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Happy birthday Carleton alum Peter Tork

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Today's music is "Step by Step" the title track from a new record by Peter Tork and his band Shoe Suede Blues.

Today is Tork's 72nd birthday. He is best known as a member of the Monkees and in these parts for attending Carleton College.

In 1979, a group of students felt his legacy at that institution was not being properly honored so they stole a portrait of Carleton's first president. It was only returned after the college agreed to officially rename a section of Carleton's student union "The Peter Tork Pinball Area." Alas, that pinball area has since been dismantled.