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“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.