Sam Shepard

Shepard currently lives with his common-law wife, actress Jessica Lange. Since then he has intermittently toured with his former bandmates and also played with his own bands The Peter Tork Project and Shoe Suede Blues as well as in solo performances and with touring partner James Lee Stanley. Among his other works for the stage are Curse of the Starving Class in 1978, True West in 1980 and A Lie of the Mind in 1985. Finally in 1980 he quit drinking and the next year gave up drugs, and in 1986 he rejoined fellow-Monkees Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz for a 20th anniversary reunion tour. Among his many works, Buried Child is considered one of his most prominent and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. After two years of the show, six albums, a movie, and a television special, Tork had had enough and quit the group, striking out on his own with a group called “Release.” This new band never achieved success, and problems with drugs including alcohol led to his leaving show business entirely for a few years while he taught school and coached basketball. Shepard is also a well respected actor of stage and motion pictures. On the television show, he was relegated to playing the “dummy” even though he was actually an intelligent, literate person.

His works are known for being especially frank and often absurd, and particularly for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. Tork was the most proficient musician of the four, and though the group did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, after that point he played keyboards, bass guitar, banjo, and other instruments on their recordings. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Tork got the job and became one of the four members of The Monkees, who ended up being both characters in a television sitcom and a band in their own right. Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, writer and actor. While there he befriended other up and coming musicians such as Stephen Stills, and after both moved to the Los Angeles area Stills suggested Tork audition for a new television series about four pop-rock musicians. 2004 The God of Hell. Tork dropped out of college and moved to New York City, where he became part of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village during the first half of the 1960‘s.

2000 The Late Henry Moss. and began studying piano at the age of nine, and showed an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars. 1993 Simpatico. He was born in Washington, D.C. 1985 A Lie of the Mind. Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor. 1980 True West.

1978 Curse of the Starving Class. 1979 Buried Child. 1971 Mad Dog Blues. 1969 Oh! Calcutta! (contributed sketches).

1967 La Turista. 1964 Cowboys.