Pedo Folk Singer Peter Yarrow Dies

Edit: he did so much to build the zeitgeist of folk singer troubadour of the 1968 revolution and was a classic symbol of the hapless, morally deprived boomer. His influence was felt in “Catholic” circles as well, and one isn’t surprised that he was also a sex pest on children.

One is inescapably reminded of the febrile predator, David Haas, to whom the Catholic Church of the time owes so much in terms of really awful music. Is it any surprise that a creator of such awful music is also a deviant sex pest?

What was Benilde St. Margret’s thinking when they hired this flapdoodle in 1992? I would have thought, “this guy is a huge fruitcake just like Peter Yarrow. No way am I hiring him.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86. 

Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said. Yarrow had been battling bladder cancer for the past four years.

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