To make their record label happy, The Monkees had to make one tiny change to Stewart’s lyrics. The Monkees’s drummer Micky Dolenz states: “As we sing it, there’s a line ‘Now, you know how happy I can be.’ John wrote ‘Now, you know how funky I can be.’ But the music department refused to let us sing the word ‘funky.’ ” Funky’s original definition means oily, and greasy, and sexy – and the group’s music department felt it to be too dirty for the band’s reputation.
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