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“I have a feeling that Peter Tork folk-singer would have been a revelation.“ - article by Keith Altham, New Musical Express (July 1, 1967)
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“I have a feeling that Peter Tork folk-singer would have been a revelation.“ - article by Keith Altham, New Musical Express (July 1, 1967)
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
“Peter Tork endeared himself to everyone [in London] by being funny and drily witty and genuinely kind.” - from an article by Trudy More, Teen Life (December 1967)
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“Peter Tork endeared himself to everyone [in London] by being funny and drily witty and genuinely kind.” - from an article by Trudy More, Teen Life (December 1967)
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
The Wings episode “She’s Gotta Have It,” guest starring Peter Tork, originally aired on this day in 1995.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Wings episode “She’s Gotta Have It,” guest starring Peter Tork, originally aired on this day in 1995.
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“[At the newly opened shop, Peter] smiled and wished me luck, and I realized how much I love him because he always tries to encourage me and inspire me.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (June 1968)
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“[At the newly opened shop, Peter] smiled and wished me luck, and I realized how much I love him because he always tries to encourage me and inspire me.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (June 1968)
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
“Peter Tork is a pretty funny boy on television and a wonderful actor, but in real life he is beautiful, dreamy, intelligent, and tremendously knowledgeable about everything and very warm and understanding.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (March 1968)
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Peter Tork is a pretty funny boy on television and a wonderful actor, but in real life he is beautiful, dreamy, intelligent, and tremendously knowledgeable about everything and very warm and understanding.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (March 1968)
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
“Good Clean Fun” (live in 1987).
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Good Clean Fun” (live in 1987).
A bit of Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley live in 1997; footage courtesy of derekup.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A bit of Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley live in 1997; footage courtesy of derekup.
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“I love music. The craft of it remains endlessly fascinating to me. There isn’t much that I want to do other than music. I love a good joke. I love to laugh. Humor is an important part of music.” - Peter, MLive (August 21, 2012)
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🎥 from 1988
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🎥 from 1988
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“I love music. The craft of it remains endlessly fascinating to me. There isn’t much that I want to do other than music. I love a good joke. I love to laugh. Humor is an important part of music.” - Peter, MLive (August 21, 2012)
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🎥 from 1988
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🎥 from 1988
“Peter’s about the most good natured person I’ve ever seen. […] [H]e never gets mad when you kid him a lot.” - Micky Dolenz, Flip (September 1967)
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November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Peter’s about the most good natured person I’ve ever seen. […] [H]e never gets mad when you kid him a lot.” - Micky Dolenz, Flip (September 1967)
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“[Peter is] the ‘flower child’ of the quartet — hip to love, peace, beauty and all that (not that the others are in favor of hate, war and ugliness, but you see what I mean).” - Tracy Thomas, Flip (September 1967)
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Photo by Dan Wynn
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“[Peter is] the ‘flower child’ of the quartet — hip to love, peace, beauty and all that (not that the others are in favor of hate, war and ugliness, but you see what I mean).” - Tracy Thomas, Flip (September 1967)
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Photo by Dan Wynn
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Happy anniversary to Head! The movie premiered on this day in 1968.
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy anniversary to Head! The movie premiered on this day in 1968.
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
Q: “Why did you leave the Monkees?”
Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Q: “Why did you leave the Monkees?”
Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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“[George Harrison] said: ‘I’m working on a soundtrack album, I’d love to have you play a little banjo.’” - Peter Tork, The Guardian (March 23, 2017)
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“[George Harrison] said: ‘I’m working on a soundtrack album, I’d love to have you play a little banjo.’” - Peter Tork, The Guardian (March 23, 2017)
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
“[The banjo is] a facet of me that I would like to flower — though I don’t know when it will.” - Peter, Disc and Music Echo (January 13, 1968)
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“[The banjo is] a facet of me that I would like to flower — though I don’t know when it will.” - Peter, Disc and Music Echo (January 13, 1968)
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
“[Reporters] started asking [Peter] about the movie, ‘Head.’
‘It could really be a smash or it could really go bad-phoooo-blup!’ he explained.” - The Hatchet (November 18, 1968)
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Pictured: promoting Head, 1968
‘It could really be a smash or it could really go bad-phoooo-blup!’ he explained.” - The Hatchet (November 18, 1968)
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Pictured: promoting Head, 1968
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“[Reporters] started asking [Peter] about the movie, ‘Head.’
