John Phillips

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Holland Tunnel 00:00 Tools
Mississippi 00:00 Tools
Topanga Canyon 00:00 Tools
April Anne 00:00 Tools
Malibu People 00:00 Tools
Someone's Sleeping 00:00 Tools
Drum 00:00 Tools
Down The Beach 00:00 Tools
Let It Bleed, Genevieve 00:00 Tools
Zulu Warrior 00:00 Tools
Jazz II 00:00 Tools
Captain (The Mermaid) 00:00 Tools
California Dreamin' 00:00 Tools
Shady 00:00 Tools
Lonely Children 00:00 Tools
Black Girl 00:00 Tools
Lady Genevieve 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman 00:00 Tools
16mm Baby 00:00 Tools
She's Just 14 00:00 Tools
Captain 00:00 Tools
Oh Virginia 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal And Me 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction 00:51 Tools
Wilderness of Love 03:48 Tools
Pussycat 00:00 Tools
Sunset Boulevard 00:00 Tools
Mississippi (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
2001 00:00 Tools
Boys From The South 01:44 Tools
Revolution On Vacation 00:00 Tools
Mr. Blue 00:00 Tools
Me and My Uncle 00:00 Tools
Cup Of Tea 00:00 Tools
Very Dread 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Fell To Earth 00:00 Tools
John Phillips Dialog From "A Gathering Of Flowers - The Anthology Of The Mamas And The Papas" 00:00 Tools
Mister Blue 00:00 Tools
California Dreamin' (as made famous by The Mamas & The Papas) 00:00 Tools
America 00:00 Tools
Last Of The Unnatural Acts 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Rhumba Boogie 00:00 Tools
Liar, Liar 00:00 Tools
Chinatown 00:00 Tools
Black Broadway 00:00 Tools
Yesterday I Left The Earth 00:00 Tools
Space Capsule 00:00 Tools
Jazz 00:00 Tools
Desert Shack 00:00 Tools
Devil's on the Loose 00:00 Tools
Babies 00:00 Tools
Alberto 00:00 Tools
Love Is Coming Back 00:00 Tools
Slow Starter 00:00 Tools
Window 00:00 Tools
Bluegrass Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Average Man 00:00 Tools
Captain - The Mermaid 00:00 Tools
Hello Mary Lou 00:00 Tools
Too Bad 00:00 Tools
There Is A Place 00:00 Tools
Jack of Diamonds (Me and My Uncle) 00:00 Tools
Mississippi - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Marooned (Double Parked) 00:00 Tools
She Got She 00:00 Tools
First And Last Thing You Do (Holland Tunnel) 00:00 Tools
Feather Your Nest 00:00 Tools
If 00:00 Tools
Campy California 00:00 Tools
Andy's Talkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Gram's Song 00:00 Tools
Whiskey, Wine & Champagne 00:00 Tools
Mr Blue 00:00 Tools
Holland Tunnel - John Phillips 00:00 Tools
Shady - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
California Dreaming 00:00 Tools
Lonely Children - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
California Dreamin' (Made Famous by The Mamas & The Papas) 00:00 Tools
Campy California (Aerospace) 00:00 Tools
Song Of Introduction 00:00 Tools
Black Girl - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
Cup Of Tea (Skyjacked) 00:00 Tools
Stepping To The Stars/Penthouse Of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Lady Genevieve - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
16mm Baby - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
Oh Andy My Assistant 00:00 Tools
Kokomo 00:00 Tools
Jack Of Diamonds - Me And My Uncle 00:00 Tools
Promise Not To Tell 00:00 Tools
Susan, Susan 00:00 Tools
Midnight Deadline Blastoff 00:00 Tools
Shady [#][*] 00:00 Tools
Mailbu People 00:00 Tools
Mississippi - (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
This Christmas Count On Me 00:00 Tools
Mission Control 00:00 Tools
Speed Of Light 00:00 Tools
Mississippi (Single Version) - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal And Me - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
San Francisco 00:00 Tools
John Phillips Dialog From "A Gathering Of Flowers" 00:00 Tools
Shady (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
Go Now! 00:00 Tools
Welcome To The Moon Man 00:00 Tools
Shady (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Star Stepping Stranger 00:00 Tools
Marooned - Double Parked 00:00 Tools
Time Machine (Cutting Ahead) 00:00 Tools
Black Girl (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
Lonely children (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
Campy California - Aerospace 00:00 Tools
Lady Genevieve (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Lady genevieve (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
