According to a family representative, folk singer Peter Yarrow, a member of the renowned 1960s group Peter, Paul, and Mary, passed away on Tuesday. He was eighty-six.
After years of fighting bladder cancer, Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most famous song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” passed suddenly in New York City, publicist Ken Sunshine told the Associated Press.
The final chapter of our brave dragon’s amazing life has begun, and he is exhausted. According to daughter Bethany Yarrow’s statement to the Associated Press, “the world knows Peter Yarrow as the iconic folk activist, but the human being behind the legend is every bit as generous, creative, passionate, playful, and wise as his lyrics suggest.”
Following the death of 72-year-old Mary Travers in 2009, Yarrow’s death leaves Paul Stookey, 87, as the only survivor of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
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