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By Ryan Patrick Jones
-American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who discovered fame with the 1960s folks music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday on the age of 86, his publicist stated.
Yarrow died at his New York house surrounded by household following a four-year battle with bladder most cancers, publicist Ken Sunshine stated in an announcement.
“Our fearless dragon is drained and has entered the final chapter of his magnificent life,” Yarrow’s daughter Bethany stated in an announcement offered by Sunshine. “The world is aware of Peter Yarrow the long-lasting folks activist, however the human being behind the legend is each bit as beneficiant, inventive, passionate, playful, and sensible as his lyrics counsel.”
Yarrow shaped Peter, Paul and Mary with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. The group helped popularize the early work of Bob Dylan and sang hits similar to “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” which Yarrow co-wrote.
The group’s model of Dylan’s “Blowin’ within the Wind” helped remodel the track right into a civil rights anthem and launched his music to a wider viewers. The group additionally scored large hits with “If I Had a Hammer” and “The place Have All of the Flowers Gone?,” co-written by folks artist Pete Seeger.
The group’s different hits included covers of Will Holt’s “Lemon Tree,” and John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Aircraft.”
The trio’s members had been famous for his or her political activism. They carried out on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and at demonstrations protesting the Vietnam Battle.
All through his life, Yarrow campaigned for social change and causes, together with equal rights, peace, the atmosphere, gender equality, homelessness, hospice care, public broadcasting and training.
In 1970, he served three months in jail after pleading responsible to expenses that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old lady who had gone to his resort room to hunt an autograph. Yarrow obtained a presidential pardon from President Jimmy Carter in 1981.
Stookey, the one dwelling member of the trio, praised Yarrow’s inventive affect and stated he would deeply miss his former bandmate.
“Being an solely baby, rising up with out siblings might have afforded me the complete consideration of my dad and mom, however with the formation of Peter, Paul and Mary, I out of the blue had a brother named Peter Yarrow,” Stookey stated.
“And whereas his consolation within the metropolis and my love of the nation tended to maintain us aside geographically, our completely different views had been celebrated usually in our friendship and our music,” he added.
Yarrow is survived by his spouse, Marybeth, son Christopher, daughter Bethany and granddaughter Valentina.
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