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The Mamas and the Papas broke up in 1968 largely because Cass Elliot wanted to go solo and because of personal problems between Phillips, his wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty, including Michelle's affair with Doherty. John and Michelle Phillips became Hollywood celebrities, living in the Hollywood Hills and socializing with stars such as Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Roman Polanski. He also co-produced the film Monterey Pop (1968) with the group's producer Lou Adler. It was the first major pop-rock music event in history. The festival was planned in just seven weeks, and was developed as a way to validate rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were regarded. Phillips helped promote the Monterey International Pop Music Festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, in Monterey, California he performed with the Mamas and the Papas as part of the event as well. After being signed to Dunhill, they had several Billboard Top Ten hits, including ' California Dreamin'', ' Monday, Monday', ' I Saw Her Again', ' Creeque Alley', and ' 12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)'. In a 1968 interview, Phillips described some of his arrangements as 'well-arranged two-part harmony moving in opposite directions'. Phillips was the primary songwriter and musical arranger of the Mamas and the Papas. Lyrics of the group's song ' Creeque Alley' describe this period. He developed his craft in Greenwich Village, during the American folk music revival, and met future Mamas & the Papas members Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot there around that time. All three albums, as well as a compilation titled Best of the Journeymen, have since been reissued on CD.

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They were fairly successful, putting out three albums, and had several appearances on the 1960s TV show Hootenanny. His first band, The Journeymen, was a folk trio, with Scott McKenzie and Dick Weissman.

Phillips longed to have success in the music industry and traveled to New York to gain a record contract in the early 1960s. Phillips then attended Hampden–Sydney College, a liberal arts college for men in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, dropping out in 1959. However, he resigned during his first (plebe) year. He played basketball at George Washington High School, now George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. According to his autobiography, he 'hated the place,' citing 'inspections,' and 'beatings,' and recalls that 'nuns used to watch us take showers.' He formed a musical group of teenage boys, who sang doo-wop songs. Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be 'street tough.' From 1942 to 1946, he attended Linton Hall Military School in Bristow, Virginia. According to an article in Vanity Fair not substantiated by other sources, his biological father may have been Jewish. According to Phillips's autobiography, Papa John, his father was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health. His mother, Edna Gertrude (née Gaines), who had English ancestry, met his father in Oklahoma. On his way home from France following World War I, Claude Phillips managed to win a tavern located in Oklahoma from another Marine during a poker game. His father, Claude Andrew Phillips, was a retired United States Marine Corps officer. Phillips was born August 30, 1935, in Parris Island, South Carolina.