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José Feliciano, the blind blues singer, knew a very poor Peter Tork

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 June 1967

NOW, LIFE is good for Monkee Peter Tork. He's got success, adulation, millions of fans — and money. But it isn't so many years since Peter knew the rough side of life and came dangerously near to outright poverty. He was a solitary figure, wandering aimlessly around the bohemian clubs of New York's Greenwich Village trying to eke out a living.

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