Over the next 25 years, she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she sold to Gillette in 1979 for $48 million. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid known commercially as Liquid Paper. She took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphic design, eventually attaining the position of executive secretary at Texas Bank and Trust. Nesmith and his mother moved to Dallas to be closer to her family. His mother married Robert Graham in 1962, and they remained married until 1975. He was an only child his parents Warren and Bette Nesmith (née McMurray) divorced when he 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 was also an executive producer of the film Repo Man (1984). He played a 12-string guitar, performing on a custom-built Gretsch electric during his time with the Monkees and various 12-string acoustic models during his post-Monkees career. Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Different Drum", which became a hit for Linda Ronstadt and 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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He was best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968).
Robert Michael Nesmith (Decem– December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist.
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