Jesse Colin Young, the renowned guitarist and frontman of the classic rock band The Youngbloods, has passed away at the age of 83. A representative confirmed his d**th to PEOPLE on Sunday, March 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is with deep sadness that we announce music legend Jesse Colin Young, who left a unique mark on the intersecting worlds of folk, blues, jazz, country, and rock & roll, d**d in his home in Aiken, South Carolina yesterday afternoon,\u201d the statement read.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the frontman of The Youngbloods, he immortalized the ideals of the Woodstock generation with \u2018Get Together,\u2019 an international hit that called for peace and brotherhood during the turbulent 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dJesse Colin Young, born Perry Miller on November 22, 1941, in Queens, New York, was a singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the folk-rock band The Youngbloods. His career spanned more than six decades, during which he became a defining voice of the 1960s counterculture movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young grew up in Pennsylvania and later attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts before enrolling at Ohio State University. However, his love for music led him to drop out and pursue a career as a folk musician. In the early 1960s, he released two solo albums, The Soul of a City Boy (1964) and Young Blood (1965), before forming The Youngbloods with guitarist Jerry Corbitt, drummer Joe Bauer, and bassist Lowell Levinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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