Mamas and Papas' Doherty dies at 66

[becca]

This has been a great shock to many of us who are fans and aquaintances of Denny's. He was still performing on stage and making appearances a very short time before this.

CNN's "the 30-year-old Elliot choked and suffered a fatal heart attack while eating a sandwich in London" is totally inappropriate and false, it would make Denny really angry I'm sure that his own death would be an occaision to trot out this stupid sandwich story. Cass Elliot died of a heart attack in the bed she was sleeping in, her heart was weakened from dieting and strained from strenuous travelling and performing. They even have her age wrong. This is nothing surprising, the big media can't be bothered to be accurate about details anymore. It would be wonderful if they were wrong about Denny's sudden death though!

Denny was first a member of The Halifax Three (later The Halifax Three Plus One, the one being fellow Canadian Zalman Yanovsky later guitarist with The Lovin' Spoonful) who recorded with Epic records, and one of The Mugwumps (with Zal and Cass Elliot) released by Warner Brothers, leaving that group to join John and Michelle Phillips in The New Journeymen. Denny co-wrote I Saw Her Again with John Phillips and the song he sang lead on with The Mamas And Papas I remember the best is Dancing Bear.