Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were like the Marx Brothers.

And by the next summer, the summer of '67, we were on the road. So in that sense, we did become a band. But if you look at the Monkees more as, like, a Broadway musical or, like, a Marx Brothers ...