Michael Brewer, one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, has died. He was 80. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Brewer's musical partner, Tom Shipley, confirmed the news of his death in a Facebook post. A ...
The duo Brewer & Shipley reached the Top 10 in 1971 with “One Toke Over the Line,” a ditty about marijuana that ran afoul of Nixon-era censors. By Alex Williams Michael Brewer, half of the folk-rock ...
Michael Brewer of Brewer & Shipley passed away on Tuesday at the age of 80. The news was confirmed in a press release, noting that Brewer had been battling multiple illnesses for the last three years.
In 1971, a folk-rock song about marijuana found itself at the center of a growing battle over what Americans could hear on the radio. Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line" was released as a ...
Tom Shipley of Brewer & Shipley, the duo best known for the 1971 Top 10 hit "One Toke Over the Line," has died of unspecified causes at the age of 84. The New York Times confirmed the news with ...
On this day (March 13) in 1971, Brewer & Shipley appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time with “One Toke Over the Line.” The song, which is obviously about enjoying a little too much jazz ...
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On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Brewer's death was confirmed on Facebook by his musical partner — and one-half of Brewer & Shipley — Tom Shipley Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
Michael Brewer, half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, who scored an unlikely Top 10 hit in 1970 with "One Toke Over the Line" -- one of the most overt pop odes to marijuana of the hippie era and ...