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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — 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
John Sinclair, the former manager of rock band MC5 and a radical Detroit activist, died at age 82 on Tuesday (April 2).
Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure following an illness, his publicist Matt Lee said.
Sinclair drew a 9 1/2-to-10-year prison sentence in 1969 for giving two joints to undercover officers.
Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure following an illness, his publicist Matt Lee said.