In a meteoric career that lasted barely two years grew The Mamas & The Papas into icons of hippies. The California polyphonic choir symbolizes both the temptations and pitfalls of free love; their songs are decades later upright as beautiful idyllic odes to love and sunshine. Who wants to know how the final occupation came about only need to listen to the single Creeque Alley, a song that also gives
… a good impression of the local folk scene of the sixties. Changing relationships within the band made sure that soon the curtain fell after several highly successful singles (California Dreaming, Monday Monday). The obese figurehead Mama Cass Elliott died in 1974 of a heart attack.more