Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVE OF DESTRUCTION (Dunhill). With a belligerence that makes Dylan seem mild-mannered, Barry McGuire declares the nuclear apocalypse at hand. Enumerating signs of deterioration, from Congress to Selma and Red China, he castigates the entire world. Efforts to ban the song from radio have failed, and kids are buying it at the phenomenal rate...
...message? Several million teen-agers do - so loud and clear that Eve of Destruction, as sung by Barry McGuire, is right at the top of the best seller charts. With a dozen more songs of protest snapping close behind, it heralds a radical change for rock 'n' roll. Suddenly, the shaggy ones are high on a soapbox. Tackling everything from the Peace Corps to the P.T.A., foreign policy to domestic morality, they are sniping away in the name of "folk rock" -big-beat music with big-message lyrics. Where once teen-agers were too busy frugging...
...enough to kill, but not for votin' . . . If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave . . . Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction...
That such ticklish themes as Viet Nam and integration are now the lyrical concern of the impressionable young has caused alarm in some quarters. Attempts to impose a blanket ban on Eve of Destruction have failed, but on grounds of taste many radio stations have decided on their own not to play it. Says Los Angeles' Disk Jockey Bob Eubanks: "How do you think the enemy will feel with a tune like that No. 1 in America?" Some rock jockeys play it safe by allotting equal air time to The Dawn of Correction, an "answer song" intoned...
...Decaying Everywhere." Author of Eve of Destruction and 30 other "songs of our times" is P. F. Sloan, 19, who allows that his inspiration comes from being "bugged most of the time." A graduate of the breezy West Coast "surf sound," Sloan traded in his sneakers and sweatshirt for black leather boots and a Hans Brinker cap this spring, set out "to say what I feel," that is, an impression of "a decaying everywhere." Says he: "Society is so confused. There are triple roadblocks and detours wherever you go, and no one knows which road to travel." Viet...