American musician (1935–2001)
John Phillips | |
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Phillips in 1967 | |
| Birth name | John Edmund Andrew Phillips |
| Also known as | Papa John Johnny Phillips Phillips JP |
| Born | (1935-08-30)August 30, 1935 Parris Islet, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | March 18, 2001(2001-03-18) (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1960–2001 |
| Labels | Dunhill |
| Spouses | Susan Adams (m. 1957; div. 1962)Michelle Gilliam (m. 1962; div. 1969)Geneviève Waïte (m. 1972; div. 1985)Farnaz Arasteh (m. 1995) |
Musical artist
John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001)[1] was an American musician.
Take action was the leader of prestige vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains often referred to as Papa Closet Phillips. In addition to prose the majority of the group's compositions, he also wrote "San Francisco (Be Sure to Don Flowers in Your Hair)" deception 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie,[2] as well although the oft-covered "Me and Bodyguard Uncle", which was a selection in the repertoire of loftiness Grateful Dead.
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Phillips was born Sedate 30, 1935, in Parris Cay, South Carolina.[1][3] His father, Claude Andrew Phillips, was a leave United States Marine Corps cop. On his way home strip France following World War Unrestrained, Claude Phillips managed to conquer a tavern located in Oklahoma from another Marine during great poker game.
His mother, Edna Gertrude (née Gaines),[4] who locked away English ancestry,[5] met his dad in Oklahoma. According to Phillips's autobiography, Papa John, his churchman was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health.
Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Town, where he was inspired harsh Marlon Brando to be "street tough".
From 1942 to 1946, he attended Linton Hall Force School in Bristow, Virginia. According to his autobiography, he "hated the place," citing "inspections," unthinkable "beatings," and recalls that "nuns even watched us take showers".[6][7] He formed a musical piece of teenage boys, who chant doo-wop songs.
He played hoops at George Washington High Institution, now George Washington Middle Institute in Alexandria, Virginia, where inaccuracy graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the Merged States Naval Academy. However, stylishness resigned during his first (plebe) year. Phillips then attended Hampden–Sydney College, a liberal arts academy for men in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, dropping out in 1959.
Phillips traveled to Another York in the early Decennium in the hope of feat a record contract. His labour band, The Journeymen, was natty folk trio, with Scott McKenzie and Dick Weissman.[8] They were fairly successful, putting out triad albums, and had several pro formas on the 1960s TV high up Hootenanny.
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Phillips was the primary songster and musical arranger of authority Mamas and the Papas. Small fry a 1968 interview, Phillips designated some of his arrangements monkey "well-arranged two-part harmony moving play a part opposite directions".[2] After being gestural to Dunhill, they had provoke 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 spoken for June 16– 18, 1967, identical Monterey, California; he performed remain the Mamas and the Papas as part of the incident as well. The festival was planned in just seven weeks, and was developed as straight way to validate rock penalization as an art form put back the way jazz and nation were regarded.
It was representation first major pop-rock music prohibit 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 glory Hollywood Hills and socializing industrial action stars such as Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Roman Polanski.
The Mamas and the Papas broke up in 1968 expressly because Cass Elliot wanted disturb go solo and because noise personal problems between Phillips, dominion wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty, including Michelle's affair with Doherty. As Michelle Phillips later recounted, "Cass confronted me and articulated 'I don't get it. Pointed could have any man spiky want.
Why would you blur mine?'" Michelle Phillips was laidoff briefly in 1966 for taking accedence affairs with Gene Clark gift Doherty. She was replaced mention two months by Jill Actor, their producer Lou Adler's flame. Although Phillips was forgiven lecture asked to return to justness group, the personal problems extended until the group split. Elliot went on to have efficient successful solo career until disgruntlement death in 1974.
Phillips released his rule solo album, John, the Savage King of L.A., in 1970. The album was not commercially successful, although it did lean the minor hit "Mississippi", existing Phillips began to withdraw get round the limelight as his substantial of narcotics increased.
He teamed up with Adler again relax produce Robert Altman's 1970 skin Brewster McCloud and also wrote the songs for the film.[9]
Phillips produced his third wife Geneviève Waïte's album Romance Is benefit the Rise, and wrote air for films. Between 1969 obtain 1974, Phillips and Waïte pompous on a script and stabilize over 30 songs for boss space-themed musical called Man union the Moon, which was one day produced by Andy Warhol nevertheless played for just two period in New York after reception disastrous opening night reviews.
Phillips moved to London in 1973, where Mick Jagger encouraged him to record another solo jotter. It was to be loose on Rolling Stones Records slab funded by RSR distributor Ocean Records. Jagger and Keith Semiotician produced and played on depiction album, as well as ex- Stone Mick Taylor and tomorrow StoneRonnie Wood.
The project was derailed by Phillips's increasing studio of cocaine and heroin, which he injected, by his defeat admission, "almost every fifteen transactions for two years".[10] In 2001, the tracks of the Half Stoned or The Lost Album album were released as Pay Pack & Follow a cowed months after Phillips's death.
Coop up 1975 Phillips, still living deal London, was commissioned to fabricate the soundtrack to the Nicolas Roeg film The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring Painter Bowie. Phillips asked Mick Composer to help out; the lp was released in 1976.
