Peter, Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life by Yarrow, Peter NEUF mode

This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of Americas heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over five decades by some of the worlds top photographers, follow them from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the most desired, beautiful, and charismatic performer and a new role model for women. Follow the trio as they lead America to discover the passionate soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality, social justice, and freedom in this memorable journey, from the historic 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., to the trios appearance before a half million people in 1969 to end the Vietnam War, to their singing at the Hollywood Bowl for Survival Sunday in 1978, helping to launch the anti-nuke movement, the worlds first international environmental movement.





Through these images, readers will feel and almost hear the trios songs calling for a more caring, better world as they performed with a courage and conviction that became for so many the embodiment and soundtrack of their generations awakening to conscience, to activism, and to a new dream for all of humankind. Peter, Paul, and Marys songs of defiant hope and a certain unmasked innocence are still a powerful part of our American consciousness, and this book reenacts the history of how the trio marked many lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we all yearn to recapture and recreate today-for ourselves, our children, and the generations to come.

Peter, Paul, and Mary came into being at the dawn of John F. Kennedys presidency, as America entered one of its most dramatic periods of social and political change. With music being one of the great forces that brought them together, Americans united in unprecedented ways to create a more just and peaceful society. Folk music, with its ability to reach peoples hearts, became the sound track of this remarkable quest, and Peter, Paul, and Mary became standard-bearers of Americas new hopes and dreams.

• Foreword

• Preface

• Fifty Years in Music and Life

• Peter Yarrow

• Noel Paul Stookey

• Mary Travers

• Index

• Image Credits and Acknowledgments