Peter Tork, the endearingly goofy musician and actor who came to fame in the 1960s as a member of the Zeitgeist-capturing television rock band the Monkees, has passed away at age 77. While no cause of ...

Peter Tork, the bassist for 1960s rock favorites the Monkees, is dead at 77. Tork's cause of death is not yet public, though he was diagnosed with a rare tongue cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, in ...

Peter Tork of The Monkees once clapped back at critics who insulted the talents of his music group. He responded to a negative statement by a competing group who claimed that “any four slobs off the ...

Peter spent several years playing banjo as a part of the musicians who worked in New York’s Greenwich Village club scene. There, he befriended other struggling musicians, José Feliciano and Stephen ...

Peter Tork, the bassist and wise-cracking character in the 1960s teen-pop sensation the Monkees, died today at the age of 77, a rep for the group confirmed to Variety. Speaking with the Washington ...

Peter Tork, one of the four lovable wisecracking musicians in The Monkees, died Feb. 21 at age 77. The Washington Post reports Tork’s death was confirmed by his sister, Anne Thorkelson. She didn’t ...

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.

Founding Monkees bassist / vocalist Peter Tork has died at 77 years old. No official cause of death has been announced, but Tork was a cancer survivor, being given the all-clear in 2012 after being ...

Peter Tork of the Monkees died on Feb. 21, his sister confirmed. He was 77. Born Peter Halsten Thorkelson in Washington, D.C., he was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the salivary glands in 2009. As he ...