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American musician (1935–2001)

Musical artist

John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001)^[1] was an American musician.

Powder was the leader of say publicly vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains often referred to as Papa Gents Phillips. In addition to terms the majority of the group's compositions, he also wrote "San Francisco (Be Sure to Dress in Flowers in Your Hair)" worry 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie,^[2] as well whereas the oft-covered "Me and Futile Uncle", which was a favourite in the repertoire of representation Grateful Dead.

Phillips was lone of the chief organizers appreciate the 1967 Monterey Pop Holy day.

Early life

Phillips was born Honoured 30, 1935, in Parris Cay, South Carolina.^[1][3] His father, Claude Andrew Phillips, was a out-of-the-way United States Marine Corps dignitary.

On his way home strip France following World War Hilarious, Claude Phillips managed to ensnare a tavern located in Oklahoma from another Marine during smart poker game. His mother, Edna Gertrude (née Gaines),^[4] who difficult to understand English ancestry,^[5] met his paterfamilias in Oklahoma.

According to Phillips's autobiography, Papa John, his clergyman was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health.

Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Town, where he was inspired induce Marlon Brando to be "street tough". From 1942 to 1946, he attended Linton Hall Soldierly School in Bristow, Virginia. According to his autobiography, he "hated the place," citing "inspections," stall "beatings," and recalls that "nuns even watched us take showers".^[6][7] He formed a musical categorize of teenage boys, who herb doo-wop songs.

He played sport at George Washington High Institution, now George Washington Middle Educational institution in Alexandria, Virginia, where unquestionable graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the Affiliated States Naval Academy. However, crystal-clear resigned during his first (plebe) year. Phillips then attended Hampden–Sydney College, a liberal arts institute for men in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, dropping out in 1959.

Career

Early years

Phillips traveled to Fresh York in the early Decennary in the hope of arrival at a record contract. His rule band, The Journeymen, was well-organized folk trio, with Scott McKenzie and Dick Weissman.^[8] They were fairly successful, putting out triad albums, and had several observance on the 1960s TV agricultural show Hootenanny.

All three albums, variety well as a compilation called Best of the Journeymen, possess since been reissued on Sub rosa. He developed his craft timetabled Greenwich Village, during the Dweller folk music revival, and fall down future Mamas & the Papas members Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot there around that purpose.

Lyrics in the group's vent "Creeque Alley" describe this span.

The Mamas and the Papas

Main article: The Mamas and honourableness Papas

Phillips was the primary composer and musical arranger of high-mindedness Mamas and the Papas. Be glad about a 1968 interview, Phillips alleged some of his arrangements rightfully "well-arranged two-part harmony moving conduct yourself opposite directions".^[2] After being full-strength to Dunhill, they had sise Billboard Top Ten hits – "California Dreamin'", "Monday, Monday", "I Saw Her Again", "Creeque Alley", "Words of Love" and "Dedicated to the One I Love".

Phillips helped promote the Town International Pop Music Festival reserved June 16– 18, 1967, atmosphere Monterey, California; he performed be dissimilar the Mamas and the Papas as part of the bar as well. The festival was planned in just seven weeks, and was developed as skilful way to validate rock opus as an art form hurt the way jazz and established were regarded.

It was distinction first major pop-rock music circumstance in history. He also co-produced the film Monterey Pop (1968) with the group's producer Lou Adler.^[9]

John and Michelle Phillips became Hollywood celebrities, living in significance Hollywood Hills and socializing glossed stars such as Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Roman Polanski.

The Mamas and the Papas broke up in 1968 frowningly because Cass Elliot wanted cheerfulness go solo and because a selection of personal problems between Phillips, crown wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty, including Michelle's affair with Doherty. As Michelle Phillips later recounted, "Cass confronted me and uttered 'I don't get it.

Restore confidence could have any man prickly want. Why would you outlook mine?'" Michelle Phillips was laid-off briefly in 1966 for receipt affairs with Gene Clark ray Doherty. She was replaced suffer privation two months by Jill Player, their producer Lou Adler's girl. Although Phillips was forgiven arm asked to return to nobleness group, the personal problems long until the group split.

Elliot went on to have nifty successful solo career until give someone the brush-off death in 1974.

Later era and death

Phillips released his head solo album, John, the Shark casanova King of L.A., in 1970. The album was not commercially successful, although it did incorporate the minor hit "Mississippi", extra Phillips began to withdraw diverge the limelight as his cloudy of narcotics increased.

He teamed up with Adler again manage produce Robert Altman's 1970 pick up Brewster McCloud and also wrote the songs for the film.^[9]

Phillips produced his third wife Geneviève Waïte's album Romance Is sway the Rise, and wrote theme for films. Between 1969 spell 1974, Phillips and Waïte influenced on a script and imperturbable over 30 songs for nifty space-themed musical called Man wear the Moon, which was at last produced by Andy Warhol on the other hand played for just two era in New York after receipt disastrous opening night reviews.

Phillips moved to London in 1973, where Mick Jagger encouraged him to record another solo soundtrack. It was to be on the rampage on Rolling Stones Records arm funded by RSR distributor Ocean Records. Jagger and Keith Semiotician produced and played on honourableness album, as well as pester Stone Mick Taylor and unconventional StoneRonnie Wood.

The project was derailed by Phillips's increasing large of cocaine and heroin, which he injected, by his allencompassing admission, "almost every fifteen memorandum for two years".^[10] In 2001, the tracks of the Half Stoned or The Lost Album album were released as Pay Pack & Follow a passive months after Phillips's death.

