Profile
John Phillips
Musician and Songwriter
Male
Born
Aug 30, 1935
Hometown
Parris Island, So...
Died
Mar 18, 2001
Death Place
Los Angeles
Genres
Traditional folk ...
Instruments
Singing + Guitar
Performed With
The Mamas & the P...
John Edmund Andrew Phillips, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter, most notably of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas. He was the father… Read More
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Susan AdamsMarried 1953
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John Phillips
d.2001
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1935
Birth
Born on August 30, 1935.
1942
6 Years Old
Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be "street tough". From 1942 to 1946, he attended Linton Hall Military School in Bristow, Va.; according to his autobiography, he "hated the place" and cited "inspections" and "beatings," and recalls that "nuns used to watch us take showers."
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TEENAGE
1953
17 Years Old
He played basketball at George Washington High School, where he graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy.
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TWENTIES
1962
26 Years Old
While touring California with The Journeymen, he met the woman who would become his second wife, the teenage Michelle Gilliam, with whom he had an extramarital affair. Their affair forced the dissolution of his first marriage, and he married Michelle in 1962 and would stay with her until 1970.
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THIRTIES
1966
30 Years Old
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Michelle had been fired briefly in 1966, for having had affairs with both Gene Clark and Doherty, and was replaced for a period of 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 in 1968.
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John Phillips also wrote "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", in 1967 for former The Journeyman band mate, Scott McKenzie. "San Francisco" is widely regarded as emblematic of 1960s American counterculture music.
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1970
34 Years Old
Phillips released his first solo album John, the Wolf King of L.A. in 1970.
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1973
37 Years Old
Phillips moved to London in 1973; Mick Jagger encouraged him to record another solo album.
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1975
39 Years Old
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.
FORTIES
1976
40 Years Old
Phillips asked Mick Taylor to help out; the film was released in 1976.
1979
43 Years Old
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She stated that the relationship began when she was 19 years old in 1979, after Phillips raped her while they were both under the influence of heavy narcotics on the eve of her first marriage.
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1981
45 Years Old
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.
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1985
49 Years Old
Phillips was divorced from Waite in 1985.
FIFTIES
1992
56 Years Old
In the 1990s, his years of addiction led to the need for a liver transplant in 1992.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1997
61 Years Old
Chynna Phillips, Mackenzie's half-sister, stated that she believed Mackenzie's statements and that Mackenzie first told her about the relationship during a phone conversation in 1997, approximately 11 years after the supposed relationship had ended.
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John Phillips died on March 18, 2001 in Los Angeles of heart failure at the age of 65.
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