Published February 21. 2019 03:18PM
This July 6, 1967, file photo shows, from left, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith, David Jones and Micky Dolenz of the musical group The Monkees at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York. Tork, who rocketed to teen idol fame in 1965 playing the lovably clueless bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock band The Monkees, died Thursday of complications related to cancer, according to his son Ivan Iannoli. He was 77. AP PHOTO/RAY HOWARD, FILE
This July 6, 1967, file photo shows, from left, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith, David Jones and Micky Dolenz of the musical group The Monkees at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York. Tork, who rocketed to teen idol fame in 1965 playing the lovably clueless bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock band The Monkees, died Thursday of complications related to cancer, according to his son Ivan Iannoli. He was 77. AP PHOTO/RAY HOWARD, FILE