Peter Tork, whose birth name is Peter Halsten Thorkelson, was born on February 13, 1942 in Lanham, Maryland. His father was an economics professor. He began taking muusic lessons when he was nine and was able at a young age to play the banjo, guitars, and piano. He left home to join the folk music scene in Greenwich Village in New York in the early 1960s. After he was suggested to television producers by his friend Stephen Stills, he auditioned for and got a part in the television series "The Monkees," which became a popular television sitcom as well as a popular music group. The group made six albums, and four of them became number one hits. After the Monkees split up, Peter worked with numerous musicians, including George Harrison. He has been married three times and has three children.
Regular Blogs
This is Peter's personal weblog and it touches on all sorts of topics, including an analysis of what they were doing in the show, which he says was the first time a television show about young men their ages did not have a "father figure" written in. He also writes about his grief at the passing of Davy Jones and his upcoming projects.
http://www.petertork.com/#notes-blog
Peter Tork's Beard Appreciation Blog
This weblog is devoted to Peter's beard and the defense of it, and the blogger shares numerous pictures of the Monkee with beards over the years.
http://beardypetertork.tumblr.com
The Monkees Live Almanac: Peter Tork
Topics here include various Monkees tours, album covers, bootlegs, and the show and also feature photographs of Peter and the Monkees going back to the 1960s.
http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/blog/category/peter%20tork