16mm Baby [#][*] 00:00 Tools
The Last of the Unnatural Acts 00:00 Tools
Lonely Children (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Conversations in Styrofoam 00:00 Tools
Me And My Uncle - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
Revival Time 00:00 Tools
Black Girl (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Me And My Uncle (Jack Of Diamonds) 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal And Me (bonus) 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Devil’s On The Loose 00:00 Tools
Cup Of Tea - Skyjacked 00:00 Tools
Close Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
She Could Use Who She Wanted (piano/vocal version) 00:00 Tools
Flawless Space (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Flawless Space - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
She Could Use Who She Wanted 00:00 Tools
Another George Street Night 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction (Monterrey Pop Festival 1967) 00:00 Tools
Stepping Through The Stars 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction (Live) 00:00 Tools
Art Kills 00:00 Tools
Handcuffs 00:00 Tools
How Old Were You (When You Thought You Knew?) 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal and Me (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
Mississippi (Single Version) (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Truth Cannot Be Treason 00:00 Tools
Penthouse of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Church of Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Shooting Star 00:00 Tools
Mississippi (Single Version) (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
16mm Baby (Bonustrack) 00:00 Tools
Hello Mary Lou (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
A Myth Amongst The Family Of Man 00:00 Tools
Eternity 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: 16mm Baby 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Shady 00:00 Tools
Frankie 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Lady Genevieve 00:00 Tools
Chinaman 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal and Me [Unfinished Instrumental][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Flawless Space 00:00 Tools
Storm Cellar 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Lonely Children 00:00 Tools
Don't Turn Back Now (World's Greatest Dancer) 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Black Girl 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: The Frenchman 00:00 Tools
If King Can Can, Who Can't? - My Name Is Can 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Demo) 00:00 Tools
First And Last Thing You Do - Holland Tunnel 00:00 Tools
Yachts 00:00 Tools
It Was? 00:00 Tools
Me And My Uncle (Jack Of Diamonds) (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Monday, Monday - California Dreamin' (arr. R. Balcombe for vocals and orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Larry, Joe, Hal and Me (Unfinished Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
I'm On The Cover Of Newsweek, Mom 00:00 Tools
Shes Just 14 00:00 Tools
Love Song 00:00 Tools
Overture 00:00 Tools
If King Can Can, Who Can't? (My Name Is Can) 00:00 Tools
Royal Astronomer's Waltz (Canis Minor Bolaris Waltz) 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Fell To Earth - Demo 00:00 Tools
Topanga 00:00 Tools
I Wish 00:00 Tools
Title Theme 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Fell To Earth - デモ 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track: Mississippi (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Royal Astronomer's Waltz - Canis Minor Bolaris Waltz 00:00 Tools
Wee Funky Little Bats 00:00 Tools
Fantastic Four 00:00 Tools
John Phillips dialog from 'A Gathering of Flowers - The Anthology Of The Mamas And The Papas' 00:00 Tools
Stepping to the Stars / Penthouse of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Mississippi (by John Phillips) 02:41 Tools
Monday, Monday 00:00 Tools
American Man on the Moon 00:00 Tools
Oh Virginia - false 00:00 Tools
Wilderness Of Love - false 00:00 Tools
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) 00:00 Tools
Peppermint Wind 00:00 Tools
John Phillips Dialog from "A Gathering of Flowers -- The Anthology Of 00:00 Tools
Not Too Cool 00:00 Tools
She's Just 14 - false 00:00 Tools
Christmas On the Island 00:00 Tools
