[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Fw: Entertainment Alert: Peter Tork, endearingly offbeat bassist and singer in the Monkees, dies at 77

 

Mr. Tork was 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. His death was confirmed by his sister, Anne Thorkelson, who did not say where or how he died. Mr. Tork was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer affecting his tongue, in 2009.

Democracy Dies in Darkness     Entertainment Alert Feb 21, 11:06 AM     Peter Tork, endearingly offbeat bassist and singer in the Monkees, dies at 77 Mr. Tork was 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. His death was confirmed by his sister, Anne Thorkelson, who did not say where or how he died. Mr. Tork was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer affecting his tongue, in 2009. Read more » Advertisement

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