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    The Monkees’ Peter Tork dies at age 77

    Peter Tork, the endearingly goofy musician and actor who came to fame in the 1960s as a member of the Zeitgeist-capturing television rock band the Monkees, has passed away at age 77. While no cause of death has yet been confirmed, Tork was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, in 2009.

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    Head: The Incredible Story Of The Mad Film That Destroyed The Monkees

    The Beatles may have popularised the zany band movie in the 60s, but The Monkees killed the genre stone dead with ‘Head’: the weirdest pop movie ever made. You can accuse popular 60s beat combo The Monkees of many things – and people did – but they were never guilty of misleading fans as to the content of their 1968 movie, 'Head’.