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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 14h

Q: “What is your favorite hour of the day?”
Peter Tork: “The one I’m enjoying at the present moment.” - Tiger Beat (September 1968)

Photo by Nurit Wilde

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 1d

“Music is sort of my life. [Without] it there wouldn’t be much sense to anything.” - Peter Tork, Tiger Beat (1967)

“I love music. The craft of it remains endlessly fascinating to me.” - Peter, MLive (2012)

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Photos by Henry Diltz (?) & Jennifer Denham

Color photo of a smiling Peter Tork onstage in 1967. Photo by Henry Diltz (?).

Color photo of a smiling Peter Tork onstage in 2014. Photo by Jennifer Denham.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 2d

“We spent some time on an Indian reservation, where The Buffalo Springfield were appearing in their concert. It was a gas up there, and I bought so many ‘peace’ beads, head-bands, blankets, jackets etc.” - Peter Tork, Fabulous 208 (1967)

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Color photo of The Monkees during their 1968 tour, with Peter sporting a colorful shirt and what looks like a braided belt.

Black and white photo of Peter Tork plus banjo in the studio. He is pictured wearing a headband and a beaded necklace.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 3d

What’s your Peter on the set of Head (1968) mood today? ;)

A collage of Peter Tork’s various facial expressions on the set of The Monkees’ movie Head (1968).

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 4d

“I’m shy… I’ve spent years and years learning — because being shy was not a good thing so I… this is all like, you know, a left-hander writing with his right hand.” - Peter Tork, GOLD 104.5 (1999)

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Black and white photo of Peter Tork reclining in what looks like a hotel room during The Monkees’ 1967 summer tour.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 5d

“Of all four Monkees, Peter’s onscreen persona was the least like his real self. The ‘dumb’ (albeit bighearted) Monkee is actually soft-spoken and a bit on the philosophical side with a dry sense of humor. He *thinks* about every word he says.” - Bill Holdship, Creem Presents… The Monkees (1987)

Color photo of a pensive Peter Tork on the set of The Monkees, circa January 1967.

Color photo of a smiling Peter Tork on the set of The Monkees, circa January 1967.

Black and white backlit photo of Peter Tork on the set of The Monkees, circa January 1967.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 6d

“‘…for me finally the point of the movie is the Monkees never get out,’ […]
So how would a Peter Tork cut of Head end?
‘There might have been a scene where we get out,’ he says wistfully. ‘We jump in the water and get away.’” - The Guardian (2011)

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Color photo of The Monkees filming the movie Head (1968).

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 7d

“After a while it suddenly seems like we have been looking through a fish tank, and on the other side is this very, very pretty woman who kisses each one of us...” - Peter, interviewed by Bruce Pollock for When The Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960s (1984)

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Color photo of Peter Tork and Mimi Machu (credited as I.J. Jefferson) kissing in the 1968 movie Head.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 8d

“I did have three parts in this film [Head]. I was known as ‘The Jumper.’” - June Fairchild, in her draft for a planned book (Catch A Fallen Star), published on at BarrSam.com

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Peter Tork and June Fairchild on the set of The Monkees’ movie Head, 1968.

Peter Tork, Davy Jones, June Fairchild and other dancers on the set of The Monkees’ movie Head, 1968.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 9d

“So we [Stills and Ron Long] were booked into the [Golden] Bear [in ‘65] and we were really terrible for the whole gig except for two nights. Those two nights Peter [Tork] got up and played piano with us.” - Stephen Stills, Stephen Stills: Change Partners: The Definitive Biography

Stephen Stills and Peter Tork, early 1960s; screenshot from Peter’s My Generation interview.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 10d

“[Post-Monkees] I went to Marin County to try to recapture some of my Greenwich-Village-days happiness, and I did. […] I was very lucky, there was a lovely scene in Fairfax, Marin County.” - Peter Tork, GOLD 104.5 (1999)

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Photo by Kenny Lieu

Black and white photo of a bearded, smiling Peter Tork in 1970. Photo by Kenny Lieu for Tiger Beat.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 11d

Q: “Describe Peter.”
Barbara Iannoli: “He’s slender, excitable, intense, emotional, very bright.” - interview by Barbara Ehm for Monkee Business Fanzine (undated clipping, circa 1981)

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Photo courtesy of Rikizo Komori

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 12d

“And he’s a genius, the man is a genius at music... Peter was — and is — a genius in music.” - Micky Dolenz, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (1977)

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Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I’m Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

Black and white photo of Peter Tork, 1967. Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I’m Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 13d

Q. “Would you call yourself a hippie?”
A. “I call myself Peter Tork. Other than that I don’t label who I am or what I am.” - Monkee Spectacular (June 1968)

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Black and white photo of a bearded Peter Tork, late 1960s.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 14d

“Peter signed: ‘Love, Peter Tork’ and drew a flower.
‘I dig flowers,’ he said. ‘I always put a flower after my autograph, because it’s more gentle that way.’” - The Des Moines Register (1967)

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Photo by Micky Dolenz

Color photo of smiling Peter Tork after a dive into a pool at a hotel during The Monkees’ 1967 summer tour. Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I’m Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 15d

“Peter is very idealistic, very enthusiastic and artistic.” - Micky Dolenz, Australian TV Week (September 1968)

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Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I’m Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

Color photo of Peter Tork smiling onstage as he performs. Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I’m Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 16d

“Tork’s three outstanding qualities are his fine musicianship, his good looks, and his *groooovy* personality.” - Davy Jones, 16 Magazine’s The Monkees: Here We Are (1967)

Photo by Davy Jones

Color Polaroid photo of Peter Tork by a pool during The Monkees’ 1967 summer tour. Photo by Davy Jones.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 17d

Q: “At what times do you feel that there’s hope for the human race?”
Peter Tork: “All the time. Are you kidding? What’s the alternative?” - Together, November/December 2010

Screenshot of Peter Tork smiling in 2011.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 18d

“[T]o Peter, music is just about everything. And even his private moments are spent creating sounds.” - from an undated and unnamed clipping from a teen magazine, perhaps 16 Magazine (1968)

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Photo by Nurit Wilde

Color photo of Peter Tork intently playing the guitar. Photo by Nurit Wilde.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 19d

“…Finding a relationship—a REAL relationship—is maybe therefore harder for celebrity figures than it is for normal types.” - Peter Tork, Ask Peter Tork (2008)

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Peter Tork and some young ladies on the set of The Monkees.

Peter Tork and fans, late 1980s/early 1990s.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 20d

“[T]he notion I was the only musician is one of those rumors that got started and won’t stop — but it was not true. Peter was a more accomplished player than I by an order of magnitude, Micky and Davy played and sang and danced and understood music.” - Michael Nesmith, Rolling Stone (2012)

The Monkees onstage at the Cow Palace, January 22, 1967. Photo by Jim Marshall.

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 21d

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This Lovin’ Time @thislovintime.bsky.social · 21d

“Working with these kids is a ball. I have teen-agers of my own, so their antics don’t bother me a bit. […]
They’re the greatest. Sure they’re unconventional. But because they’re unconventional, they’re theatrically exciting.” - Henry Corden (a.k.a. Mr. Babbitt), Catholic Miss (April 1967)

Screenshot of The Monkees and Henry Corden, in the episode “The Chaperone.”

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