John Sinclair, poeta, productor musical y figura de la contracultura cuya larga sentencia de prisión por delitos relacionados con marihuana inspiró una canción de John Lennon y un concierto repleto de estrellas en 1971 para liberarlo, falleció.
John Sinclair, poeta, productor musical y figura de la contracultura cuya larga sentencia de prisión por delitos relacionados con marihuana inspiró una canción de John Lennon y un concierto repleto de estrellas en 1971 para liberarlo, falleció. Tenía 82 años. Sinclair murió el martes por la mañana en Detroit Receiving Hospital por una insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva después de una enfermedad, dijo su publicista Matt Lee.
Pasé casi tres años en la cárcel por culpa de la marihuana”. Sinclair nació en Flint en 1941. Su padre trabajó para Buick durante más de cuatro décadas y su madre era una maestra de secundaria que renunció a su trabajo para criar a John y sus dos hermanos. Sinclair creció en Davison, un pueblo no muy lejos de Flint. Se graduó de la Universidad de Michigan-Flint en 1964 con un título en Literatura Inglesa.
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