8/6/2023 0 Comments Barry mcguire on npr echoesThree hours later, everyone was yelling and screaming. Jay Lasker, president of Dunhill Records, heard it, and asked to borrow it. I brought in a reel-to-reel copy the next day, and played it in my office. We gave him a lyrics sheet, and asked him to lay it down as a rough cut, with the idea that we’d record it full-up later. Following are edited excerpts from a longer conversation. I got on the phone with Barri, now 80, yesterday to revisit the tune. The famous Brill Building duo of Steve Barri and Phil Sloan penned it. Contrary to what most people think, McGuire didn’t write the song, only performed it. With the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, that’s been the case over the last two weeks. Lines like, “Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say/Don’t you feel the fears that I’m feeling today/If the button is pushed, there’s no running away/There’ll be no one to save, with the world in a grave/Take a look around you, boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy.” From time to time, when world events ignite fears of the unthinkable - nuclear war - “Eve of Destruction” gets airplay again. It’s basically a protest tune about the sixties, but with some ominous international overtones. In 1965, an artist named Barry McGuire recorded a song called “Eve of Destruction,” which came out of nowhere and, within weeks, rocketed up the U.S. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers) Getty Images 379631 08: Atomic cloud rises Jduring the "Baker Day" blast at Bikini Island in the.
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