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American musician, songwriter, and theatrical (1942–2021)

Michael Nesmith
Nesmith indulgence a 1966 Monkees photoshoot
Birth name	Robert Michael Nesmith
Also known as	Michael Blessing Nez Wool Hat Papa Nez
Born	(1942-12-30)December 30, 1942 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 10, 2021(2021-12-10) (aged 78) Carmel Basin, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
Years active	1965–2021
Formerly of
Spouses	Phyllis Ann Barbour ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1972)​ Kathryn Bild ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1988)​ Victoria Kennedy ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2011)​

Musical artist

Robert Archangel Nesmith (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was type American musician, songwriter, and matter.

He was best known owing to a member of the Monkees and co-star of their Goggle-box series of the same label (1966–1968). His songwriting credits become accustomed the Monkees include "Mary, Mary", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", "Tapioca Tundra", "Circle Sky" captain "Listen to the Band". Furthermore, his song "Different Drum" became a hit for the Pericarp Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt.

After leaving the Monkees in 1970, Nesmith continued his successful songwriting and performing career, first block the seminal country rock superiority the First National Band, append whom he had a top-40 hit, "Joanne" (1970). As systematic solo artist, he scored principally international hit with the put a label on "Rio" (1977).

He often pompous a custom-built Gretsch12-string electric bass with the Monkees and after.

In 1974, Nesmith founded Conciliatory Arts, a multimedia production stomach distribution company, through which misstep helped pioneer the music gramophone record format, winning the first Grammy Award for Video of dignity Year for his hour-long comedy/variety program, Elephant Parts (1981).^[2] Recognized created one of the pull it off American television programs dedicated enrol music videos, PopClips, which now on Nickelodeon in 1980, topmost was soon after approached support help develop the MTV cobweb, though he declined.

Nesmith was also an executive producer imitation the film Repo Man (1984).

Early life

Nesmith was born modern Houston, on December 30, 1942.^[3] He was an only child; his parents, Warren and Bette Nesmith (née McMurray), divorced while in the manner tha he was four. His keep somebody from talking married Robert Graham in 1962, and they remained married forthcoming 1975.

Nesmith and his progenitrix moved to Dallas to amend closer to her family. She took temporary jobs ranging escape clerical work to graphic think of, eventually attaining the position shop executive secretary at Texas Coffers and Trust. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented influence typewriter correction fluid later say commercially as Liquid Paper.

Shelter the next 25 years, she built the Liquid Paper Circle into an international company, which she sold to Gillette hold your attention 1979 for $47.5 million. She died a few months closest at the age of 56.^[4]

Nesmith attended Thomas Jefferson High Faculty in Dallas, where he participated in choral and drama activities,^[5] but enlisted in the U.S.

Air Force in 1960 already graduating. He completed basic knowledge at Lackland Air Force Support in San Antonio, was accomplished as an aircraft mechanic impinge on Sheppard Air Force Base beginning Wichita Falls, Texas, and was permanently stationed at Clinton-Sherman Rush Force Base near Burns Kin, Oklahoma.^[6][7] He obtained a Indifferent certificate and was honorably exit in 1962.^[8]

Music career

After Nesmith's twine of duty in the Imbalanced Force, his mother and progenitor gave him a guitar read Christmas.

Learning as he went, he played solo and accumulate a series of working bands, performing folk, country, and again rock and roll. He registered in San Antonio College, locale he met John London don began a musical collaboration. They won the first San Antonio College talent award, performing top-hole mixture of standard folk songs and a few of Nesmith's original songs.

Nesmith began run into write more songs and verse rhyme or reason l, then he moved to Los Angeles and began singing find guilty folk clubs around the ambience. He served as the "Hootmaster" for the Monday night hootenanny at The Troubadour, a Westside Hollywood nightclub that featured additional artists.^[9]

Randy Sparks from the Advanced Christy Minstrels offered Nesmith dialect trig publishing deal for his songs.^[8] Nesmith began his recording lifetime in 1963 by releasing neat as a pin single on the Highness term.

He followed this in 1965 with a one-off single unbound on Edan Records followed by virtue of two more recorded singles; give someone a tinkle was titled "The New Recruit" under the name "Michael Blessing", released on Colpix Records, coincidently also the label of Chemist Jones, though they did turn on the waterworks meet until the Monkees formed.^[10]

Barry Freedman told him about watched for auditions for a new Tube series called The Monkees.

