Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86 after battling bladder cancer.

The trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon, scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.” By Jim Farber Peter Yarrow ...

Yarrow - along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers - formed Peter ... the Greenwich Village folk scene that helped give birth to Bob Dylan around the same time. The trio was one of the first ...

By Jon Pareles Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on ... Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers (who died in 2009) strummed and harmonized their ...

Alongside Paul Stookey and Mary Travers ... Dragon" and "Norman Normal" written by Yarrow and Stookey, as well as Bob Dylan classics such as "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and "Blowin' in ...

While he made an undeniable impact on the music scene of the '60s, Yarrow was convicted in 1970 for "taking indecent liberties with a minor" and served three months in prison for the offense. He was ...

Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. They also brought early exposure to Bob Dylan by turning two of his songs ...

Peter Yarrow — the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary — died on Tuesday in New York at the age ...