Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday ... Plane” to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 – their only ...

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.

Yarrow was one-third of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Peter Yarrow ... The 1964 single rose to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and in the years since has been covered ...

The storied music manager Albert Grossman teamed Yarrow with Mary Travers and and Noel “Paul ... quickly skyrocketed to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over a million copies by that ...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted ... friend peaked at Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a modern standard and ...

The singer and songwriter who helped popularize folk music in the 1960s died of bladder cancer at his home in New York.