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Country Joe McDonald, the 1960s hippie rocker best known for the antiwar anthem I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag and a Woodstock highlight, died in Berkeley, California at 84 from Parkinson’s disease, leaving a lasting mark on protest music and the Bay Area scene.
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.
Country Joe McDonald, frontman of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining figure of 1960s counterculture, died at 84. Best known for the anti–Vietnam War anthem I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag and his Woodstock appearance, his music helped shape protest-era rock.
Country Joe McDonald, the Bay Area counterculture icon behind I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag and leader of Country Joe and the Fish, died at 84 in Berkeley from Parkinson’s disease complications, leaving a Woodstock-era antiwar legacy.
Country Joe McDonald, frontman of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining voice of the 1960s antiwar counterculture after Woodstock, died Saturday in Berkeley at 84 from Parkinson’s disease. Born Joseph Allen McDonald in 1942, he helped propel protest music with hits like I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag and the infamous Fish Cheer at Woodstock, and continued as a musician-activist after the band’s 1971 split.