“There was about 10 minutes left in the session,” said McGuire, “so I pulled out a sheet of paper in my back pocket with the words of Eve of Destruction” on it and I said, Let”s try this one.” We did one take on it. “Once we”re gone, who”s going to tell people how it all went down?” “I felt the need to get out there and tell the stories of those times,” said McGuire, who will turn 76 in October. 23 with fellow 1960s musician John York of the Byrds in a show to be called “Trippin” the ”60s.” McGuire said that the show will feature many of the landmark songs of the period, punctuated by stories of the rich musical culture that sprang from the ”60s. McGuire comes to the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on Sept. The man forever linked to “Eve of Destruction” is singer/songwriter Barry McGuire, who never again broke the Top 40. The song was called “The Eve of Destruction,” and its plaintive fury at a militaristic world spinning out of control assaulted the American airwaves long before war protests and student uprisings became common. To use an analogy of the period, it was like Wednesday Addams suddenly winning the Miss America pageant. Somehow, among such catchy nuggets of ear candy as “I Got You Babe,” “Hang On Sloopy” and “I”m Henry VIII, I Am,” a ragged anthem of apocalypse snaked its way to Number One status. In September 1965, something quite unexpected - you might even say shocking - happened on the American pop-music charts.
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