Memorable scenes from The Monkees TV series is a tribute to Peter Tork who passed away on February 21, 2019. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day is from The Monkees debut album in 1966.

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Los Angeles Times: Peter Tork, a guitarist who became an overnight star in the late 1960s as one of the Monkees, the Los Angeles-based made-for-television rock band that was a pop-culture sensation, has died. He was 77.

“It is with beyond-heavy and broken hearts that we share the devastating news that our friend, mentor, teacher, and amazing soul, Peter Tork, has passed from this world,” Tork’s official Facebook account announced Thursday morning.

The post did not specify when or how he died, though Tork underwent surgery in 2009 to remove cancer from his tongue.

“There are no words right now … heart broken over the loss of my Monkee brother, Peter Tork,” his former band mate Micky Dolenz tweeted Thursday.

Tork was a 23-year-old folk guitarist fresh from Greenwich Village when TV executives cast him in the Monkees and promoted the quartet as America's answer to the Beatles, who had been collectively nicknamed the Fab Four.

Critics derided the Monkees as the “Prefab Four,” but the slapstick NBC comedy series that premiered in 1966 helped make them and their good-time pop a phenomenon.

The Monkees became the first video band, foreshadowing the craze for music television that emerged in the early 1980s. In its first season, the series won an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy.

At first, the Monkees were greatly aided by producer Don Kirshner's stable of songwriters, who penned original songs for the group. They included Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's chart-topping “Last Train to Clarksville” and Neil Diamond's “I'm a Believer.”

Reviled by critics at the time, the band later gained critical respect for its catchy, upbeat music. Only Tork and Michael Nesmith had a musical background when they joined the Monkees, which also featured actors Dolenz and Davy Jones. Backed at first by studio musicians, they eventually assumed more control over their music.

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