{"id":2318551,"date":"2026-03-08T18:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318551"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:05:18","slug":"woodstock-legend-country-joe-mcdonald-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/woodstock-legend-country-joe-mcdonald-dead-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Country Joe McDonald, the lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/celebrity-news\/celebrity-deaths-2026-actors-singers-and-stars-we-lost-this-year\/\">has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic singer, who co-founded the band known for its 1960s psychedelic folk rock and memorable 1969 Woodstock performance, died Saturday evening, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/08\/country-joe-mcdonald-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His cause of death is unclear.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8792401\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The singer, born Joseph Allen McDonald, was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Country Joe and the Fish was one of the most influential groups in the San Francisco music scene in the mid to late \u201960s, addressing counterculture issues like protesting the Vietnam War and recreational drug use.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re known for songs like \u201cI-Feel-Like-I\u2019m-Fixin\u2019-to-Die Rag,\u201d one of the the era\u2019s most recognizable anti-Vietnam War protest songs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This story is developing\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Joe McDonald, the lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish, has died. The iconic singer, who co-founded the band known for its 1960s psychedelic folk rock and memorable 1969 Woodstock performance, died Saturday evening, TMZ reported. His cause of death is unclear. The singer, born Joseph Allen McDonald, was 84 years old. Country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21800,346008],"class_list":["post-2318551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-music","tag-woodstock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Woodstock-legend-Country-Joe-McDonald-dead-at-84.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318553,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318551\/revisions\/2318553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}