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The Mamas and the Papas took a more circuitous route to fame and fortune.
BBC: News | Entertainment | Rock's twisted roots exposed
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Bobby Womack calls himself the "last soul man, " and his 1968 version of The Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreamin'" demonstrates that it's no exaggeration.
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John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful, and Cass Elliott and Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas all started off in the group.
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Eventually, she and her father went to rehab together and she later toured with him in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas, according to People.com.
CNN: Mackenzie Phillips: I had sex with musician dad John Phillips
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The 1967 event was organized by Lou Adler and the late John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas and it was caught on film by documentary filmmaker D.
NPR: The Monterey Pop Festival, 40 Years Later
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The Monterey International Pop Festival, which preceded Woodstock by two years, brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
NPR: The Monterey Pop Festival, 40 Years Later
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Michelle Phillips, a member of the Mamas and the Papas, remembers how Hendrix amazed the crowd and fellow artists with his jaw-dropping performance, playing his guitar on his back, behind his back, lying down and setting the instrument on fire.
NPR: The Monterey Pop Festival, 40 Years Later
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Phillips, the 49-year-old former child star and daughter of the Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips, says she had sex with her father the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979, according to People.com.
CNN: Mackenzie Phillips: I had sex with musician dad John Phillips
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The singer was a close friend of Mamas and Papas star John Phillips, who wrote and produced the San Francisco track.
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