Five years ago this week, Monkees singer Davy Jones died of a sudden heart attack while tending to his horses at a farm in Indiantown, Florida. (He had the misfortune of dying on leap year day making it hard to mark the exact anniversary.)

Who quit the Monkees first?

In 1968, Tork was the first to leave the group. He later said he was disappointed the Monkees had failed to make rock music a priority over show business. The band broke up 18 months later. Post-Monkees, he “went through an identity crisis,” Tork told The Times in 1979.

When did Peter Tork get sober?

He served three months in 1972 for possession of hashish, and he didn’t get sober, he later said, until 1981. Eventually the Monkees also did something else that real dissolved rock bands do when the individuals are spinning their wheels with solo careers: They got back together for reunion tours.

What happened Peter Tork?

Peter Tork, a member of the 1960s moptopped TV rock quartet the Monkees, died Thursday. He was 77. His death was announced on his official Facebook page and website. “Peter succumbed to a 10 year bout with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer of the salivary glands,” it read.

Who is still alive from Monkees?

Now, 56 years after The Monkees premiered, sadly Dolenz is the only living member, following the death of Michael Nesmith in December 2021.