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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes Deputy music editor

Peter Yarrow of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies aged 86

From left: Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel ‘Paul’ Stookey pictured in 1962.
From left: Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel ‘Paul’ Stookey pictured in 1962. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Peter Yarrow, a vocalist with the US folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died aged 86. The cause was bladder cancer, which Yarrow had been diagnosed with four years ago.

Yarrow took lead vocals on Puff, the Magic Dragon, The Great Mandella and Day Is Done, songs he either wrote or co-wrote with Noel Paul Stookey. Stookey is the last surviving member of the group, as Mary Travers died in 2009.

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