Sad news to impart today, our friend, John Sinclair, legendary poet, music aficionado, marijuana aficionado, counter-culture hero, political activist, and more, died this morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure, following an illness. He was 82.
See notable postings on John on The Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here and here
Obituary notices in the local press:
Bill McGraw in the Detroit Free Press
(also from The Detroit Free Press – see here and here)
Detroit Public Radio – here
Melody Baetens in The Detroit News
Lee Devito in the Detroit Metro Times
Allan Lengel in Deadline Detroit
Mike Householder for the AP wire service
A.D.Amorosi for Variety
Gary Graff for Billboard
Althea Legasby in Rolling Stone
Benjamin Adams in High Times
NORML
Matt Friedlander in American Songwriter
Michael Rosenwald’s obituary in the New York Times
Early days – This is just a sprinkling. As the news leaks out there’ll surely be many many more
Here‘s (from last July) John, honored by the Detroit Historical Museum, “leaving his mark on history”
Here’s (from back in 1971, Allen’s “Prayer For John Sinclair”:
Rest in peace and power, Big Chief!