The folksinger, one third of Peter, Paul and Mary, has died after a battle with leukaemia, aged 72. Travers was an outspoken supporter of the civil rights and anti-war movements. “I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honoured beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career,” Noel “Paul” Stookey said. (BBC obituary).