Peter Yarrow, one of many principal singers of the seminal Nineteen Sixties folks trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died of bladder most cancers, The New York Times reviews. He was 86 years outdated.
Yarrow was born in New York, in 1938, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He attended town’s esteemed Excessive Faculty of Music and Artwork (now referred to as Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive Faculty of Music & Artwork and Performing Arts) and Cornell College in Ithaca, New York. Yarrow returned to his native Manhattan, upon commencement from school, and enmeshed himself within the Greenwich Village folks scene. He was identified properly sufficient to earn a spot on the 1960 Newport Folks Pageant, the place he met Albert Grossman, his eventual supervisor and the person who put collectively Peter, Paul and Mary.
Yarrow and his bandmates, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, launched their debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary, in 1962. The album, that includes principally folks requirements and Pete Seeger songs, discovered nice success. The trio’s second album, 1963’s Transferring, included Yarrow’s most well-known authentic composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon.” Peter, Paul and Mary continued apace with albums practically yearly all through the Nineteen Sixties, earlier than disbanding initially in 1970.
The group’s breakup was, partially, because of Yarrow’s actions with a 14-year-old woman. The singer was convicted, in 1970, of “taking indecent liberties with a minor” earlier than a live performance in Washington, D.C., in the summertime of 1969. He was sentenced to 3 months in jail, and Jimmy Carter granted Yarrow a presidential pardon, in 1981, the day earlier than he left workplace.
Peter, Paul and Mary in the end reunited, they usually continued to carry out reside till Mary Travers’ death in 2009.
