and covers of iconic Bob Dylan songs like Blowin' in the Wind and more. While Mary Travers is primarily known for her work with the folk trio, she also released five solo albums when Peter ...
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.
contributed to Bob Dylan's success, was 86 years old. Among Yarrow's most famous recordings, with his tenor voice alongside baritone Paul Stookey and contralto Mary Travers, are Puff the Magic ...
Peter Yarrow, the pioneering folk musician who found massive success as part of the musical trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, has died at the age of 86, according to the Associated Press.
Peter, Paul, and Mary broke up in 1970, after nine albums. Like his bandmates, Yarrow intended to pursue a solo career, but he had pleaded guilty to sexually molesting a 14-year-old fan the year prior.
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.
The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86.
Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in
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.
The trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon, scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
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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,