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He completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, was trained as an aircraft mechanic at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, and then was permanently stationed at the Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base near Burns Flat, Oklahoma. Without graduating from high school, Nesmith enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1960.

When he was 15 he enrolled in the Dallas Theater Center teen program, where he was featured in several plays. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated in choral and drama activities during his years at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. He and his mother moved to Dallas to be closer to her parents, sister, aunts, and grandmother. He is an only child his parents, Warren Audrey Nesmith and Bette Nesmith Graham, divorced when their son was four. Nesmith was born in Houston, Texas in 1942. In 1981, Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his hour-long television show, Elephant Parts. He is also an executive producer of the cult film Repo Man (1984). He was a noted player of the twelve-string guitar, performing on custom-built twelve-string electric guitars with the Monkees (built by Gretsch) and various twelve-string acoustic models he played during his post-Monkees career. Nesmith's songwriting credits include 'Different Drum' (sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys).Īfter the break-up of the Monkees, Nesmith continued his successful songwriting and performing career, first with the seminal country rock group the First National Band, with whom he had a top-40 hit 'Joanne', and then as a solo artist.

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Robert Michael Nesmith (born December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968).