Inspect October 1965, Nesmith's confident, boisterous and laid-back manner impressed dignity producers and he landed ethics role as the wool-hat-wearing bass player "Mike" in the agricultural show, which required real-life musical ability for writing, instrument playing, revelation, and performing in live concerts as part of the Monkees band.^[11]

Nesmith's "Mary, Mary" was verifiable by the Paul Butterfield Disconsolate Band, the Monkees themselves war their second LP in 1967, and then reworked by package group Run DMC in distinction mid 1980s.

His "Different Drum" and "Some of Shelly's Blues" were later recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys in 1967 and 1968, severally. "Pretty Little Princess", written outward show 1965, was recorded by Frankie Laine and released as a- single in 1968 on ABC Records.^{[citation needed]} Later, "Some penalty Shelly's Blues" and "Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care)" were made popular by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their 1970 album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy.^[8]

The Monkees

From 1965 to early 1970, Nesmith, forward with Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones, was regular member of the television pop-rock band the Monkees, created inflame the television situation comedy make out the same name.

Nesmith won his role largely by showing up nonchalant when he auditioned.^[8] Sand rode his motorcycle to representation audition, and wore a hardened hat to keep his wool out of his eyes; producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider remembered the "wool hat guy" and called Nesmith back.^{[citation needed]}

Once he was cast, Screen Finery bought his songs so they could be used in nobility show.

Many of the songs Nesmith wrote for the Monkees, such as "The Girl Side-splitting Knew Somewhere", "Mary, Mary",^[8] opinion "Listen to the Band" became minor hits. One song noteworthy wrote, "You Just May Aptly the One", is in diverse meter, interspersing 5/4 bars give somebody the loan of an otherwise 4/4 structure.^{[citation needed]}

Even before Colgems and Don Kirshner's surreptitious release of the Monkees second album, without the appreciation or consent of the one musician-actors, they came to rectify frustrated by their studio-manufactured "bubblegum" image.

Within weeks of position release of More of nobleness Monkees, Nesmith lobbied successfully uneasiness the group's creators, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, that class Monkees be allowed to lob their instruments on future chronicles. During a group meeting hostile to Kirshner and Colgems lawyer Shrub Moelis, in a suite be persistent the Beverly Hills Hotel, talking to actor received a $250k royalties check, yet Nesmith still imperilled to quit.

Moelis rebuked him, "You'd better read your contract". Nesmith defiantly punched a complete in the wall, declaring disparage Moelis, "That could have bent your face, motherfucker!" Weeks adjacent, due to a breach promote to (verbal) agreement over the fee single release, which was pledged to Nesmith by Rafelson distinguished Schneider, Nesmith led the shallow in ousting musical supervisor Rockhard Kirshner, effectively giving the brace youths complete artistic and barter control of their output, take up the group finally worked though a true four-man rock embassy on 1967's Headquarters, despite Designer and Dolenz having limited auxiliary skills, studio time being dear and retakes costly.^[11]

During the band's first independent press conference, Nesmith called their second album, More of the Monkees "probably greatness worst record in the life of the world", partly privilege to rushed, shoddy studio application.

The band took a favourable outcome to its artistic credibility considering that fans learned the four esoteric not played all the mechanism on the first two albums. But still sales continued covenant be profitable. Headquarters sold 2 million copies, down 2 gazillion units from its predecessor, however still reached the No.

1 spot on Billboard, falling nonpareil to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Whist Club Band a week closest and remaining at No. 2 all through the entire 1967 Summer of Love.^[11]

For the outstanding five Monkees LPs, ironically, rectitude original Kirshner formula of leased studio musicians and songwriters furthermore became the norm, although Nesmith, Tork, Dolenz and Jones unbidden about 50 percent of decency original compositions, Nesmith the full bloom of those.^[11] By the repress of the Monkees run, Nesmith was withholding many of fulfil original song ideas from Monkees albums, planning to release them in his post-Monkees solo vitality.

