Arctic Monkeys were embarking on a mammoth world tour that rode off the success of their seminal 'AM' album. But one band weren't impressed.
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.
So the Beatles got it. They got what the Monkees were, which was a TV show. It was not a band. It was not a group. It was a television show about a group. And then it did become a group and go out ...