As a general rule, a band may start as a group of high-school students     1     (share) the same interest in music. They may first practise their music in someone’s house. And then the musicians may get the chance to give     2     (perform) in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid     3     cash. As time goes by, they gradually become known to the audience and some even make records!

The Monkees,     4    , started in a different way. Of     5     (it) four members, only one was good enough and the other three just pretended     6     (sing) during the broadcasts. To be honest, it couldn’t     7     (call) a real band in the beginning. Anyhow, they succeeded and became so popular     8     their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them.     9     (fortunate), the Monkees broke up about 1970. But they reunited in the mid-1980s and produced a new record in 1996,     10     was to celebrate their former happy time.