Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Watch Paul McCartney and Band Sing “The Monkees” Theme Song Backstage

This is a gem of a video by Mary McCartney.

She got her dad, Paul, and the band singing The Monkees theme song backstage at London’s O2 Arena.

Paul seems to know that song very well. Why not? In 1966, the Monkees emerged as an American answer to the Beatles. Their records sold like crazy. Their TV show was an homage, let’s say, to the Beatles movies “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!”

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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