From Run-DMC to U2, the durability of the Monkees & Davy Jones

Television was the priority, but the Monkees still made a lasting impression on pop music. The band's string of hits between 1966 and 1968 may have initially cashed in on Beatlemania, but the songs have long transcended novelty status, no doubt due in part to the fact that the Monkees' albums drew from expert pop craftsmen such as Carole King, Neil Diamond, and the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. With the news today that Davy Jones, the British Invasion-era singer who became a hou...

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