John Sinclair (poet)

John Sinclair ( born October 2, 1941 in Flint, Michigan) is an American poet and writer and was former manager of the MC5, and Chairman of the White Panther Party.

Life

In July 1969 John Sinclair was sentenced to 9.5 and 10 years in prison because he had sold two joints to undercover drug police.

At the Woodstock Festival in 1969, the activist Abbie Hoffman interrupted the performance of the British rock band The Who, by trying to hold a protest speech against the arrest of Sinclair. The Who guitarist Pete Townshend knocked him off the stage. Although this was not just one of the proudest moments Hoffman, this event was part of the rock and roll history. Townshend later said that he was actually regarding Sinclair's arrest with a Hoffman opinion.

In prison he wrote the books Guitar Army and Music & Politics. In the latter, Rob Levin was a co-author. Through his books he was in the United States become a national symbol of the fight for the legalization of marijuana. On December 10, 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed in front of 15,000 people, the Free John Now Rally in the Chrysler Arena in Ann Arbor, where she sang the song John Sinclair in his honor, was included in the following text, the freedom Sinclair demanded:

Three days later, dismissed the Supreme Court of Michigan Sinclair and revised the judgment in his favor.

Sinclair had a significant part in the founding of the anarchist underground newspaper Fifth Estate in Detroit.

In March 2006, played the American rock band The Black Crowes three concerts at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. On March 22, Sinclair enriched the Jam Passage in Nonfiction piece with the recitation of his poem Monk in Orbit. Two days later he went to the same place on to the poem Fat Boy to the psychedelic sounds of the song How Much for Your Wings? carry forward.