John Sinclair
Birthday
1941/10/02
Day of death
2024/04/02 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Flint, Michigan, USA
Also know as
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Biography
As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Arrested for distribution of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given t...Read more
Acting
(2002) MC5: A True Testimonial
as Himself
(2007) Off the Road
as ---
(2008) Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
as Self
(2010) Requiem for Detroit?
as Beat Poet
(1999) MC5: Kick Out the Jams
as ---
(1989) Growing Up in America
as Self
(1971) Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
as ---
(2025) One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)