Eve Of Destruction chords by Barry McGuire

"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P.F. Sloan in 1965. Several artists have recorded it, with the best-known recording being by Barry McGuire. The recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965 and released by Dunhill Records. The accompanying musicians were top-tier LA session players: P.F. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine (of Phil Spector's "Wrecking Crew") on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a DJ, who began playing it. The song was an instant hit and as a result the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded. The song is a grave warning of imminent apocalypse, and considered by some to be the epitome of a protest song. It expressed the frustrations and fears of young people in the age of the Cold War, Vietnam, the nuclear arms race, and the civil rights movement. At the time the song was banned by some radio stations in the USA ("claiming it was an aid to the enemy in Vietnam") and by Radio Scotland in the UK. It was placed on a "restricted list" by the BBC, and could not be played on "general entertainment programmes". The Spokesmen, an American pop music trio, scored a hit single in the U.S. later in 1965 with the tune "Dawn of Correction", a patriotic answer to "Eve of Destruction". The song was written by the group's members, John Medora, David White and Roy Gilmore. The tune reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.