John Phillips
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Edmund Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter.
He is best known for his role in arranging the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival as a founding member and spokesperson of the vocal group The Mamas & Papas.
Early life
Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina, on August 30, 1935. Claude Andrew Phillips, his father, was a retired United States Marine Corps soldier. Claude Phillips won a tavern in Oklahoma from another Marine during a poker game on his way home from France after World War I. Edna Gertrude (née Gaines), a girl from English, met his father in Oklahoma. Papa John, the father of Phillips' autobiography, was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health. According to an article in Vanity Fair that was not backed up by other sources, his biological father may have been Jewish.
Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be "street tough." He attended Linton Hall Military School in Bristow, Virginia, from 1942 to 1946. He "loved the place," quoting "inspections" and "beatings," and recalls that "nuns used to watch us take showers." He formed a musical group of teenage boys who performed doo-wop songs. He played basketball at George Washington High School, later George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he graduated in 1953 and was given an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. However, he resigned early in his first (plebe) year. Phillips then attended Hampden–Sydney College, a liberal arts college for men in Hampden, Virginia, where he dropped out in 1959.
Personal life
On May 7, 1957, Phillips married Susan Adams of a wealthy Virginia family. They had a son, Jeffrey, and a daughter, Mackenzie.
Phillips met teenager Holly Michelle Gilliam, with whom he had an extramarital affair while touring California with The Journeymen. He married Gilliam on December 31, 1962, and she became Michelle Phillips after the affair caused his marriage to Adams' dissolution. Chynna Phillips, the female vocalist of the 1990s pop trio Wilson Phillips, had one child together. In 1965, Denny Doherty and Michelle started a family feud. In May 1969, Phillips and Michelle divorced.
On January 30, 1972, Phillips married Geneviève Wate, his third wife, actress, and model. Tamerlane and Bijou Phillips were the couple's two children. In 1985, Phillips and Wate were divorced.
On February 3, 1995, Phillips married artist Farnaz Arassteh, his fourth wife.
Mackenzie's eldest daughter Mackenzie claimed that she and her father had a 10-year violent and incestuous relationship eight years after Phillips' death in September 2009. Mackenzie's book The "relationship" began in 1979 when she was 19 years old. Phillips assaulted her on the eve of her first marriage, she said the abuse started after Phillips assaulted her while both under the influence of potent narcotics. Mackenzie Phillips said her father injected her with cocaine and opium on September 23, 2009, on The Oprah Winfrey Show. According to Phillips, the sexual assault ended when she became pregnant and didn't know who had fathered the child; rather, these fears led her to an abortion that her father paid for. "I never let him touch me again," she said.
Geneviève Wate, John's wife at the time, denied the charges, saying they were untrue. Michelle Phillips, John's second wife, said she had "every reason to believe [Mackenzie's account is] untrue." Chynna Phillips, Michelle Phillips' daughter, said she accepted Mackenzie's allegations and that Mackenzie first warned her about the sexual assault during a phone call in 1997, almost 11 years since the incident had occurred. Bijou Phillips, Mackenzie's half-sister from her father's marriage to Geneviève Wate, has reported that Mackenzie warned her of the sexual assault when she was 13 years old, stripping her of her innocence and leaving her "wary of [her] father." "I'm 29 now, I've talked to everyone around this time," she continued. "I've asked the tough questions." I do not believe my sister. Several things were [was] missing from our father [was] many things. This is not one of them." Jessica Woods, Denny Doherty's daughter, told her that her father told her that he knew "the horrible truth" and that he was "horrified at what John had done."
Career
Phillips longed to be a success in the music industry and moved to New York to land a record in the early 1960s. With Scott McKenzie and Dick Weissman, he formed The Journeymen, his first band. They were extremely successful, selling three albums and appearing on several shows on the 1960s TV show Hootenanny. Both three albums, as well as a collection titled Best of the Journeymen, have since been reissued on CD. He developed his craft in Greenwich Village, Greenwich, Connecticut, during the American folk music revival, and met future Mamas & the Papas members Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot there around the time. This period is represented by the lyrics of the group's album "Cheeque Alley."
Phillips was the primary songwriter and musical arranger of the Mamas and Papas. Phillips described some of his arrangements as "well-planned two-part harmony moving in opposite directions" in a 1968 interview. They had several Billboard Top Ten hits, including "California Dreamin," "Monday, Monday," "Cereque Alley," and "12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon), among others.
Phillips was instrumental in the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, which took place in Monterey, California, between June 16 and 18, 1967; he appeared with the Mamas and Papas as part of the festival as well. The festival was held in fewer than seven weeks and was conceived as a way to establish rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were perceived. It was the first big pop-rock music festival in history. Lou Adler, a filmmaker from Monte Monterey Pop (1968), also co-produced the film Monte Monterey Pop (1968) with the group's producer Lou Adler.
John and Michelle Phillips were born into Hollywood Hills and spent time with actors including Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Roman Polanski. The Mamas and Papas split up in 1968 largely because Cass Elliot wanted to go solo and because of personal issues involving Phillips, his wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty, including Michelle's affair with Doherty. "Cass confronted me and said, 'I don't get it,'" Michelle Phillips later explained. You may have any man you want.
