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Michael nesmith, singer and guitarist with 1960s pop group the monkees, has died at the age of 78. the quartet rose to fame with a string of hit songs and starred in their own popular tv sitcom. nesmith, who was from texas, penned songs like mary, mary; circle sky; listen to the band; and the girl i knew somewhere. in a statement to us media, his family said he "passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes". our media and arts correspondent david sillito told me he was a big fan of the monkees growing up. mike nesmith, i grew up watching the monk...

Fan of the monkees growing up. mike, i grew up watching the monkees thinking it was the most fantastic tv programme i'd ever seen, and it is hard how popular they were in their peak, and there is a fantastic audition tape of him back in 1966, i think it is, 65, and there he is in the woolly hat, the deadpan drawl style there from the very beginning, absolutely crucial parts of the monkees magic. and he was already by this point a singer—songwriter. he had songs, one of his songs was being sung by linda ronstadt, but of course, famously, the monkees weren't allowed to play on their first reco...