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John Sinclair, MC5 manager and activist, died in April 2024.

He got 9.5 to 10 years for giving two joints to undercover cops.

When MC5 played the show it was at a venue called Crazy Horse, which was very popular in the 60s and 70s. The Concert Database places its original location at 5845 S. 12th Street in Portage, where the Bullfrogs & Butterflies Christian Learning Center & Preschool is today.

John Sinclair

Associated Press - Politico / April 2, 2024 John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died. He was 82. Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of…

“I’m trying to get home. I want to be with you,” a sobbing Mr. Sinclair told the concert crowd from prison. And by Monday, he was.

Poet, writer, band manager, musician and activist John Sinclair has died at age 82.

Sinclair drew a 9 1/2-to-10-year prison sentence in 1969 for giving two joints to undercover officers.

John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, died Tuesday.

John Sinclair, MC5 manager and activist, died in April 2024.