Peter Tork
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Peter Halsten Thorkelson (February 13, 1942 – February 21, 2019), better known as Peter Tork, was an American composer, singer, and actor best known as the Monkee's keyboardist and bass guitarist. He grew up in Connecticut and in the 1960s was a member of the Greenwich Village folk festival, and Stephen Stills, a respected musician, befriended Stephen Stills.
He was recruited by Stills for the musical television sitcom The Monkees and became a teenage idol from 1966-68.
Tork released his debut solo album Stranger Things Have Happened in 1994 and then performed with his blues band Shoe Suede Blues later.
Early life
Tork was born in 1942 at the former Doctors Hospital in Washington, D.C., although many news outlets mistakenly announce him as having been born in 1944 in New York City, according to the date and location of the Monkees television program. He was the son of Virginia Hope (née Straus) and Halsten John Thorkelson, an economics professor at the University of Connecticut. His paternal grandfather was of Norwegian descent, while his mother was of half German Jewish and half Irish origins.
Tork began studying piano at the age of nine, showing a natural talent for music by learning to play many different instruments, including the banjo, acoustic bass, and guitar. He attended Windham High School in Willimantic, Connecticut, and was a member of the first graduating class at E. O. Smith High School in Storrs, Connecticut. He attended Carleton College before he migrated to Greenwich Village, where he became a part of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the first half of the 1960s. While there, he befriended other up-and-coming artists, such as Stephen Stills.
Personal life
Tork lived in Mansfield, Connecticut, Connecticut, in later life. He was married four times, with marriages to Jody Babb, Reine Stewart, and Barbara Iannoli ending in divorce. He was married to Pamela Grapes from 2014 to his death. He had three children: a daughter, Hallie, with Stewart; a son, Ivannoli with Iannoli; and another daughter, Erica, who was in a previous marriage to Tammy Sestak. Tork was thought to have Asperger syndrome as an adult.
Tork revealed on his website on March 3, 2009 that he had been diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare, slow-growing form of head and neck cancer. Cancer had not spread outside of the initial site, according to a preliminary biopsy. Tork said, "It's a bad news/good news situation." "It's so unusual a combination (on the tongue) that there isn't a lot of expertise in the medical community about this particular combination." On the other hand, the type of cancer it is, never mind the location, is well-known, and the prognosis, I'm told, is favorable." To prevent the cancer from returning, Tork underwent radiation therapy.
Tork underwent surgery in New York City on March 4, 2009. Tork's spokesman announced on June 11, 2009, that his cancer had returned. Tork was said to be "shaken but not stirred" by the news, and that the doctors had a 80% chance of detecting and shrinking the new tumor.
"I recovered very quickly after my surgery," Obama said in July 2009, when doing radiation therapy, and I'm hoping that my healthier-than-average constitution would minimize the worst effects of radiation. My voice and enthusiasm are still in good shape, so I may as well take these gigs off." While receiving his medical attention, he continued to tour and perform.
On Facebook, Tork chronicled his cancer experience and urged his followers to support the Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation's academic programs. His cancer returned in 2018 in 2018, and he died at his Mansfield, Connecticut home on February 21, 2019, a decade after his diagnosis.
Nesmith made the following statement:
Later that day, Nesmith spoke about his often tense friendship with Tork. "I never liked Peter, he never liked me." So we had an uncomfortable truce between the two of us. As I could tell, he was very well liked among his peers. We didn't have a civil word to say to each other, but Nesmith admitted that there isn't one. "I burst into tears as he learned of Tork's death."What are you going to do?"
"There are no words right now, I'm devastated over the death of my Monkee brother, Peter Tork," Dolenz posted on Twitter.