Passages: Kupferberg founded the Fugs

Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of underground rock group the Fugs and staple of 1960s anti-war protests, died Monday in New York at age 86. He had suffered strokes in the past year.

Kupferberg wrote the songs “Morning, Morning,” “The Garden is Open” and “Kill for Peace.”

He also was a poet, produced cartoons for the Village Voice and had a longtime television program on the Manhattan public access cable channel.

He posted some recent performances, which he called “preverbs,” on YouTube, including, “Backward Jewish Soldiers (Hug your Gentile brothers),” which was his adaptation of the classic, “Onward Christian Soldiers.”