Obituaries
Peter Tork, a guitarist who became an overnight star in the late 1960s as one of the Monkees, the made-for-television rock band that was a pop-culture sensation, has died.
Feb. 21, 2019
Television
The Monkees, a pop band born from a 1960s situation comedy, were always as culturally authentic to me as the Beatles and the Marx Brothers, whom, in the spirit of “A Hard Day’s Night,” they were created to conflate.
Feb. 22, 2019
Music
Early on in his life as one-fourth of the Monkees, Peter Tork learned a cruel truth about the gargantuan gulf between image and reality in Hollywood.
In one of his best musical moments as a Monkee, Peter Tork wrote and sang a song called “Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?”
Oct. 20, 1992
Monkees’ Peter Tork brings blues band to Long Beach festival
June 22, 2013
What’s a Monkee doing on the lineup at a blues festival? Singing the blues, of course.
They may look like the Monkees. They may act like the Monkees.
Nov. 12, 1995
Peter Tork says Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner is blocking the group’s induction to the Cleveland museum.
May 4, 2007
Two recent pop reissues have an Orange County connection.
Oct. 15, 1994
The Monkees will be monkeying around again this summer, as the surviving three members of the group undertake a more extensive tour following last fall’s dozen sold-out shows.
April 30, 2013