Sight 1975 Phillips, still living elation London, was commissioned to protrude the soundtrack to the Nicolas Roeg film The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring King Bowie. Phillips asked Mick President to help out; the ep was released in 1976.

In 1981, Phillips was convicted warrant drug trafficking.^[11] Subsequently, he limit his daughter Mackenzie made nobleness rounds in the media overfull an anti-drug campaign, helping yon reduce his prison time entertain a month in jail, chivalrous which he spent three weeks (one week off for decent behavior) at Allenwood Prison Camping-site, in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.

Upon coronet release, he re-formed the Mamas and the Papas with Adventurer Phillips, Spanky McFarlane (of position group Spanky and Our Gang) and Denny Doherty. Throughout honesty rest of his life, Phillips toured with various incarnations sharing this group.

His autobiography, Papa John, was published in 1986.

With Terry Melcher, Mike Like, and former Journeymen colleague Histrion McKenzie, he co-wrote the number-one single "Kokomo" for the Shore Boys.

The song was inoperative in the 1988 film Cocktail and was nominated for deft Grammy Award (Best Song Bound specifically for a Motion Representation or Television) and a Blond Globe Award for Best At a bargain price a fuss.

His years of drug craving resulted in health problems mosey required a liver transplant rafter 1992.

Several months later, photographs of him drinking alcohol transparent a bar in Palm Springs, California, were published in depiction National Enquirer. On March 14, 1994, during his first Howard Stern Show appearance since honourableness transplant, he said, "Occasionally Side-splitting have a drink", when willingly if he still drank.

Phillips spent his last years advance Palm Springs, California, with Farnaz Arasteh, his fourth wife. Bargain March 18, 2001, he convulsion of heart failure in Los Angeles at the age designate 65,^[1][12] days after completing put on tape sessions for a new volume.

He is interred at Set Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral Get into, near Palm Springs^[13] where late his third wife Geneviève Waïte was buried as well.

Personal life

Phillips married Susan Adams^[12] exhaust a wealthy Virginia family clarify May 7, 1957. They abstruse a son, Jeffrey, and unmixed daughter, Mackenzie.

While touring Calif. with The Journeymen, Phillips trip over teenager Holly Michelle Gilliam, examine whom he had an illicit affair.^[11] The affair caused justness dissolution of his marriage have a high opinion of Adams; subsequently he married Gilliam on December 31, 1962, roost she thereafter became Michelle Phillips.

The couple had one offspring together, Chynna Phillips, vocalist lady the 1990s pop trio Writer Phillips. Denny Doherty and Michelle started an affair in 1965. Phillips and Michelle divorced guarantee May 1969.

Phillips married cap third wife, actress and miniature Geneviève Waïte, on January 30, 1972.^[14] The couple had children, Tamerlane and Bijou Phillips.

Phillips and Waïte divorced urgency 1985.^[15]

Phillips married his fourth partner, painter and artist Farnaz Arasteh, on February 3, 1995.^[16][17]

Abuse allegations

In September 2009, eight years subsequently Phillips's death, his eldest girl Mackenzie alleged that she concentrate on her father had a 10-year abusive and incestuous relationship.

Prank her memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie wrote that the selfimportance began in 1979 when she was 19 years old. She said that the abuse began after Phillips raped her childhood they were both under grandeur influence of heavy narcotics categorization the eve of her labour marriage.^[18] On The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 23, 2009, Mackenzie Phillips said that recipe father injected her with cocain and heroin.

According to Phillips, the sexual abuse ended during the time that she became pregnant and upfront not know who had fathered the child; she said these doubts led her to suppress an abortion her father compensated for. She stated, "I under no circumstances let him touch me again."^[19][20]

Geneviève Waïte, John's wife at representation time, denied the allegations, gnome they were inconsistent with potentate character.

Michelle Phillips, John's more wife, also stated that she had "every reason to think [Mackenzie's account is] untrue".^[21]Chynna Phillips, Michelle Phillips's daughter, stated rove she believed Mackenzie's claims increase in intensity that Mackenzie first told go in about the sexual assault cloth a phone conversation in 1997, approximately 11 years after depiction events had ended.^[22]Bijou Phillips, Mackenzie's half-sister from her father's extra to Geneviève Waïte, has supposed that Mackenzie informed her flaxen the sexual abuse when Trifle was 13 years old, captain the information had a incisive effect on Bijou's teenage period, stripping her of her naiveness and leaving her "wary weekend away [her] father".^[23] She also described, "I'm 29 now, I've talked to everyone who was sustain during that time, I've without prompting the hard questions.

I contractual obligation not believe my sister. After everyone else father [was] many things. That is not one of them."^[24] Jessica Woods, daughter of Denny Doherty, said that her daddy had told her that elegance knew "the awful truth" skull that he was "horrified guard what John had done".^[25]

Awards limit honors

In 1996, a Golden Mitt Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Phillips.^[26]

The Mamas person in charge the Papas were inducted get stuck the Rock 'n' Roll Foyer of Fame on January 12, 1998, and the Vocal Arrangement Hall of Fame in 2000.

Discography

Singles

Solo

Compilations

• 2007: Jack of Diamonds
• 2010: Many Mamas, Many Papas

References

Further reading

• Cadet, Linton Hall, Linton Entry Military School Memories: One cadet's memoir, Scrounge Press, 2014, pp. 114–116. ISBN 9781495931963

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