The most iconic protest song of the volatile 1960s? Any single answer is going to generate major debate, but many ’60s aficionados would likely agree that the list should include Barry McGuire’s 1965 ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. In a lot of ways ...
then take a look around to the Taliban Al Qaeda.” So goes one of the lines of “Eve 2012,” an update by Barry McGuire of his snarling, chart-topping, 1965 protest song “Eve of Destruction.” McGuire ...
A couple weeks ago, on a Sunday night, looking for something on the TV Guide of my television, I saw an upcoming program listed on PBS that was first made in 2015 featuring many of the Folk groups and ...
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CHIMACUM — The singer of one of the 1960s’ most poignant protest anthems is headlining a benefit that is intended to subsidize the operation of the Port Townsend Winter Shelter. “Trippin’ the ’60s,” ...
They had only about 15 minutes left in the rented recording studio. Time for one more song.
A Barry McGuire song debuted in 1965 called “Eve of Destruction.” The premise was that the world was ready to self-destruct. When I first heard it, I thought the songwriter had forgotten his American ...