The 1968 film Head was a watershed moment in The Monkees’ career. The film depicted a series of vignettes amounting to a loosely interpretive message by the band signaling the end of their pop star ...

Peter Tork resented the idea that the member of The Monkees were disposable. He felt the band’s producers got good performers for the job although they didn’t want “professionals.” Each member of the ...

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. His son, Ivan Iannoli, said the ...

Whenever “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees” reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap ...

Peter Tork, a member of The Monkees, has died aged 77, according to his official Facebook page. The American musician had been diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer in 2009. A post on his ...

Peter Tork, the man best known as a member of the popular 60s band The Monkees, has died. He was 77. Tork’s official Facebook page announced his death Thursday morning. “It is with beyond-heavy and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Tork, a talented singer-songwriter and instrumentalist whose musical skills were often overshadowed by his role as the goofy, lovable bass guitarist in the made-fortelevision ...