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, the bassist for The Monkees, has died at age 77. Tork's death was announced on his official Facebook page The REAL Peter Tork on Thursday. "It is with beyond-heavy and broken hearts that ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 series took on NBC's censors in 1967 during a Season 2 episode titled "The Devil and Peter Tork.” It was a rare example of a lighthearted sitcom openly testing broadcast standards in the late ...

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 ...