Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86 years old, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic ... story of a dragon, and set it to music.
who co-wrote the iconic tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” I thought back to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1972. I was a high-school junior in a suburb 3 miles west of Northwestern.
Perhaps Yarrow's most enduring song with the trio was "Puff the Magic Dragon," which he wrote based on a poem by then-19-year-old author and filmmaker Lenny Lipton. Though the whimsical song was ...
Peter Yarrow, co-founder of the ’60s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died from bladder cancer aged 86. Yarrow, alongside his bandmates, was behind the hit song Puff The Magic Dragon which came out ...
Peter Yarrow, known as part of the US folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary as well as for writing ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ – and ... five US Top 10 albums. Their music was often political and ...
The group were civil rights and anti-war campaigners, best known for the song Puff The Magic Dragon and their versions of If I Had A Hammer and Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Yarrow, who was ...