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American actor and musician Peter Tork has died at the age of 77. Tork was best known as keyboardist and bassist of the Beatles-parody made-for-television band The Monkees. This is the second Monkees to die (Davy Jones had a heart attack and died in February 2012).
We saw Tork and fellow Monkees, Micky Dolenz, at Wizard World Minneapolis a few years ago, and heard them explain how they wanted to write and play music (as the Monkees), but the show’s producers would not allow it… instead relying on seasoned session musicians. Still, that didn’t stop Tork from writing and playing instruments on some songs.
What we reported in May 2017: One of the thing that came out of the discussion was that the actors were musicians (except for Dolenz, but he would later learn), and begged the studio to let them write and play their own songs. The filming schedule was grueling and that also left little or no time to create original music.”
Also, just quickly, Country Music Hall of Fame member Fred Foster (founder of Monument Records and publishing company Combine Music), just passed away on February 20, 2019. He was 87.
Foster is credited as producer behind all of Roy Orbison’s biggest hits (including “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “Only the Lonely”, and “Crying”). He’s also known for producing some major hits for Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Billy Grammer, Ray Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, the list goes on and on…
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.
February (47)
[21 Feb 2019] Peter Tork (American actor, singer, and musician for The Monkees), 77, complications of adenoid cystic carcinoma
[20 Feb 2019] Dominick Argento (American composer), 91
[20 Feb 2019] Fred Foster (American Hall of Fame record producer and songwriter), 87
[20 Feb 2019] Gerard Koerts (Dutch musician for Earth and Fire), 71
[19 Feb 2019] Vicious (American rapper), 51, cancer
[19 Feb 2019] Artie Wayne (American musician, songwriter and record producer), 77
[18 Feb 2019] Diana Chang Chung-wen (Hong Kong actress and singer of Shaw Brothers films), 82
[17 Feb 2019] Ethel Ennis (American jazz musician), 86, stroke
[17 Feb 2019] Šaban Šaulić (Serbian pop-folk singer), 67, traffic collision
[15 Feb 2019] Kofi Burbridge (American rock multi-instrumentalist for Tedeschi Trucks Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit), 57
[14 Feb 2019] Sergei Zakharov (Russian singer), 68
[13 Feb 2019] Carl Petter (Danish singer), 71
[13 Feb 2019] Marisa Solinas (Italian singer and actress for Boccaccio '70, Almost Blue), 79
[13 Feb 2019] Hans Stadlmair (Austrian conductor), 89
[13 Feb 2019] Connie Jones (American jazz trumpeter), 84
[13 Feb 2019] Willy Lambregt (Belgian rock musician for The Scabs), 59, cancer
[13 Feb 2019] Arif Şirin (Turkish singer and composer), 69, throat cancer
[12 Feb 2019] Dadhi Gelan (Ethiopian singer), accidental shooting
[12 Feb 2019] Deise Cipriano (Brazilian singer for Fat Family), 39, liver cancer
[12 Feb 2019] Joe Hardy (American music producer for ZZ Top and engineer for Ardent Studios), 66
[12 Feb 2019] Olli Lindholm (Finnish singer and guitarist for Appendix, Yö), 54
[11 Feb 2019] Harvey Scales (American soul singer and songwriter), 76, kidney failure and pneumonia
[10 Feb 2019] Juanjo Domínguez (Argentine musician), 67
[09 Feb 2019] Guy Webster (American celebrity photographer for The Doors, The Beach Boys), 79, complications from diabetes and liver cancer
[09 Feb 2019] Phil Western (Canadian electronic musician), 47
[09 Feb 2019] Bruce Williams (American Hall of Fame radio host for WCTC), 86
[09 Feb 2019] Cadet (British rap artist), 28, traffic collision
[08 Feb 2019] Sali Sidibé (Malian composer and singer), 59
[07 Feb 2019] Legarda (Colombian reggaeton musician), 29, shot
[07 Feb 2019] Albert Finney (English actor, inspired The Smiths), 82, chest infection
[06 Feb 2019] Kyle Yorlets (American musician for Carverton), 24, shot
[06 Feb 2019] Gerald English (British tenor), 93
[06 Feb 2019] Carlos Fernando Nogueira (Brazilian singer, architect and graphic designer), 60
[05 Feb 2019] George Klein (American disc jockey for WLFP), 83, complications from dementia
[04 Feb 2019] Giampiero Artegiani (Italian singer-songwriter), 63
[04 Feb 2019] Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (Russian composer), 82
[04 Feb 2019] Zbigniew Penherski (Polish composer), 84
[04 Feb 2019] Kulyush Sakieva (Kazakh singer and actress), 98
[04 Feb 2019] Matti Nykänen (Finnish ski jumper and singer), 55
[04 Feb 2019] Izzy Young (American-Swedish folklorist and author and music personality for musikpersonlighet), 90
[03 Feb 2019] Peter Posa (New Zealand guitarist), 77
[03 Feb 2019] Detsl (Russian hip hop artist), 35, heart attack
[02 Feb 2019] Tim Landers (American rock guitarist and singer for Transit)
[02 Feb 2019] Bill Sims (American blues musician), 69
[01 Feb 2019] Alex Brown (American painter and punk rock musician for Gorilla Biscuits), 52, brain aneurysm
[01 Feb 2019] Ayub Ogada (Kenyan musician), 63
[01 Feb 2019] Spatsz (French musician for KaS Product), 61
We saw Tork and fellow Monkees, Micky Dolenz, at Wizard World Minneapolis a few years ago, and heard them explain how they wanted to write and play music (as the Monkees), but the show’s producers would not allow it… instead relying on seasoned session musicians. Still, that didn’t stop Tork from writing and playing instruments on some songs.
What we reported in May 2017: One of the thing that came out of the discussion was that the actors were musicians (except for Dolenz, but he would later learn), and begged the studio to let them write and play their own songs. The filming schedule was grueling and that also left little or no time to create original music.”
Also, just quickly, Country Music Hall of Fame member Fred Foster (founder of Monument Records and publishing company Combine Music), just passed away on February 20, 2019. He was 87.
Foster is credited as producer behind all of Roy Orbison’s biggest hits (including “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “Only the Lonely”, and “Crying”). He’s also known for producing some major hits for Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Billy Grammer, Ray Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, the list goes on and on…
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.
February (47)
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