Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith of The Monkees were supposed to be on tour this month to help promote their new album, The Mike & Micky Show Live.
But like the rest of the country, both are at home because of the coronavirus pandemic. "I live in an area that's … quite secluded so if we walk around, there's nobody around," Dolenz told Billboard in a phone interview. "But we're still hunkered down.
We're not going out and doing anything." On April 1, the coronavirus claimed Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, who was chief producer of both The Monkees' 2016 album Good Times!
and their 2018 Christmas Party album and also wrote songs for each. Dolenz called his passing "just terrible." The virus also touched another associate of Dolenz's --