The Monkees Gave 1 of Their Songs to Linda Ronstadt and She Made It a Hit

Many of The Monkees' greatest songs were written by other artists like Carole King and Neil Diamond. On the other hand, one of the greatest songs any of The Monkees ever wrote was recorded by the legendary Linda Ronstadt. During an interview, The Monkees' Micky Dolenz explained why one of his bandmates gave one of his songs to another artist.

Because they were similar to The Beatles and sang songs written by other people, The Monkees were sometimes called the Prefab Four. However, this erases the fact that members of the band wrote songs, played instruments, and had varying degrees of control over their careers at different points. For example, Dolenz explained that Mike Nesmith wrote a track he wanted The Monkees to perform.

"We were sitting around, and Nez and Peter [Tork] would always have guitars," Dolenz told Ultimate Classic Rock. "I remember sitting around singing as we were waiting to film. They tended to be Nesmith tunes because he was the one that was writing."

Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones

The Kremlin told officials involved in preparations for Russia's 2024 presidential election to stop using Apple (AAPL.O) iPhones because of concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, the Kommersant newspaper reported.

At a Kremlin-organised seminar for officials involved in domestic politics, Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy head of the presidential administration, told officials to change their phones by April 1, Kommersant said, citing unidentified sources.

"It's all over for the iPhone: either throw it away or give it to the children," Kommersant quoted one of the participants of the meeting as saying. "Everyone will have to do it in March."

The "gentleman" above is Eric Popper. According to police, in 2021 he cut off another car in traffic, brake checked the car when they honked at him (you can see him in the video below jamming on the brakes, and the speedometer in the bottom left corner briefly drops below 50 MPH when just seconds earlier, at the start of the video, he'd been doing 70), then took out a gun and shot as the other car as they pulled past him. Remarkably, the action was all caught by his own dashcam monitor.

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