Peter Yarrow, one of many principal singers of the seminal Sixties folks trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died of bladder most cancers, The New York Occasions studies. He was 86 years outdated.
Yarrow was born in New York, in 1938, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He attended the town’s esteemed Excessive College of Music and Artwork (now often known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive College of Music & Artwork and Performing Arts) and Cornell College in Ithaca, New York. Yarrow returned to his native Manhattan, upon commencement from faculty, and enmeshed himself within the Greenwich Village folks scene. He was identified effectively sufficient to earn a spot on the 1960 Newport Folks Competition, 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 largely 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 almost yearly all through the Sixties, earlier than disbanding initially in 1970.
The group’s breakup was, partly, as a result of Yarrow’s actions with a 14-year-old lady. 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 finally reunited, and so they continued to carry out dwell till Mary Travers’ dying in 2009.
