Woodstock Icon Country Joe McDonald Dies at 84
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Country Joe McDonald, the Woodstock-era frontman of Country Joe and the Fish, has died at 84 in Berkeley, California, from complications of Parkinson's disease; he wrote the anti-Vietnam War anthem I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag and became a defining voice of 1960s counterculture, with Woodstock moments and a lasting legacy in protest music. He is survived by his wife Kathy and their children, and donations are requested to Swords to Ploughshares or the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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