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John Sinclair (October 2, 1941 – April 2, 2024) was an American poet, writer, ... Eventually, the MC5 came to find Sinclair's politics too heavy-handed.
John Sinclair, the counterculture activist and former MC5 manager who helped define that proto-punk ensemble’s radical politics, died on Tuesday at 82. Sinclair’s death from congestive heart ...
In April 2024, John Sinclair, who previously served as MC5's manager and who was also instrumental in the band's political activism, died as well. [45] In April 2024, the MC5 was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical excellence category. [46] [47] Thompson died of a heart attack on May 8, 2024, at the age of ...
“Free John Now!” By 1967, Sinclair had hooked up with the MC5, a bombastic rock quintet originally from Lincoln Park. They were trying desperately to break through in a thriving regional music ...
John Sinclair, manager of the MC5, is arrested by Detroit police and given his first haircut in three years. John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning ...
The documentary film MC5: A True Testimonial (2002) features comments by Sinclair and MC5 on the party. Essay: The Political Economy of the White Panthers "60s radical takes long trip back to his roots," Marsha Low, Detroit Free Press, October 27. 2004, Sec B. "White Panther Statement" John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Sun, 1968.
The band was closely related to the MC5, as both bands' members lived in White Panther Party founder John Sinclair's commune. In May 1968, Sinclair moved the commune to Ann Arbor, Michigan and both bands followed. The Up served as the opening act for the MC5 during a September 1968 show at the University of Michigan's
At the band's Cass Corridor home base with manager John Sinclair, the MC5 formed the White Panther Party, rife with militant imagery and progressive themes. Looking back decades later with the ...