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PHIL OCHS ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

Opher Goodwin

ISBN 978-1-78952-326-3

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Publication: 27 JUNE 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523263
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789522358 Captain Beefheart
On Track (Aug 2022)

• One of the great 1960s protest singers,
second only to Bob Dylan
• A notorious activist, whose life came to a
tragic end

Phil Ochs was the ‘The Prince of Protest’ in the sixties. The
only real rival to Bob Dylan, he was the archetypal
Greenwich Village topical songwriter. Whether protesting
the Vietnam War or campaigning for civil rights, workers’
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ rights and social justice, Phil was always there. Phil was the
man to take up causes, write songs, play at rallies and even
Opher Goodwin is the author of many books on rock music and risk his life.
science fiction and taught the first 'History of Rock Music' classes in
the UK. He was fortunate to spend the sixties in London, the His clear voice and sense of melody, linked with his
epicentre for the underground explosion of rock music and culture, incisive lyrics, created songs of beauty and power. As his
where he was able to see everyone from Pink Floyd, Hendrix and career progressed, with lyrics and music becoming more
Cream to The Doors, Captain Beefheart and Roy Harper. He was highly poetic and sophisticated, he still never lost sight of
introduced to Captain Beefheart in 1967 and attended that first his cause. Towards the end of the sixties he joined with the
amazing gig at Middle Earth. He never fully recovered but now lives YIPPIES in protest against the Vietnam War. But idealism
happily in East Yorkshire, UK. became Phil’s downfall. He was an idealist who could see
no point in continuing if he was unable to make the world a
better place.
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Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. suicide in 1976. Shortly before he took his life, Phil asked
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Phone: 01892 837171 the future. Well here we are; sixty years later, still listening.
The songs of Phil Ochs are every bit as relevant as they
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without notice. 12/01/2024