MONKEES: 5 FUN FACTS

• Both Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz auditioned to be ‘The Fonz’ on Happy Days but were rejected largely because they both towered over co-stars like Ron Howard. They went with the diminutive Henry Winkler, who stands just 1.68m.

• The only English member, Davy Jones was a jockey before he became a Monkee. * Mike Nesmith’s mother, Bette invented Liquid Paper correction fluid.

• Peter Tork was a Greenwich Village folk musician before joining The Monkees. * Mike wore a woollen hat to his audition for the part, and the producers liked it so much, he wore it during the whole series.