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==== 1990s reunions ==== {{refimprovesect|date=May 2025}} The Monkees' eleventh album ''[[Justus (album)|Justus]]'' was released in 1996. It was the first album since 1968 on which all four original members performed and produced, and it would be the last studio album in which all four Monkees directly participated (Jones's death would necessitate the use of archival recordings on later albums). ''Justus'' was produced by the Monkees, and all of its songs were written by one or two of the four Monkees. The album was recorded using only the four Monkees for all instruments and vocals, which was the inspiration for the album title and spelling (''Justus'' = Just Us). The trio of Dolenz, Jones, and Tork reunited again for a successful 30th anniversary tour of American amphitheaters in 1996. Nesmith joined them onstage in Los Angeles to promote the new songs from ''Justus''. For the first time since the brief 1986 reunion, Nesmith returned to the concert stage for a tour of the United Kingdom in 1997, highlighted by two sold-out concerts at [[Wembley Arena]] in [[Wembley Park]], London. In 1967, the Monkees had been the first group to headline on their own at the Empire Pool, as the Arena was then called.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Wembley Arena 1934-2004 The First Seventy Years|publisher=Wembley Arena|year=2004|page=18}}</ref> This was followed by a 1997 US tour featuring Tork, Jones, and Dolenz. The full quartet also appeared in an ABC television special entitled ''[[Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees]]'', which was written and directed by Nesmith and spoofed the original series that had made them famous. Following the UK tour, Nesmith declined to continue future performances with the Monkees.{{cn|date=May 2025}} Nesmith's departure from the tour was acrimonious. Jones was quoted by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as complaining that Nesmith "made a new album with us. He toured Great Britain with us. Then all of a sudden, he's not here. Later, I hear rumors he's writing a script for our next movie. Oh, really? That's bloody news to me. He's always been this aloof, inaccessible person... the fourth part of the jigsaw puzzle that never quite fit in."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626452/news?year=1997/|title=News for Michael Nesmith|publisher=IMDb|access-date=August 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016044911/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626452/news?year=1997%2F|archive-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
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