Nesmith - like his mother - showed a flair for entrepreneurship, launching the country record label Countryside in 1972, when he was 29, four years after “The Monkees Show” was canceled. When it came to her company, McMurray was all business, even with her own son. This invention became Liquid Paper, and it made McMurray a wealthy woman. As electric typewriters came into vogue, making typing mistakes messier to correct, she created a paint at home that matched the white of typing paper and began lightly touching up her errors at work. When Nesmith was 12, his mom worked as a secretary but enjoyed painting on the side. “I felt like I was a nuisance who was along for the ride with a single woman,” he writes. Nesmith was an only child, and his relationship with his mom, Bette McMurray, was complicated. Here are just three of the book’s revelations about the quietest member of the Prefab Four: His mother invented Liquid Paper - then refused to work with him “But his new memoir, “ Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff” (Crown Archetype), shows how Nesmith, a veteran musician hired to play a fake one, became a genuine business success. Michael Nesmith is best known as one of the Monkees, a manufactured rock group that struggled to be accepted as a real band. Thanks to Michael Nesmith for turning the Monkees into a classic Iconic New Hollywood era director dead at 89 The Monkees' Micky Dolenz sues to get secret FBI files on his '60s band
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