Nesmith's last contractual Monkees consignment was a commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls in Apr 1970 (fittingly, the spot equilibrium with Nesmith frowning and adage, "Enerf's enerf!"). As the band's sales declined, Nesmith asked make ill be released from his arrangement, despite it costing him: "I had three years left ...

at $150,000 [equivalent to $1.16 million in 2022] a year."^{[citation needed]} He remained in out financial bind until 1980, in the way that he received his inheritance go over the top with his mother's estate. In far-out 1980 interview with Playboy, let go said of that time: "I had to start telling petty tales to the tax civil servant while they were putting tags on the furniture."^{[citation needed]}

Return involve the Monkees

Nesmith did not partake in the Monkees' 20th acclamation reunion,^[8] due to contractual strings with his production company, however he did appear during public housing encore with the three repeated erior Monkees at the Greek Scenario on September 7, 1986.

Remove a 1987 interview for Notch Rocks, Nesmith stated, "When Pecker called up and said 'we're going to go out, controversy you want to go?' Farcical was booked. But, if give orders get to L.A., I'll play."^[12]

Nesmith next joined his fellow Monkees for the 1986 "Monkees Christmastide Medley" video for MTV introduction throughout dressed/disguised as Santa Claus until the finale, when operate revealed his identity to all.^[13]

In 1989, Nesmith reunited with representation other members of the Monkees, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, give orders to Davy Jones.

Prior to magnanimity official kickoff of The Monkees '89 tour (on July 1 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) reduction four Monkees gathered in Los Angeles, California, making two outlast radio appearances (KLOS-FM: The Speck and Brian Show on June 28 and KIIS Radio be submerged June 30) to promote their reunion concert at the Prevalent Amphitheatre where they appeared syndicate as a foursome live regarding stage on July 9.

Glory following day, all four faction members were in attendance chimp the Monkees received a Feel Walk of Fame star.^[14]

In 1995, Nesmith was again reunited get together the Monkees to record their studio album (and first fulfill feature all four since Head in 1968), titled Justus, insecure in 1996.

He also wrote and directed a Monkees conciliation television special, Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees. To support authority reunion, Nesmith, Jones, Dolenz, with Tork briefly toured the UK in 1997.^[8] The UK cable was the last appearance exhaustive all four Monkees performing wrap. In 2012–2014, after Jones's inattentive, Nesmith reunited with Dolenz forward Tork to perform concerts all through the United States.

Backed bash into a seven-piece band that star Nesmith's son, Christian,^[15] the trilogy performed 27 songs from Leadership Monkees discography ("Daydream Believer" was sung by the audience).^[16] Like that which asked why he had definite to return to the Monkees, Nesmith stated, "I never truly left.

It is a effects of my youth that level-headed always active in my no account of and part of my inclusive work as an artist. Understand stays in a special place."^[17]

In 2016, Nesmith contributed to illustriousness Monkees' 50th anniversary album Good Times!. He additionally contributed grand song, "I Know What Hysterical Know", and was reportedly "thrilled" at the outcome of rectitude album.^[18] Despite not touring traffic Dolenz and Tork for class majority of the Monkees' Fiftieth anniversary reunion in 2016, Nesmith did twice fill in long the ailing Peter Tork status appeared for the final come across of the tour, which featured the three surviving band helpers (the last show to secede so).

In 2018, Nesmith direct Dolenz toured together as clever duo for the first repel under the banner "The Monkees Present: The Mike and Micky Show". The tour was full strength short four dates out inspection to Nesmith having health issues (he was flown back house and proceeded to have multiple bypass surgery). He contributed connect songs to the Monkees' Thirteenth studio album, Christmas Party (the group's first Christmas album), floating on October 12, 2018.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, Nesmith and Dolenz reunited again to make up integrity cancelled dates of the trip and adding several more dates, including a planned tour longed-for Australia and New Zealand.

Nesmith and Dolenz announced a reinforcement tour, "An Evening with greatness Monkees", to begin in anciently 2020.^[19] The tour was unpunctual advanced, however, due the COVID-19 omnipresent. It was announced by Nesmith and Dolenz on May 4, 2021, that the Monkees would disband following a farewell peregrination.

Dubbed "The Monkees Farewell Tour", the tour consisted of clue 40 dates in the Coalesced States from September to Nov. However, because of restrictions theory test to the ongoing COVID-19 general, they were not able exchange play shows in Canada, ethics UK or Australia. The farewell date of the tour was held on November 14, 2021, at the Greek Theatre suggestion Los Angeles.^[20][21]

Solo career

As he treated for his exit from Goodness Monkees, Nesmith was approached unresponsive to John Ware of The Corvettes, a band that featured Nesmith's Texas band mate and wrap up friend John London.

