Monkees legend Micky Dolenz joins Chris Carter for 25 years of Breakfast With the Beatles

It was 25 years in the past right now when Chris Carter took the reins of one among LA radio’s most beloved establishments, “Breakfast With the Beatles.”

And serving to have fun a quarter-century on the airwaves Sunday was a person whose personal storied profession was kickstarted by a TV present a couple of band making an attempt to be similar to Liverpool’s Fab 4 – Monkees legend Micky Dolenz.

Dolenz, 81, sporting a black hat and signature yellow-hued glasses, joined the occasion at 95.5 KLOS’ eighth-floor studios in Burbank as he ready to hit the street for his “Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of The Monkees” tour.

He’s the final surviving unique member of the four-piece that took TV – after which the pop charts – by storm within the Nineteen Sixties.

“It was a tv present a couple of band. They lived in a Malibu seaside home and needed to be The Beatles. On the tv present we by no means made it,” Dolenz stated.

Dolenz revealed he first noticed the Beatles on a stolen TV at iconic LA hamburger joint Bob’s Large Boy.

“There was a man who had a TV within the parking zone with rabbit ears.”

Simply three years later, Dolenz would discover himself hanging out with John Lennon at Abbey Street throughout recording periods for the Beatles’ landmark “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band” album.

“It’s weird, I really feel blessed,” Dolenz stated.

The Monkees went on to attain three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100 — “Final Practice to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer” and “Daydream Believer.”

Their hit NBC tv present turned Dolenz and bandmates Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork into pop-culture icons and helped unleash Monkeemania throughout America.

“Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of The Monkees” kicks off in Phoenix earlier than arriving in Los Angeles on Sept. 12.

For 1 / 4 of a century, Angelenos have woken up on Sunday mornings to Carter spinning an eclectic mixture of Beatles classics, rarities and deep cuts.

“It’s like going to church,” stated Alex Macias, higher recognized to listeners as “Oxnard Alex,” who was within the studio for Sunday’s anniversary celebration.

Macias has painstakingly saved a spiral-notebook diary documenting each track performed on the present.

“That’s 894 exhibits. I began writing down the songs after I was going via a tough time, and it helped me get out of it,” Macias stated.

“Breakfast With the Beatles” was created by pioneering LA radio persona Deirdre O’Donoghue, who hosted this system till her demise in 2001. Carter took over later that 12 months.

And his tenure started throughout one of many darkest moments in American historical past — simply days earlier than the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults.

“I keep in mind the executives gave me a listing of songs to not play due to the tragedy, and one was ‘Think about’ by John Lennon. I instantly rebelled and performed it each hour, my first week may have been my final,” Carter stated.

“If it weren’t for Deirdre, we wouldn’t be right here,” Carter added.

This system is billed by KLOS as “America’s longest working Beatles present” and stays a Sunday morning fixture in Southern California.

Carter has interviewed Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr quite a few instances, together with George Harrison, whose interview with Carter for Capitol Information turned Harrison’s final.

Loyal listeners are handled every week to well-known friends with connections to the Fab 4, Beatles trivia and a playlist stretching from monster hits to rarities, outtakes and solo materials.

On Sunday, after filling the Los Angeles airwaves with three hours of John, Paul, George and Ringo — plus a bit of Dolenz — Carter closed his Twenty fifth-anniversary present along with his signature sign-off.

“It’s been a pleasure enjoying the Beatles for ya.”

Then got here the Beatles themselves, singing the immortal closing line from “The Finish”:

“And in the long run the love you’re taking is the same as the love you make.”

“One other one down,” Carter stated as he took off his headphones and left the studio smiling.

“Thanks for having me for 25 years,” he added.

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