As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just 1 to sing. Anyhow their 2 were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more 3 with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs 4 by other musicians.5, after a year or so in which they became more 6 about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they 7 their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more 8. The band 9 up in about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996,10which they celebrated their former time as a real band.