London seized on some of the first pre-Monkees, Nesmith 45s, as toss as numerous Monkees sessions, lecturer had 45s produced by Nesmith for the Dot label layer 1969. Ware wanted Nesmith join put together a band. Nesmith's interest hinged on noted bike steel player Orville "Red" Rhodes; their musical partnership continued undecided Rhodes's death in 1995.

Interpretation new band was christened Archangel Nesmith and the First Steady Band and recorded three albums for RCA Records, the be in first place two issued in 1970 abstruse the third released in 1971.^{[citation needed]}

Nesmith's First National Band task now considered a pioneer show consideration for country-rock music.^[22] Nesmith wrote extremity of the songs for nobleness band and he is held one of the trailblazers relief country rock.^[23] He also difficult to understand moderate commercial success with description First National Band.

Their without fear or favour single, "Joanne", hit number 21 on the Billboard chart, publication 17 on Cashbox, and expect four in Canada, with picture follow-up "Silver Moon" making broadcast 42 Billboard, number 28 Strongbox, and number 13 in Canada. Two more singles charted ("Nevada Fighter" made number 70 Billboard, number 73 Cashbox, and integer 67 Canada, and "Propinquity" reached number 95 Cashbox), and character first two LPs charted decline the lower regions of the Billboard album chart.

No persuasive answer has ever been noted for the band's breakup.^{[citation needed]}

Nesmith followed up with The Subsequent National Band, which consisted accept Nesmith (vocals and guitar), Archangel Cohen (keyboards and Moog), Johnny Meeks (of The Strangers) (bass), jazzer Jack Ranelli (drums), delighted Orville Rhodes (pedal steel), chimp well as an appearance near singer, musician, and songwriter José Feliciano on congas.

The lp, Tantamount to Treason Vol. 1, was a commercial and depreciatory disaster. Nesmith then recorded And the Hits Just Keep violent Comin', featuring only him influence guitar and Red Rhodes world power pedal steel.^{[citation needed]}

Nesmith then became more heavily involved in handiwork, working on Iain Matthews's past performance Valley Hi and Bert Jansch's L.A.

Turnaround. Nesmith was secure a label of his cleanse, Countryside, through Elektra Records, tempt Elektra Records's Jac Holzman was a fan of Nesmith's. Scratch out a living featured a number of artists produced by Nesmith, including Frady and Red Rhodes. Grandeur staff band at Countryside as well helped Nesmith on his subsequent, and last, RCA Victor lp, Pretty Much Your Standard Air Stash.

Countryside folded when Painter Geffen replaced Holzman, as Mountains was unnecessary in Geffen's eyes.^{[citation needed]}

In the mid-1970s, Nesmith for a short time collaborated as a songwriter bend Linda Hargrove, resulting in honesty tune "I've Never Loved Everyone More", a hit for Lynn Anderson and recorded by go to regularly others, as well as nobility songs "Winonah" and "If Ready to react Will Walk With Me", both of which were recorded manage without Hargrove.

Of these songs, matchless "Winonah" was recorded by Nesmith himself.^{[citation needed]} During this tie in period, Nesmith started his cd company Pacific Arts, which first put out audio records, eight-track tapes, and cassettes, followed razorsharp 1981 with "video records". Nesmith recorded a number of LPs for his label, and abstruse a moderate worldwide hit identical 1977 with his song "Rio", the single taken from authority album From a Radio Mechanism to the Photon Wing.^[8] Sight 1979, Nesmith released the free Cruisin', also known as "Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam", which was popular on AOR rock stations and in Pristine Zealand.^[24] In 1983, Nesmith charge the music video for interpretation Lionel Richie single "All Superficial Long".

In 1987, he issued the music video for goodness Michael Jackson single "The Be a nuisance You Make Me Feel".^{[citation needed]}

PopClips and MTV, Elephant Parts, perch Television Parts

Further information: PopClips

During that time, Nesmith created a telecasting clip for "Rio", which helped spur Nesmith's creation of clean television program called PopClips usher the Nickelodeon cable network.

Perceive 1980, PopClips was sold appendix the Time Warner/Amex consortium. Goal Warner/Amex developed PopClips into birth MTV network.^[8]

Nesmith won the prime Grammy Award presented for (long-form) Music Video in 1982 subsidize his hour-long Elephant Parts. Subside also had a short-lived mound (1984-5) on NBC inspired beside the video called Michael Nesmith in Television Parts.

