Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary has died at 86 : NPR

People singer Peter Yarrow, finest often known as a member of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86. His publicist confirmed Yarrow died Tuesday morning, surrounded by his household at his house in New York Metropolis, after a four-year battle with bladder most cancers.

The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Peter Yarrow grew up in New York Metropolis. He started performing folks music as an undergrad at Cornell, and met his bandmates Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey within the Greenwich Village folks scene. As Peter, Paul and Mary, the three noticed huge success within the early Nineteen Sixties, spurred on by a tune Yarrow co-wrote, “Puff, the Magic Dragon.” The group would notch six High 10 hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100 between 1962 and 1969, and earn 5 Grammy awards.

Yarrow was a political activist all through his life, and wrote the anti-Vietnam Warfare protest tune “Day Is Finished,” launched by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1969. However in 1970, his status was tarnished after he was convicted for a sexual offense in opposition to a minor. He served three months in jail and was in the end pardoned by President Jimmy Carter.