Put the Past Behind You 00:00 Tools
8. Captain (The Mermaid) 00:00 Tools
2001 - false 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal and Me [#][*][Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
The Only Thing Missing Is You 00:00 Tools
Blast Off 00:00 Tools
Pussycat - false 00:00 Tools
Hello, Mary Lou - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Girls 00:00 Tools
Wee Funkie Little Bats 00:00 Tools
Love Life 00:00 Tools
Mr. Blue - false 00:00 Tools
Elephants and Donleys 00:00 Tools
Gram`s Song 00:00 Tools
Fairy Tale Girl (Somewhere Near Japan) 00:00 Tools
She’s Just 14 00:00 Tools
Rockin' the Rock 00:00 Tools
Crying In The Shower 00:00 Tools
Flowers 00:00 Tools
Fairy Tale Girl - Somewhere Near Japan 00:00 Tools
My Name Is Can 00:00 Tools
Frenchman 00:00 Tools
Avondale Road 00:00 Tools
Don’t Turn Back Now (World’s Greatest Dancer) 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon (No Dough) 00:00 Tools
Festival Introductions 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon (No Dough) (The Mamas And The Papas) 00:00 Tools
The Elephants and the Donkeys 00:00 Tools
Zulu Warrior - false 00:00 Tools
Whiskey, Wine and Champagne 00:00 Tools
Sunset Boulevard - false 00:00 Tools
New Frontier 00:00 Tools
Reconstruction 00:00 Tools
Someones Sleeping 00:00 Tools
Mr. Blue - Extra Track 00:00 Tools
Buckboard Chase 00:00 Tools
Hello Mary Lou - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Kwella 00:00 Tools
Time Machine - Cutting Ahead 00:00 Tools
Me Oh My, This Learning to Fly 00:00 Tools
The Cable 00:00 Tools
Time Machine (Cutting Ahead) (Bonus Track) - false 00:00 Tools
2001 - Extra Track 00:00 Tools
Ballad Of A Tall Man 00:00 Tools
Paint Box Jester 00:00 Tools
The Rock 00:00 Tools
Mississippi ((Single Version)) 00:00 Tools
Starburst 00:00 Tools
She Got She - The Game Of Love 00:00 Tools
Sunny, Sunny Moon 00:00 Tools
Down On The Beach 00:00 Tools
Shady (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
She`s Just 14 00:00 Tools
Willow Brook 00:00 Tools
Scaramouche 00:00 Tools
Pre Ante Pen Ultimatum 00:00 Tools
The Bird With Plastic Feathers 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Penthouse Of Your Mind - Version 1 00:00 Tools
The Universe 00:00 Tools
Dont Turn Back Now - Worlds Greatest Dancer 00:00 Tools
Shady [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Black Girl [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Whisper To The Wind 00:00 Tools
Mulberry Avenue 00:00 Tools
Lady Genevieve [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Permutation Child 00:00 Tools
Chinatown [#] 00:00 Tools
Look At The Time Fly 00:00 Tools
Though I'm A Little Angel 00:00 Tools
Sylvia 00:00 Tools
Susan, Susan - false 00:00 Tools
Soldier of Tortured Anger 00:00 Tools
Lonely Children (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Wolf King Of LA - 01 - April Anne 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction (Monterey 06-16-67) 00:00 Tools
If you're going to San Fransisco 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal and Me (Unfinished Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
02 - Topanga Canyon 00:00 Tools
The Frenchman (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Lonely Children [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Too Bad [#] 00:00 Tools
Me & My Uncle 00:00 Tools
Revolution on Vacation [#] 00:00 Tools
Marooned (Double Parked) [#] 00:00 Tools
Jack of Diamonds (Me and My Uncle) [#] 00:00 Tools
Topange Canyon ( John Phillips) 00:00 Tools
Very Dread - false 00:00 Tools
Feather Your Nest (Bonus Track) - false 00:00 Tools
Shooting Gallery 00:00 Tools
John Phillips Dialog From 'A Gathering Of Flowers: The Anthology Of The Mamas And The Papas' 00:00 Tools
Let it Bleed Genevieve 00:00 Tools
She Got She (The Game Of Love) 00:00 Tools
16mm Baby [bonus prev. unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Black Broadway [#] 00:00 Tools
01 00:00 Tools
02 00:00 Tools
Black Girl (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Dialog from "A Gathering of Flowers - The Anthology of the Mamas and the Papas" 00:00 Tools
Bryce 00:00 Tools
10 00:00 Tools
Liar Liar (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Star Stepping Stranger / Convent 00:00 Tools
One Day At A Time (Theme From) 00:00 Tools
Pie Throwing/The Train 00:00 Tools
Fantastic Four (The Mamas And The Papas) 00:00 Tools
