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NEW YORK – Peter Tork, the offbeat folk artist who made himself famous with the 1960s pop band, the Monkees, has died, his team said Thursday. He was 77 years old.
"It is with heartbreaking and heavy hearts that we share the terrible news that our friend, mentor, teacher and our incredible soul, Peter Tork, has pbaded from this world," said the team on its official Facebook page, without specify cause of death.
In 2009, the musician was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare form of cancer that affected his tongue.
"There are no words at the moment … heartbroken by the loss of my brother Monkee," tweeted drummer-singer Micky Dolenz, one of the group's two surviving members.
The Monkees were a clbadic group consisting of two musicians, whose group of four musicians was first conceived in 1965 and won two Emmy Awards. In 1967, he sold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Songs like "Daydream Believer", "I'm Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville" all feature at the top of the charts – but the sneaky quartet draws criticism from some who see them as a Beatles scam, are thrown on the scene of American pop culture a few years ago.
The band released nine albums between 1966 and 1970, after which they dissolved, but they have banded together in various combinations over the years.
"As I write this, my tears flow and my heart is broken," wrote group member Michael Nesmith.
"I can only pray that his songs will reach the heights that can elevate us and that our childhood lives forever – that special spark that was the Monkees'."
Tork, the band's keyboardist and bbadist, created a personality as an adorable "dummy" of the Monkeys – but later began to resent the band as his musical ambitions grew.
Born in Washington on February 13, 1942, Tork took piano lessons and studied French horn.
After being bitten in the folk scene of Greenwich Village in New York, Tork was a multi-instrumentalist who became the first member to leave the Monkees, feeling artistically restrained.
Over the decades that followed, he struggled to resume a career in music, briefly switching to marijuana possession, working as a teacher and waiter, and battling alcoholism before overcoming his addiction in years. 1980.
After MTV began replaying episodes of Monkees, they discovered a resurgence in the late 1980s, leading to a number of sometimes partial meeting tours.
Despite rumors of impulses among the group members, Tork insisted on their chemical composition.
"I refute any claim that four men could have done what we did," he said in 2013 in an interview with Guitar World. "We could not have chosen us, that would not have stolen."
"But under the circumstances, they have the right guys."
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