US Edition‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ‘60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
Country Joe McDonald, a defining voice of 1960s antiwar protest music, died from Parkinson's complications, leaving a legacy of nearly 40 solo albums and iconic Vietnam War anthems.
- Country Joe McDonald, the Bay Area singer‑songwriter, died on March 7 in Berkeley, California, at age 84 from complications of Parkinson's disease, his wife Kathy McDonald and band said.
- His signature 1965 I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag became a Vietnam War anthem, and at Woodstock Festival, 1969, McDonald’s altered Fish Cheer reached massive audiences.
- He co-founded Country Joe and the Fish in 1965 with guitarist Barry Melton, releasing Electric Music for the Mind and Body in 1967 and producing 30-plus albums and nearly 40 solo records.
- Obituaries remembered McDonald as a defining voice of the 1960s counterculture, and the band said in an official statement that he is survived by wife Kathy Wright, five children, and multiple grandchildren.
- Beyond his hits, McDonald continued writing songs on environmental and civil‑rights topics, helped organize a Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Berkeley, and performed at an anti‑nuclear protest at Livermore Laboratory.
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With his protest songs he shaped the legendary Woodstock Festival, his music made him an icon of counterculture. Country Joe McDonald has now died of Parkinson's disease. The musician and activist became 84 years old.
'Country' Joe McDonald, antiwar icon of the 1960s, dies from complications of Parkinson's at 84
“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84. McDonald, who performed with his band, Country Joe and the Fish, died in Berkeley, California. His death from complications of Parkinson’s disease was reported by Kathy McDonald, his wife of 43 y…
Singer ‘Country’ Joe McDonald, Vietnam War Protester, Dies at 84
“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84.
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