According to a family representative, folk musician Peter Yarrow, three-quarters of the renowned 1960s trio Peter, Paul, and Marydied Tuesday, and author of the ageless classic “Puff the Magic Dragon”
He was eighty-six.
Publicist Ken Sunshine told NBC News that Yarrow passed away in New York City years after being diagnosed with bladder cancer.
The final chapter of our brave dragon’s amazing life has begun, and he is exhausted. According to a statement from daughter Bethany Yarrow, the world is familiar with Peter Yarrow as the legendary folk activist, but the real person behind the myth is just as kind, imaginative, passionate, humorous, and smart as his lyrics imply.
Noel Paul Stookey, 87, is the only remaining member of Peter, Paul, and Mary after Yarrow’s death and the 2009 death of 72-year-old Mary Travers.
Yarrow co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” which was inspired by a poem by the late Lenny Lipton. The trio’s songs were included on the soundtrack for the civil rights movement.
As an only kid growing up, Stookey claimed that until he met Yarrow, he had no idea what it was like to have a brother. They attended each other’s weddings as each other’s best man.
“He was my three daughters’ devoted uncle. Furthermore, despite the fact that my love of the country and his comfort in the city kept us apart geographically, Stookey stated in a statement that our friendship and music frequently highlighted our divergent viewpoints.
“Although I was five months older than Peter, who became my imaginative, uncontrollable, impulsive, and musical younger brother, I also learned to appreciate and respect the wise, inspiring advice he gave me like an older brother. Peter, who was both politically astute and emotionally vulnerable, may have been the brother I never had, and I will miss him both terribly.
His wife Marybeth, son Christopher, daughter Bethany, and granddaughter Valentina are among Yarrow’s surviving family members.
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