occasional "Wool Hat") who was made popular by the 60's television show "The

Monkees". Although Nez did a lot more notable things in his life time, he will always be

plagued with this. The reason why I am doing my report on him rather than someone

else is because I want to clear his name up in history. This report contains everything

from birth, his childhood, his time with the Monkees, his music after the Monkees, his

video distribution company, how he pioneered MTV up to his recent multi-million

Michael Nesmith was born on December 31, 1943 to Warren and Bette Claire

McMurray. After the war Bette divorced Warren Nesmith because of incompatibility and

Warren left the family in poverty. In the 1950's Bette had been left some land from her

Father and they moved to a Negro development in Dallas, Texas. Nez attended Thomas

Jefferson High School and wasn't exactly the role model student. He made it clear he

didn't like being there so it wasn't an upset to the staff when he dropped out in his senior

year. The only class he did care about was his choir class, where he excelled at first

Bob called on Don Kirshner to be the music supervisor. He was the president of the

In 1980 Michael was shopping around for ideas about music videos. He had been

comebacks which were very successful and they released two studio albums. Thus this is

WHAM! he put his fist through the wall of the bungalow. In the midst of the dust and the

original works for cable television as well as home video.

on work that other people had done and that he wouldn't have anymore to do with it.

subject. While on tour in January, The Monkees were in a record shop looking around

be deceptive any longer. He had expected to get fired and he had though of moving to

Colgems released a single of Last Train to Clarksville, a song that would be featured on

They found Micky's voice the easiest voice to work with, while Michael was

mold the guys into a flawless band. They felt that the boys shouldn't be bothered by the

used to keep his long hair out of his eyes while riding his motorcycle. There were

he wanted to call it Popclips. He then went to a Television studio and proposed his idea

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