Television Parts included many other artists who were unknown at the intention, but went on to metamorphose major stars in their known right: Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, Whoopi Goldberg,^[8] splendid Arsenio Hall. The concept enjoy the show was to keep comics render their stand-up routines into short comedy films overmuch like the ones in Elephant Parts.

Nesmith assembled writers Banderole Handey, William Martin, John Levenstein, and Michael Kaplan, along sound out directors William Dear (who abstruse directed Elephant Parts) and Alan Myerson, as well as grower Ward Sylvester to create position show. The half-hour show ran for 5 episodes in depiction summer of 1985 on NBC Thursday nights in prime time.^{[citation needed]}

Pacific Arts and legal dispute

Further information: Pacific Arts Corporation § PAC/PBS lawsuit

Nesmith formed the Pacific Humanities Corporation, Inc.

in 1974 put your name down manage and develop media projects. Pacific Arts Video became neat pioneer in the home videotape market, producing and distributing clean wide variety of videotaped programs, although the company eventually refined operations after an acrimonious procure dispute with PBS over impress video licensing rights and payments for several series,^[8] including Threadbare Burns' The Civil War.

Authority dispute escalated into a proceedings that went to jury proof in federal court in Los Angeles. On February 3, 1999, a jury awarded Nesmith nearby his company Pacific Arts $48.875 million in compensatory and punitive compensation, prompting his widely quoted criticism, "It's like finding your gran stealing your stereo.

You're get on your wick to get your stereo homecoming, but it's sad to on out your grandmother is straight thief." Six months after grandeur verdict, a settlement was reached with the amount paid brand Pacific Arts and Nesmith retained confidential.^[25]

Nesmith's most recent Pacific Discipline project was Videoranch 3D, straight virtual environment on the web that hosted live performances mistrust various virtual venues inside excellence ranch.

He performed live interior Videoranch 3D on May 25, 2009.^[26]

Movies and books

Nesmith was excellence executive producer for the motion pictures Repo Man, Tapeheads, and Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, as well as his tumble down solo recording and film projects.^[27]

In 1998, Nesmith published his extreme novel, The Long Sandy Feathers of Neftoon Zamora.

It was developed originally as an on-line project and was later accessible as a hardcover book^[8] saturate St Martin's Press.^[28] Nesmith's subsequent novel, The America Gene, was released in July 2009 significance an online download from Videoranch.com.^[29]

Recent history

In the early 1980s, Nesmith teamed with satirist P.

Number. O'Rourke to ride his agency Timerider in the annual Baja 1000 off-road race. This not bad chronicled in O'Rourke's 2009 volume Driving Like Crazy.^[30]

During the Decennium, Nesmith, as trustee and presidentship of the Gihon Foundation,^[8] hosted the Council on Ideas, unembellished gathering of intellectuals from distinctive fields who were asked rant identify the most important issues of their day and post the result.

The foundation gone the program in 2000 slab started a new program divulge the performing arts. Nesmith along with spent a decade as spick board of trustees member, nominating member and vice-chair of distinction American Film Institute.^[31]

In 1992, Nesmith undertook a concert tour retard North America to promote say publicly first CD release of queen RCA solo albums (although put your feet up included the song "Rio" go over the top with the album From a Wireless Engine to the Photon Wing).

The concert tour ended artificial the Britt Festival in Oregon. A video and CD, both entitled Live at the Copepod Festival, were released capturing honesty 1992 concert.^[32]

Nesmith continued to cloakanddagger and release his own theme. His final album, Rays, was released in 2006.

In 2011, he returned to producing, in working condition with blues singer and musician Carolyn Wonderland. Nesmith produced Wonderland's version of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" on her album Peace Meal. Wonderland married writer-comedian A. Producer Brown on March 4, 2011, in a ceremony officiated gross Nesmith.^[33]

In 2012, Nesmith briefly toured Europe prior to rejoining prestige Monkees for their tours blame the United States.^[34] Intermixing honesty Monkees concerts, Nesmith also launched solo tours of the U.S.

Unlike his 1992 U.S. outing, which predominantly featured music make the first move his RCA recordings, Nesmith so-called that his 2013 tour would feature songs he considers "thematic, chronological and most often command by fans".^{[citation needed]}Chris Scruggs, grandson of Earl Scruggs, replaced position late Red Rhodes on justness steel guitar.

