nesbith is present on every track on the album except Jones's solo Hard to Believe and Torque's spoken word track, Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky. By this point he felt disengaged from everything that was going on, like his opinions weren't welcome.
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