Peter, Paul and Mary singer Peter Yarrow is useless after a protracted battle with most cancers … TMZ has confirmed.
Peter died Tuesday at his residence on Manhattan’s Higher West Aspect … in accordance with his publicist, Ken Sunshine, who tells us Peter’s reason for demise was bladder most cancers.
We’re advised Peter was identified with most cancers 4 years in the past, and battled the illness till his demise.
Peter principally supplied tenor vocals for the well-known Nineteen Sixties folks trio, however he additionally sang lead vocals for a few of Peter, Paul and Mary’s largest hits … most notably, “Puff The Magic Dragon.”
He co-wrote ‘Puff’ in 1959 when he was learning at Cornell College … and he additionally supplied lead vocals on “The Nice Mandala” and “Day Is Executed,” which cracked the High 20 on the Billboard charts.
Peter even turned the timeless kids’s music into an image e-book for teenagers.
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The final time we noticed Peter, he advised our photog why ‘Puff’ was by no means a music about drug use and defined how the dragon bought its well-known identify.
Peter’s the second member of Peter, Paul and Mary to die … Mary Travers died manner again in September 2009, and now Paul Stookey is the final surviving member.
Peter was 86.
RIP