Micky Dolenz, the final dwelling member of The Monkees, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in opposition to the Division of Justice, looking for any information the FBI is perhaps holding concerning the hit made-for-TV band.
The agency has previously acknowledged it kept tabs on the group however a lot of the company’s information are nonetheless being unjustly saved secret, based on the federal civil criticism.
“The person members of the Monkees, each in their very own proper and as a gaggle, have been recognized to have related to different musicians and people whose actions have been monitored and/or investigated by the FBI to incorporate, however not restricted to: John Winston Lennon (and the opposite three Beatles as properly) and Jimi Hendrix,” based on the submitting by Dolenz’s lawyer Mark Zaid.
“This lawsuit is designed to acquire any information the FBI created and/or possesses on the Monkees in addition to its particular person members.”
Zaid speculated the FBI has notes about band members’ comings, going and social actions.
“If I needed to guess, it might pertain to who they hung round with throughout the counterculture, anti-war and drug leisure group,” he mentioned in a press release to NBC Information.
A consultant for the Justice Division couldn’t be instantly reached for remark Wednesday.
George Michael “Micky” Dolenz Jr., 77, is the one surviving member of the group, fashioned for an NBC sitcom of the identical identify for 2 seasons in 1966-68.
Michael Nesmith, the group’s most acclaimed musician, was 78 when he passed away late last year.
Group heartthrob Davy Jones died at age 66 in 2012.
Bassist and singer Peter Tork was 77 on the time of his passing in 2019.
Their most well-known songs embody “Final Practice to Clarksville,” “I am a Believer,” “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You,” “Daydream Believer” and “Nice Valley Sunday.”
Donna Mendell contributed.
