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, Paul and Mary that has ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

“Puff, the Magic Dragon” remains a popular song for children. It’s also one of the most famous tracks from Peter, Paul and Mary’s career. Its popularity stems from both the song itself and the ...

Peter Yarrow ’59 of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary died at 86 on Tuesday at his Upper West Side home in Manhattan. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group’s most popular songs, “Puff the Magic ...

The singer-songwriter, who co-wrote "Puff the Magic Dragon," had bladder cancer for the past four years. By The Associated Press Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, ...

It’s the age of the dragon. Thanks to television shows like Game of Thrones, the mythological creature is well known to people all around the world. But even before the popular HBO television show ...