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Micky Dolenz had a grand, pop-sensible malleability that allowed him to go pseudo-punk on “Steppin’ Stone,” cheese-Louise on “I’m a Believer,” breezy commentator on “Pleasant Valley Sunday” and restrained high-harmonizer on “Shades of Gray.” And he demonstrated a fine playfulness in his songwriting: 1969’s “Mommy and Daddy” was an accusatory treatise on parental responsibility from someone still seen as a teenybopper role model. The released version was startling enough in its commentary on American adults’ treatment of Native Americans, pharmaceuticals and the soldiers in Vietnam, but an unreleased take that surfaced several years later is downright seditious, with Dolenz tackling the JFK conspiracy, suicide, pill popping and careless parenting, all in under two minutes, chanting gleefully at the close, “They’re all living a lie!”