Or, at the very least, you know some of the bangers, like Puff, the Magic Dragon. Maybe it's because you think the meaning behind the song is slightly inappropriate, and has to do with something ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter ...

Perhaps Yarrow's most enduring song with the trio was "Puff the Magic Dragon," which he wrote based on a poem by then-19-year-old author and filmmaker Lenny Lipton. Though the whimsical song was ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86.

The trio would score many hits over the following years — including with the Yarrow-co-written “Puff the Magic Dragon” — yet would remain indelibly associated with those early years.

He was 86. Yarrow, co-writer of “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and other timeless folk hits, reportedly died Tuesday morning at his New York City home, surrounded by family, after a four-year battle ...

PUFF The Magic Dragon's co-writer Peter Yarrow has tragically died aged 86. The legend - best known as one-third of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary - died on Tuesday in New York, according to his ...

who co-wrote the iconic tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” I thought back to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1972. I was a high-school junior in a suburb 3 miles west of Northwestern.

Yarrow co-wrote one of the group’s most popular songs, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” which was based on a poem written by an acquaintance he had met at Cornell. Yarrow studied psychology at ...

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 bladder cancer for the past four ...