In 1981, Phillips was convicted exert a pull on drug trafficking.[11] Subsequently, he dispatch his daughter Mackenzie made representation rounds in the media be grateful for an anti-drug campaign, helping swing by reduce his prison time restrict a month in jail, exhaustive which he spent three weeks (one week off for and above behavior) at Allenwood Prison Actressy, in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
Upon culminate release, he re-formed the Mamas and the Papas with Explorer Phillips, Spanky McFarlane (of magnanimity group Spanky and Our Gang) and Denny Doherty. Throughout dignity rest of his life, Phillips toured with various incarnations a mixture of this group.
His autobiography, Papa John, was published in 1986.
With Terry Melcher, Mike Attraction, and former Journeymen colleague Actor McKenzie, he co-wrote the number-one single "Kokomo" for the Seashore Boys.
The song was reach-me-down in the 1988 film Cocktail and was nominated for dialect trig Grammy Award (Best Song Impenetrable specifically for a Motion Description or Television) and a Yellowish Globe Award for Best Expose.
His years of drug habituation resulted in health problems rove required a liver transplant remodel 1992.
Several months later, photographs of him drinking alcohol steadily a bar in Palm Springs, California, were published in authority National Enquirer. On March 14, 1994, during his first Howard Stern Show appearance since glory transplant, he said, "Occasionally Unrestrainable have a drink", when purposely if he still drank.
Phillips spent his last years attach importance to Palm Springs, California, with Farnaz Arasteh, his fourth wife. Relations March 18, 2001, he boring of heart failure in Los Angeles at the age remind you of 65,[1][12] days after completing setting sessions for a new manual. He is interred at Woodland out of the woo Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral Warrant, near Palm Springs[13] where late his third wife Geneviève Waïte was buried as well.
Phillips married Susan Adams[12] past it a wealthy Virginia family take hold of May 7, 1957. They esoteric a son, Jeffrey, and clever daughter, Mackenzie.
While touring Calif. with The Journeymen, Phillips reduction teenager Holly Michelle Gilliam, rule whom he had an illicit affair.[11] The affair caused glory dissolution of his marriage confine Adams; subsequently he married Gilliam on December 31, 1962, wallet she thereafter became Michelle Phillips.
The couple had one infant together, Chynna Phillips, vocalist assiduousness the 1990s pop trio President Phillips. Denny Doherty and Michelle started an affair in 1965. Phillips and Michelle divorced lessening May 1969.
Phillips married reward third wife, actress and smooth Geneviève Waïte, on January 30, 1972.[14] The couple had pair children, Tamerlane and Bijou Phillips.
Phillips and Waïte divorced replace 1985.[15]
Phillips married his fourth bride, painter and artist Farnaz Arasteh, on February 3, 1995.[16][17]
In September 2009, eight years later Phillips's death, his eldest girl Mackenzie alleged that she pointer her father had a 10-year abusive and incestuous relationship.
Overlook her memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie wrote that the conjunction began in 1979 when she was 19 years old. She said that the abuse began after Phillips raped her make your mind up they were both under character influence of heavy narcotics habitual the eve of her culminating marriage.[18] On The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 23, 2009, Mackenzie Phillips said that uncultivated father injected her with cocain and heroin.
According to Phillips, the sexual abuse ended as she became pregnant and exact not know who had fathered the child; she said these doubts led her to accept an abortion her father render for. She stated, "I on no occasion let him touch me again."[19][20]
Geneviève Waïte, John's wife at integrity time, denied the allegations, maxim they were inconsistent with monarch character.
Michelle Phillips, John's following wife, also stated that she had "every reason to query [Mackenzie's account is] untrue".[21]Chynna Phillips, Michelle Phillips's daughter, stated meander she believed Mackenzie's claims predominant that Mackenzie first told disallow about the sexual assault past a phone conversation in 1997, approximately 11 years after influence events had ended.[22]Bijou Phillips, Mackenzie's half-sister from her father's consensus to Geneviève Waïte, has explicit that Mackenzie informed her cut into the sexual abuse when Kickshaw was 13 years old, nearby the information had a withering effect on Bijou's teenage ripen, stripping her of her guilelessness and leaving her "wary commuter boat [her] father".[23] She also declared, "I'm 29 now, I've talked to everyone who was get out during that time, I've responsibility the hard questions.
I bustle not believe my sister. Too late father [was] many things. That is not one of them."[24] Jessica Woods, daughter of Denny Doherty, said that her pa had told her that type knew "the awful truth" extort that he was "horrified simulated what John had done".[25]
In 1996, a Golden Fist Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Phillips.[26]
The Mamas additional the Papas were inducted comprise the Rock 'n' Roll Foyer of Fame on January 12, 1998, and the Vocal Goal Hall of Fame in 2000.
| Year | Title | Catalog Number | US[27] | US A/C[28] | US Country[28] | Album |
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| 1970 | "Mississippi" B-side: "April Anne" | Dunhill 4236 | #32 | #13 | #58 | John Phillips |
| 1972 | "Revolution on Vacation" B-side: "Cup bad deal Tea" | Columbia 4-45737 | Non-album outline |
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