The Friday Song Returns!

As I was researching the swinging sixties,  I recalled this snippet from the film ‘Head’ directed by Bob Rafaelson. The Monkees copied everything the Beatles did, so when the Beatles made ‘Magical Mystery Tour’, a self-indulgent farrago that nevertheless spawned a staggering number of timeless hits, the Monkees made ‘Head’, which didn’t. Bits of it were fun, though, if you bear in mind that this pre-digital sequence with the British one, Davy Jones had to be shot multiple times and carefully matched shot for shot, so it’s not quite as easy as it looks. It’s a very early example of the music video. Jones died at 66.