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5 items by Matthew Greenwald

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  Arthur Lee's New Love | ARTICLE

  Embattled West Coast-rock pioneer Arthur Lee is doing his best to make up for the nearly six years he spent in jail on a felony weapons conviction. After he wraps up his current tour with the latest incarnation of Love...

  August 9, 2002 12:00 AM ET
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  Love's Arthur Lee to Be Free | ARTICLE

  Arthur Lee, the prime architect of Sixties rock legends Love, will be released from prison today, after serving almost six years of an eleven-year sentence. In 1996, Lee was convicted of possession of a firearm by an...

  December 12, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Papa John Phillips Dies | ARTICLE

  John Phillips, co-founder, songwriter and musical architect of the Mamas and the Papas died of heart failure on Sunday morning at 8:15 a.m. (PST) at UCLA Medical Center. He was sixty-five-years-old. Phillips is best known as the Mamas...

  March 19, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Founding Member of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape Dies | ARTICLE

  Alexander "Skip" Spence, one of the founding members of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape -- two of the Bay Area's most influential bands -- died on April 16th from lung cancer.| Spence, who would have turned...

  April 19, 1999 12:00 AM ET
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  Papa Was a Rolling Stone | ARTICLE

  The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band may be into its fourth decade of rocking, but thanks to the release of a solo album by the Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips, it will soon be possible to experience...

  August 18, 1998 12:00 AM ET