Having formed in 1961, Peter, Paul and Mary's achievement was to bring folk music out of the socks-and-sandals division into the commercial mainstream. The two guitarists in the band, Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey, may have appeared unremarkable in their beatnik-style beards; the blonde and willowy Mary Travers, on the other hand, invested the group with a kind of Nordic glamour. Their manager, Albert B Grossman (who was also to handle Bob Dylan), was adamant that she should retain an aura of mystery about her, and insisted that she never spoke on stage.