Peter Ivers

A cult waiting to happen, musician and performance artist Peter Ivers was born in Boston in 1946. During the mid-'60s, while a classics (ancient Greek) major at Harvard University, he launched his performing career playing harmonica in the local band Beacon Street Union, one of a number of Boston-area psychedelic bands influenced by San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene. Signing to MGM, Beacon Street Union issued the little-noticed LP The Clown Died in Mervin Gardens before dissolving; Ivers then surfaced as a member of the Street Choir before mounting a solo career. He signe...