Many suspected 'Puff The Magic Dragon' to be subtly about smoking marijuana, but the writer insisted it was just a tale about innocence lost.

Of course, in the parlance of the Counterculture movement that was taking hold alongside the Vietnam War (in opposition to that conflict), “puff the magic dragon” had a very different connotation. As ...

Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” are just some of the popular ‘60s folk songs that will ...

Peter Yarrow, of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, was convicted in 1970 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he ...

Yarrow's conviction for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl taints his music, writes the director of the Women's Rabbinic ...

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(JTA) — Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary’s music. “Puff The Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a ...

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

January’s music losses include Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Wayne Osmond of The Osmonds, Garth Hudson of The Band, John Sykes of Whitesnake, and ...

Ease” is different from any I’ve ever written, but it dovetails nicely with Executive Editor Christina Myers’ recent Sunday ...

They were 32. Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and a prominent social activist, died Jan. 7 at his home ...