Don't Turn Back Now (World's Greatest Dancer) (Bonus Track) - false 00:00 Tools
Hello Mary Lou (Instrumental) (Bonus Track) - false 00:00 Tools
Stepping To The Stars,Penthouse Of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction (Live at Monterey Pop Festival) 00:00 Tools
Me And My Uncle - Bonustrack 00:00 Tools
Mister Blues 00:00 Tools
No Dough (Honeymoon) 00:00 Tools
Mississippi [bonus prev. unreleased Single Version] 00:00 Tools
If You're Going to San Francisco 00:00 Tools
Last of the Unnatural Acts [*] 00:00 Tools
Devil's on the Loose [#] 00:00 Tools
05 00:00 Tools
03 00:00 Tools
Liar Liar (Bonus Track) - false 00:00 Tools
Cup of Tea (Skyjacked) [#] 00:00 Tools
Yesterday I Left the Earth [#] 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal And Me [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Campy California (Aerospace) [#] 00:00 Tools
Festival Introduction [Live] 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal & Me [bonus prev. unreleased Unfinished Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Larry, Joe, Hal And Me (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Penthouse Of Your Mind - Version 2 00:00 Tools
Someone`s Sleeping 00:00 Tools
Hello Mary Lou (Instrumental) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Grams Song 00:00 Tools
Mississippi - Original single version, first time on CD 03:07 Tools
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John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001), was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas. Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina. His father was a retired United States Marine Corps officer who won an Oklahoma bar from another Marine in a poker game on the way home from France after World War I. His mother was a Cherokee Native his father met in Oklahoma. According to his autobiography, Papa John, Phillips' father was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health. Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be "street tough". He formed a group of teenage boys, who also sang doo-wop songs. He played basketball at George Washington High School, where he graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. However, he resigned during his first (plebe) year. Phillips then attended Hampden-Sydney College on a partial athletic scholarship, but dropped out and married his first of four wives: Susan Adams, the daughter of a wealthy Virginia family. They had a son, Jeffrey, and a daughter, Laura Mackenzie (known as "Mackenzie") Phillips. Phillips longed to have success in the music industry and traveled to New York to find a record contract in the early 1960s. His first band, The Journeymen, was a folk trio, with Scott Mckenzie and Dick Weismann. They were fairly successful, putting out 3 albums and several appearance on the 1960s TV show, Hootenanny. All three albums, as well as a "Best of the Journeymen" were reissued on CD. He developed his craft in Greenwich Village, during the American folk music revival, and met his future The Mamas & the Papas bandmates Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot there. Lyrics of their song "Creeque Alley" describe this period. While touring California with The Journeymen, he met his future second wife, the teenage Michelle Gilliam. Their affair finally forced the dissolution of his first marriage. Phillips was married to Michelle Phillips from 1962 to 1970. They had one child together, Chynna Phillips, vocalist of the 1990s' pop trio Wilson Phillips. Phillips was the primary songwriter and musical arranger of The Mamas & the Papas. Early in the band's history, John and Michelle were responsible for writing most of the band's songs. John would often come up with a melody and some lyrics and Michelle would help him complete the lyrical portion of the song. After being signed to Dunhill Records, they had several Billboard Top Ten hits during the group's short lifetime, including "California Dreamin'", "Monday, Monday", "I Saw Her Again", "Creeque Alley", and "12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)". John Phillips also wrote "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", the 1967 Scott McKenzie hit that was to become the Summer of Love anthem. Phillips also wrote the oft-covered "Me and My Uncle", which was the song performed more times than