Four years after the death of Mike Nesmith left him the last Monkee standing, Micky Dolenz says he’ll be too busy singing in 2026 to bring anybody down about that.

“I feel it’s time to take off the black armband and just celebrate the whole Monkees project,” the 80-year-old musician and actor tells Billboard. His Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of the Monkees tour kicks off Feb. 12 in Solana Beach, Calif., with 22 dates so far announced into November. “The show’s not gonna be a memorial. It’s not going to be heavily tributed. I’m just gonna sing the songs and tell the stories.” The 60 Years performance will be a bit more formatted than his other endeavors, however.

“I’ll be focusing more on the chronology and on the TV show, using videos from the original episodes,” Dolenz explains. “I still have

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