Peter Jeffery (born October 19, 1953) is an American musicologist.
[1] Jeffery graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, and the Performing Arts in New York City,[citation needed] and from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1975, and from Princeton University with an MFA in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Music History in 1980.
[2] On January 25, 1997, Jeffery took his 12-year-old son to a Smashing Pumpkins concert at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut.
He initially planned to wait in a "parents room" but found it was in use by a warm-up act.
He filed a lawsuit against the band, opening acts Fountains of Wayne and The Frogs, Virgin Records, the Coliseum, the city of New Haven, the ear-plug manufacturer, and the vendor he purchased the ear plugs from.