"For Pete's Sake" is a song written by Peter Tork and Joseph Richards, and recorded by The Monkees, with Micky Dolenz on lead vocals. It appeared on The Monkees' third album, Headquarters, and was used as the closing theme for the second season of their TV series.
The song is often mistakenly thought to be titled "In This Generation" or "This Generation," because that phrase is prominent in the song. The phrase "For Pete's Sake" does not appear anywhere in its lyrics.
Co-writer Peter Tork later said of the song "It was basically me playing these chords at my house, and my then-roommate, Joey Richards, was with me, and he threw in a couple of odds and ends of lines as I was going along. It just fell right into place", adding that " my first song on a Monkees' record and the first song that I had written".
Famous quotes containing the word sake:
“In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkeeper and his patrons on which was written “For God’s sake organize a temperance society.””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)