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Barry Mcguire performs his hit Eve of Destruction on the NBC music show Hullabaloo (1965). The song was written by P. F. Sloan in 1965 when he was 19.
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Mar 10, 2013 · 98K. 11M views 11 years ago. Subscribe to The Best Of for more classic music history, videos and playlists: http://bit.ly/WdJ36u "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan. Barry...
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Eve of Destruction Lyrics: The Eastern world, it is explodin' / Violence flarin', bullets loadin' / You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' / You don't believe in war, but what's that gun...
22K. 1.6M views 7 years ago #BarryMcGuire. "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964. [ Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was...
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Several artists have recorded it, but the most popular recording was by Barry McGuire, on which Sloan played guitar. The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights Movement, turmoil in the Middle East and the American space program.
Dec 7, 2009 · Eve 2012 (Eve Of Destruction) Barry McGuire. 44 years after the original, Brian McGuire released this new take on his 1965 hit “Eve of Destruction”. Released in 2009, the “2012” in the ...
Violence flarin', bullets loadin', You're old enough to kill but not for votin', You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin', And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin', But you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
