Micky Dolenz

Dolenz was interested in working behind the camera as well as acting and music, and he directed one of the final episodes of the Monkees' series. After leaving the group, he kept a hand in music by cutting a handful of solo singles for MGM Records, as well as one 45 with producer Michael Lloyd under the name Starship (years before Jefferson Starship would truncate their name to the same form), but his highest public profile was as an actor, appearing on shows such as My Three Sons, Adam-12, and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law and becoming a popular voice artist on animated programs, including The Funky Phantom and Devlin. He stepped back into music in 1976 with the album Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, in which he and Davy Jones teamed with Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who wrote and produced many of the Monkees' most memorable tunes. The album and subsequent concert tour received favorable reviews but attracted few paying customers, and in 1977 Dolenz traveled to England to appear in the London production of The Point, a stage musical based on Harry Nilsson's 1971 concept album (which had already been made into an animated film for television). While he expected to stay in London for three months, he ended up staying for twelve years, establishing himself as a successful director in television and the legitimate stage.

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