(Los Angeles) Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one of the members of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk trio whose passionate harmonies captivated millions as they raised their voices in in favor of civil rights and against the war, died. He was 86 years old.
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John Rogers
Associated Press
Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, Puff the Magic Dragondied Tuesday in New York, announced publicist Ken Sunshine. Yarrow had been battling bladder cancer for four years.
During an incredible run of hits spanning the 1960s, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six chart-topping titles. top 10 on Billboard, two number one albums and have won five Grammy awards.
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Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, January 30, 1980
They also made Bob Dylan known by transforming two of his songs, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right et Blowin’in the Windsuccessful at top 10 of the Billboard, thus contributing to the renaissance of American folk music.
They interpreted Blowin’in the Wind during the 1963 March on Washington, during which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech I Have a Dream.
After an eight-year hiatus to pursue a solo career, the trio reunited in 1978 for a Survival Sundayan anti-nuclear concert organized by Yarrow in Los Angeles. They remained together until Mary Travers’ death in 2009. After her death, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform separately and together.
John Rogers, the primary author of this article, retired from The Associated Press in 2021.
