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Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary Dead at 86
The popular 1960s folk singer had bladder cancer.
Peter, Paul, and Mary quickly became one of the most successful folk acts of the 1960s; their 1962 debut album went double Platinum and their recording of “If I Had a Hammer” won two Grammys. Yarrow sang lead on the group’s most enduring hit, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” adapted from a poem by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. Like other folk groups of the era, Peter, Paul and Mary were politically active, performing at the 1963 March on Washington and opposing the Vietnam War.
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