‘It could really be a smash or it could really go bad-phoooo-blup!’ he explained.” - The Hatchet (November 18, 1968)
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Pictured: promoting Head, 1968
‘It could really be a smash or it could really go bad-phoooo-blup!’ he explained.” - The Hatchet (November 18, 1968)
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Pictured: promoting Head, 1968
“Tork later confided to his brother Nick that [James Lee] Stanley had given him his life back. ‘I wept when I heard that,’ Stanley says (he learned of this following Tork’s death).” - Stranger Things Have Happened 2020 reissue liner notes
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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Tork later confided to his brother Nick that [James Lee] Stanley had given him his life back. ‘I wept when I heard that,’ Stanley says (he learned of this following Tork’s death).” - Stranger Things Have Happened 2020 reissue liner notes
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Happy Halloween!
Clip from “Card Carrying Red Shoes.”
Clip from “Card Carrying Red Shoes.”
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy Halloween!
Clip from “Card Carrying Red Shoes.”
Clip from “Card Carrying Red Shoes.”
“I believe that you can tell more about people by the way they looking walking away from you than you can by what they say.” - Peter Tork, Seventeen Magazine (Aug. 1967)
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Photos by Gene Trindl (?)
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Photos by Gene Trindl (?)
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“I believe that you can tell more about people by the way they looking walking away from you than you can by what they say.” - Peter Tork, Seventeen Magazine (Aug. 1967)
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Photos by Gene Trindl (?)
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Photos by Gene Trindl (?)
“I wrote a set of chords once [in college] and thought, 'Gosh, this is great.’ I couldn’t think of anything to do with them. A couple years later I wrote ‘Can You Dig It,’ to those chords.” - Peter, Shanley On Music (2014)
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October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“I wrote a set of chords once [in college] and thought, 'Gosh, this is great.’ I couldn’t think of anything to do with them. A couple years later I wrote ‘Can You Dig It,’ to those chords.” - Peter, Shanley On Music (2014)
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“I knew Peter back in the 70's. […] He was a loving, fun guy who was extremely talented. I'm so glad I got to know him and will surely miss his endearing smile.” - Penny Andros, obits dot mlive dot com (2019)
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October 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“I knew Peter back in the 70's. […] He was a loving, fun guy who was extremely talented. I'm so glad I got to know him and will surely miss his endearing smile.” - Penny Andros, obits dot mlive dot com (2019)
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“[Peter’s] really a genius, a prolific musician — he plays about seven instruments.” - Micky Dolenz, Record Mirror (February 11, 1967)
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🎥: Peter Tork, multi-instrumentalist: an edit.
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🎥: Peter Tork, multi-instrumentalist: an edit.
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“[Peter’s] really a genius, a prolific musician — he plays about seven instruments.” - Micky Dolenz, Record Mirror (February 11, 1967)
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🎥: Peter Tork, multi-instrumentalist: an edit.
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🎥: Peter Tork, multi-instrumentalist: an edit.
“You know who was good? Peter Tork was an amazing multi-instrumentalist. I had no idea! […] Peter was great. I was really, really taken with him. He was full of life and had loads of ideas.” - Roger Bechirian, Tape Op (July/August 2012)
Photo courtesy of Roger Bechirian.
Photo courtesy of Roger Bechirian.
October 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“You know who was good? Peter Tork was an amazing multi-instrumentalist. I had no idea! […] Peter was great. I was really, really taken with him. He was full of life and had loads of ideas.” - Roger Bechirian, Tape Op (July/August 2012)
Photo courtesy of Roger Bechirian.
Photo courtesy of Roger Bechirian.
Autumn storm here right now, so a throwback to sunnier times with this older post:
“Peter signed: ‘Love, Peter Tork’ and drew a flower.
‘I dig flowers,’ he said. ‘I always put a flower after my autograph, because it’s more gentle that way.’” - The Des Moines Register (1967)
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Photo by Micky Dolenz
‘I dig flowers,’ he said. ‘I always put a flower after my autograph, because it’s more gentle that way.’” - The Des Moines Register (1967)
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Photo by Micky Dolenz
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Autumn storm here right now, so a throwback to sunnier times with this older post:
“[Peter] explains that he has learned several new songs from a New York buddy who has been living at his house, and he proceeds to play and sing them for you and Mike.” - article by David Pearl, 16 Magazine (January 1968)
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October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“[Peter] explains that he has learned several new songs from a New York buddy who has been living at his house, and he proceeds to play and sing them for you and Mike.” - article by David Pearl, 16 Magazine (January 1968)
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Clip from Peter’s guest co-hosting spot (with Rosie O’Donnell) on VH-1 in 1988.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Clip from Peter’s guest co-hosting spot (with Rosie O’Donnell) on VH-1 in 1988.
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