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‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ‘60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
Country Joe McDonald, a defining voice of 1960s antiwar protest music, died from Parkinson's complications, leaving a legacy of nearly 40 solo albums and iconic Vietnam War anthems.
- Country Joe McDonald, the Bay Area singer‑songwriter, died on March 7 in Berkeley, California, at age 84 from complications of Parkinson's disease, his wife Kathy McDonald and band said.
- His signature 1965 I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag became a Vietnam War anthem, and at Woodstock Festival, 1969, McDonald’s altered Fish Cheer reached massive audiences.
- He co-founded Country Joe and the Fish in 1965 with guitarist Barry Melton, releasing Electric Music for the Mind and Body in 1967 and producing 30-plus albums and nearly 40 solo records.
- Obituaries remembered McDonald as a defining voice of the 1960s counterculture, and the band said in an official statement that he is survived by wife Kathy Wright, five children, and multiple grandchildren.
- Beyond his hits, McDonald continued writing songs on environmental and civil‑rights topics, helped organize a Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Berkeley, and performed at an anti‑nuclear protest at Livermore Laboratory.
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Country Joe McDonald, anti-war singer who electrified Woodstock, dies at 84
Country Joe McDonald, the singer-songwriter whose Vietnam War protest song became a signature anthem of the 1960s counterculture, has died at 84.McDonald died on Saturday in Berkeley, Calif., according to a statement released by a publicist. His health had recently declined due to Parkinson’s disease.Born in 1942, in Washington, D.C., he grew up in El Monte, Calif., outside Los Angeles, according to a biography on his website. As a young man he …
Country Joe McDonald, whose presentation in Woodstock — in which he led a crowd of 400 thousand people in a subversive choir before starting his anti-war satiric song “I-feel-like-I’m-fixin’-to-die-rag” — touched so much that he often discovered the variety and dimension of his career, died on Saturday (7) at 84 years of age from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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Country Joe McDonald, singer, American patriot, communist and fan of freedom of expression and wild curses, has died. An obituary.
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