Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York. His father was a lawyer and a co-founder of the CIA project Radio Free Europe.

American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow died in the morning at ...

While in undergrad, Yarrow took the poem, which told the story of a dragon, and set it to music. The song was later featured on the 1963 album “Moving” by Peter, Paul and Mary, with Yarrow ...

Peter Yarrow of folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary died in New York on Tuesday, January 7. The writer of the iconic song “Puff the Magic Dragon” was 86. “Our fearless dragon is tired and has ...

Peter Yarrow -- one third of ... shortly after the song's release, partly to pursue solo work and partly because Yarrow was accused of making sexual advances toward a 14-year-old girl who came ...

Peter, Paul and Mary also brought early exposure to Bob Dylan, covering his song Blowin' In The Wind and performing it at the 1963 march on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his ...

American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow ... Dragon,” which Yarrow co-wrote. The group’s version of Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” helped transform the song into a civil rights ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best ... more,” he told the late record company executive Joe Smith. But as he led the class in song, he began to discover the emotional impact music could ...

Noel Stookey made them a gift of The Wedding Song (There Is Love), which he wrote for them and which charted in 1971. It has since become a wedding classic. Peter Yarrow and his wife, who had a ...