any other over 30 years of Grateful Dead concerts. The Phillipses became Hollywood celebrities, living in the Hollywood Hills and socializing with stars like Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Roman Polanski. The group broke up largely because Cass Elliot wanted to go solo and because of some personal problems among Phillips, Michelle, and Denny Doherty. Michelle had been fired briefly in 1966, for having had affairs with both Gene Clark and Denny, and was replaced for two months by Jill Gibson, their producer Lou Adler's girlfriend. Although Michelle was forgiven and asked to return to the group, the personal problems would continue until the band split up in 1968. Cass Elliot went on to have a successful solo career until her death from heart failure in 1974. Phillips released his first solo album John, the Wolf King of L.A. in 1970. The album was not commercially successful, although it did include the minor hit "Mississippi", and Phillips began to withdraw from the limelight as his use of narcotics increased. Actress Geneviève Waïte became his third wife in 1972. The couple had two children, Tamerlane and Bijou Phillips. Reportedly, both parents were drug addicts and infidelity marked their marriage. Phillips produced a Genevieve Waite album, Romance Is On the Rise and wrote music for films. Between 1969 and 1974, Phillips and Waite worked on a script and composed over 30 songs for a space-themed musical called Man On The Moon, which was eventually produced by Andy Warhol but played for just two days in New York after receiving disastrous opening night reviews. Phillips moved to London in 1973; Mick Jagger encouraged him to record another solo album. It was to be released on Rolling Stones Records and funded by RSR distributor Atlantic Records. Jagger and Keith Richards would produce and play on the album, as well as former Stone Mick Taylor and future Stone Ronnie Wood. The project was derailed by Phillips' increasing use of cocaine and heroin, substances that he shot into his body, by his own admission, "almost every fifteen minutes for two years". In 2001, the tracks of the Half Stoned or The Lost Album album were released as Pay Pack & Follow a few months after Phillips' death. In 1975 Phillips, still living in London, was commissioned to create the soundtrack to the Nicolas Roeg film The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie. Phillips asked Mick Taylor to help out; the film was released in 1976. In 1981 Phillips was convicted of drug trafficking; subsequently, he and his television star daughter Mackenzie Phillips made the rounds in the media, instructing kids and their parents how not to become addicts. This public relations campaign helped reduce his prison time to only a month in jail. Upon release, he re-formed The Mamas & the Papas, with Mackenzie Phillips, Spanky McFarlane (of the group Spanky and Our Gang) and Denny Doherty. Throughout the rest of his life, Phillips toured with various versions of this group. Phillips was divorced from Waite in 1985. In 1986, his best-selling autobiography, Papa John, was published. With Terry Melcher, Mike Love and his former Journeyman colleague Scott McKenzie, he co-wrote the number 1 single for the Beach Boys, "Kokomo", which was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Song Written specifically for a Motion Picture or Television category (it lost to Phil Collins's "Two Hearts", from the film "Buster"). In the 1990s, his years of addiction led to the need for a liver transplant in 1992. Several months later, however, he was photographed drinking alcohol in a bar in Palm Springs, California, as published in the National Enquirer newspaper. Phillips was questioned about the photo on the Howard Stern radio show, and explained, "I was just trying to 'break in' the new liver". The Mamas and the Papas were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame on Jan 12th, 1998. John Phillips died on March 18, 2001 in Los Angeles of heart failure at the age of 65. He is interred in an outdoor crypt at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near Palm Springs, California, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Farnaz. He died just days after completing sessions for a new album. Phillips 66 was released posthumously in August 2001. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.