Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb.

The band featured Tork alongside Michael Nesmith, a singer-songwriter who played guitar, and former child actors Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, who played the drums and sang lead, respectively. Like ...

The Monkees gave us some famous pop-rock songs. Despite this, Peter Tork said The Monkees’ Davy Jones wasn’t really a rock ‘n’ roll singer. Tork discussed what the Prefab Four would have been like if ...

The Monkees Peter Tork achieved many bucket list moments as a member of the iconic 1960s pop rock band. However, one of his most significant early achievements as a Monkees member involved getting ...

Peter Tork was positioned as the goofy one, the court jester of The Monkees. Director Bob Rafelson, one of the show’s creators, compared him to Harpo Marx. Ray Howard ASSOCIATED PRESS Peter Tork, a ...

Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb.

Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with the Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77. A Anita Gates Follow His son, ...

Peter Tork, a member of the Monkees, has died at 77. Tork had been battling adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer affecting his tongue, in 2009, his sister told the Washington Post. “The Monkees” TV ...