Episode 144: “Last Train to Clarksville” by the Monkees
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Marks Brothers - A Comparison to the Beetles
The new cast worked well together, even though there were obvious disagreements between them right from the start. The four monkeys were assigned instruments for their characters based not on instrumental skill, but on what suited their roles better. Jones was a showbes entertainer whose primary concern was that none of the other stars of the show be better looking than him. While talk was later self diagnosed as noa divergent, a folky proto hippy who wanted to drift from town to town playing his bancho. Nesmith would later say of talk, i never liked peter. He never liked me. So we had an uneasy truce between the two of us"
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