John Sinclair — the celebrated counterculture icon, poet, and political activist who advocated for cannabis and rock & roll and managed the MC5 — died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Matt Lee, a ...

John Sinclair, the counterculture activist and former MC5 manager who helped define that proto-punk ensemble’s radical politics, died on Tuesday at 82. Sinclair’s death from congestive heart failure ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a ...

Many of us who knew John Sinclair have a tale or two to tell, and one of mine began in 1965 when I met him and members of his “Guitar Army” at the Detroit Artists Workshop. It would be redundant here ...

At the time of Sinclair's arrest, possession of marijuana was a felony in Michigan, punishable by up to 10 years, the sentence he received. Several days after John Lennon and other musicians performed ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — John Sinclair, the poet whose imprisonment for marijuana inspired the start of Ann Arbor’s long-running annual Hash Bash in the 1970s, has died. He was 82. “It’s a tremendous loss,” ...

His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally. By Michael S. Rosenwald John Sinclair, a ...