Peter Yarrow, who died Tuesday at age 86, has long denied that the famous song “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” was about drugs.
Whatever your preferred interpretation of the song is, however, what’s undeniable is that we wouldn’t have it, or that great Stiller-De Niro scene, without Peter Yarrow, one of the three singer-songwriters of the famed Peter,
Peter Yarrow, one of three singers in the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. He was 86. Yarrow passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 7, after a four-year battle with bladder cancer, his publicist confirmed to The Guardian.
After a Peter, Paul and Mary concert in 1980 at the now-defunct Front Row Theater in Highland Heights, Chuck Fink waited patiently with fans for the folk group to sign
Peter Yarrow, a member of the influential trio Peter ... in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” at the 1963 March on Washington. And they appeared at countless antiwar demonstrations, which ...
perhaps Peter was both of the brothers I never had … and I shall deeply miss both of him." Yarrow kept a relatively low profile later in life, following his 1970 conviction for molesting a 14-year-old girl in a Washington D.C. hotel room in 1969.
Peter Yarrow, who has died aged 86, was the Peter in Peter, Paul and Mary, the American singing trio which took folk music into the commercial mainstream in the 1960s.
Francine Wheeler, who lost her son in 2012, reflects on the lessons learned from one of the stars of Peter, Paul and Mary. “I never stopped singing and that was one of the lessons that Peter taught me,
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter ... "It happened when I was just an innocent child," Winter told The Washington Post in an interview published in 2021. "I didn't know anything.
Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-writer of 'Puff,the Magic Dragon' has died.
Peter Yarrow -- one third of the beloved folk trio Peter ... Paul and Mary performed the song at the 1963 civil rights March on Washington, cementing its place in the folk activist canon. Their version of the progressive protest song "If I Had a Hammer ...
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86 after battling bladder cancer.