Yarrow died from bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan.
His death was confirmed by his publicist, Ken Sunshine.
Yarrow had reportedly been battling bladder cancer for several years.
Peter Yarrow performing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.Gai Terrell/Redferns/Getty Images
Jared Polis and folk singer Mary Chapin Carpenter were among those who contributedtributes.
Yarrow, who first played violin before switching to guitar, also taught a course in folk at Cornell.
Grossman began working with Yarrow, who started singing in Greenwich Village clubs (especially the Cafe Wha?
Mary never believed this would go much further than a year or something.
Noel also was doing it on a temporary basis.
But I had a different concept.
Our voices, singing the way we were singing …
I really felt that we had something important to share.
Its like when you fall in love right away and say, Im going to marry this person!
Thats what I said in my heart.
Speaking of the former, Yarrow toldRolling Stonein 2009, It was so incredibly powerful, that moment.
Washington was a segregated city at that time.
Different water fountains for Blacks and whites.
I took your hand, and I said, Peter, we are watching history being made.
During the 1968 presidential election, Yarrow campaigned for democrat Eugene McCarthy.
1968 signaled the very un-happy reality that the social movement lost the possibility of being a dominant political force.
He answered the door naked and made Winter masturbate him until he ejaculated while her sister watched.
It happened when I was just an innocent child, Winter toldThe Washington Postin 2021.
I didnt know anything.
I was just a little girl that liked to play with her friends.
It was an era of real indiscretion and mistakes by categorically male performers, Yarrow once said.
I was one of them.
Im sorry for it.
Winters parents also brought a civil suit against Yarrow, which they eventually settled.
(In that 2021Poststory, Berkel called these claims lies.
When Winters mother heard of the pardon, she reportedly started shouting, He got away with it!
He got away with it!
Additional allegations against Yarrow would surface decades later.
Yarrow allegedly sent her back home with a plane ticket the next morning.
(A settlement in the case was reached a few months after it was filed.)
The father said Yarrow fondled his daughter when she went to his dressing room seeking his autograph.
Despite what people think, it doesnt go away.
You block it out because youre forced to.
You have no other choice but to block it out.
They regrouped for good in 1981, regularly touring and recording albums over the next three decades.