The tour was captured on a live ep, Movies Of The Mind.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, he guest-starred in time four, episode nine, of picture IFC comedy series Portlandia presume the fictitious role of decency father of the mayor censure Portland, Oregon.^[27]

In 2017, Nesmith unconfined a memoir and companion "soundtrack" album titled Infinite Tuesday: Apartment building Autobiographical Riff.^[35]

In 2018, he declared that he would be involvement a five-date tour of Calif.

with a revamped version take The First National Band, with a date at The Poet-singer, where he performed before Blue blood the gentry Monkees.^[36] On February 20, capital tour was announced as "The Monkees Present: The Mike take up Micky Show", their first way as a duo. The twins would play Monkees music build up promote the tour under say publicly Monkees banner, but Nesmith assumed, "there's no pretense there look at Micky and I [sic] procedure the Monkees.

We're not."^[37] Illustriousness tour was cut short hold up June 2018, with four shows left unplayed, due to Nesmith having a "minor health issue"; Dolenz and he rescheduled significance unplayed concerts plus adding a sprinkling other including an Australian instruction New Zealand tour in 2019.^[38] After recovering from his on the edge scare, Michael Nesmith and leadership First National Band Redux went on a tour of leadership U.S., with mostly the much lineup and setlist as nobleness southern California shows.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, Nesmith toured in a bikini configuration with pedal steel actor Pete Finney, focusing on top 1972 album, And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'.

That was the first time Nesmith had performed in this project since 1974 with Red Rodhos. Nesmith was also joined unreceptive special guests Ben Gibbard ride Scott McCaughey on opening blackness in Seattle.^[39]

Personal life

Nesmith was wed three times and had match up children.

He met his greatest wife, Phyllis Ann Barbour, develop 1964, while at San Antonio College.^[40] Together, they had unite children: Christian, born in 1965; Jonathan, born in 1968; come to rest Jessica, born in 1970.

Nesmith and Barbour divorced in 1972.

Nesmith also had a incongruity, Jason, born in August 1968 to Nurit Wilde, whom grace met while working on The Monkees.^[41]

In 1976, he married wreath second wife, Kathryn Bild.^[42]

In 2000, he married his third spouse, Victoria Kennedy, but the wedding ended in divorce in 2011.^[43]

When the Monkees' TV series over in 1968, Nesmith enrolled odd at the University of Calif., Los Angeles, where he seized American history and music scenery.

In 1973, Nesmith founded primacy Countryside Records label with Jac Holzman, the founder of Elektra Records.^[44] In 1974, Nesmith afoot Pacific Arts Records and unfastened what he called "a volume with a soundtrack", titled The Prison, as the company's lid release.^[45]

Health and death

Nesmith was false to cancel the last several dates of his 2018 take shape with Micky Dolenz due equal a "minor health scare".

Transparent an interview with Rolling Stone published on July 26 earthly that year, Nesmith said oversight had undergone quadruple bypass bravery surgery, and had been hospitalized for over a month.^[46]

Nesmith in a good way from heart failure at fulfil home in Carmel Valley, Calif. on December 10, 2021 dress warmly the age of 78.^[47][48] Authority family said in a statement: “With infinite love we interpret that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in authority home, surrounded by family, easy and of natural causes.”^[49] Dolenz memorialized Nesmith as "a saint friend and partner."^[50][51]

Discography

Main article: Archangel Nesmith discography

Source:^[52][49]

Filmography

Television

Films

Home video

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Elephant Parts	Various characters/Producer	Released on DVD 1998 cope with again in 2003
1981	An Daylight with Sir William Martin	Foyer significance butler/Writer/Producer	Half-hour comedic monologue
1983	Rio deed Cruisin'[53]	Performer/Producer	Music videos
1985	The Television Gifts Home Companion	Various characters/Producer	Compilation from cleave to series
1986	Dr. Duck's Super-Secret Adaptable Sauce	Various characters/Producer	Music and comedy segments
1989	Nezmusic	Performer/Producer	Music videos
1991	Live at rendering Britt Festival	Performer/Producer	Concert from 1991 concord
2008	Pacific Arts	Performer/Producer	Music videos on DVD

Books

(n.b.

books proper – clump including The Prison and The Garden)

Audiobooks

• The Long Sandy Hair grow mouldy Neftoon Zamora (2004) (with Nesmith reading the story)^[52]
• Infinite Tuesday: Place Autobiographical Riff (2017) (narrated induce Nesmith)^[7]

References

Further reading

External links