A founding member of one of the first underground rock groups, the Fugs, has died.
Tuli Kupferberg died Monday in a Manhattan hospital at age 86.
His friend and bandmate Ed Sanders said Kupferberg had suffered strokes in the past year.
Although never a commercial success, the Fugs were a regular attraction at anti-war protests in the 1960s. Kupferberg once joked they were "the U.S.O. of the left."
His contributions were recognized in January when Lou Reed, Sonic Youth and others appeared at a benefit concert in Brooklyn to help pay for some of his medical expenses.
Sanders says Kupferberg will be remembered as a unique American songwriter.
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