Eve of Destruction (song): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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* [[Folk rock]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Ian |author1-link=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |date=2007 |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55652-733-3 |edition=Third |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutioninhead0003macd |url-access=registration |page=154}}</ref>

* [[Pop music|pop]]<ref name= "Breihan 2018">{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction"|website= [[Stereogum]] |date= August 14, 2018 |url= https://www.stereogum.com/2009823/the-number-ones-barry-mcguires-eve-of-destruction/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= As a pop song, it’sit's raw and snarly, but it never takes flight the way the best pop music of the era did.|accessdate= June 12, 2023}}</ref>

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| label = {{hlist|[[Dunhill Records|Dunhill]] (USA)|[[RCA Records|RCA Victor]] (outside the USA)}}

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| date = February 19, 1999

| work = The P. F. Sloan Website

}}</ref> Due to its controversial lyrics, some American radio stations banned the song, "claiming it was an aid to the enemy in Vietnam".<ref name="pc33">{{Gilliland|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19792/m1/|title=Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders. [Part 1&#93;]|show=33}}</ref><ref name="Blecha">[[Peter Blecha|Blecha, Peter]]; ''Taboo Tunes/A History of Banned Bands &#x26; Censored Songs''; Backbeat Books, 2004. {{ISBN|0-87930-792-7}}</ref>

==Background==

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==Lyrical references==

* "You’reYou're old enough to kill, but not for votin{{'"}} refers to the United States law requiring registration for the draft at age 18, while the minimum voting age in most states was 21 until the ratification of the [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-sixth Amendment]] in 1971.

* "And even the [[Jordan River]] has bodies floatin{{'"}} refers to the [[War over Water (Jordan River)|War over Water]].

* "If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away." refers to [[mutual assured destruction]].