Dead|The folk star of the 1960s is also remembered as the composer of the classic children’s song Lohikaimä Puffi.
American folk musician Peter Yarrow has died at his home in New York, says the newspaper The New York Times. He was 86 years old.
Yarrow is known as a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary, which enjoyed great popularity in the 1960s. The most famous of the songs recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary were, among others Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer and a children’s song Puff the Magic Dragonwhich Yarrow composed Leonard Liptonin to the poem.
Puff the Magic Dragon also known as the Finnish translation version Dragon Puffwhich they recorded Brita Koivunen and the vocal group Four Cats in 1964.
Peter, Paul & Mary broke up in 1970, but the trio reunited in the early 1980s. The trio continued until 2009, when he was diagnosed with leukemia Mary Travers died in.