Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86 after ...

Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

According to The New York Times, Yarrow died in his Manhattan home on Tuesday ... Yarrow - along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers - formed Peter, Paul & Mary in New York City in the early ...

The trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon, scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.” ...

Alongside Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, Yarrow formed and contributed ... according to The Washington Post and the New York Post. Born in Manhattan to parents who immigrated from the Ukraine ...

Born May 31, 1938, Yarrow was raised in Manhattan and attended Cornell ... soon recruited Travers and Stookey, and Peter, Paul and Mary was hatched. “I had a very strong sense of purpose ...

The singer died on Tuesday (January 7) at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ... Peter, Paul and Mary was formed in 1961 by Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, the latter ...

He died at his home in Manhattan. Born in 1938 to Ukrainian ... where he’d meet fellow singer-songwriters Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey. Together, the three of them decided their voices ...

Yarrow and his band mates Mary Travers and Noel "Paul" Stookey burst ... Born May 31, 1938 in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Yarrow studied painting before turning to singing and ...

Peter Sinfield, co-founder and lyricist of King Crimson, died at the age of 80. He worked with the band for their first four ...