Barry McGuire Talks About Protest And His War On Evil
David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 30 October 1965
WE WERE talking about protest and folk music. I suggested to Barry McGuire that so many of them are fundamentally silly because they either protest against the perfectly obvious (saying, for example, that war is a bad thing) or present absurd over-simplifications as blinding truths.
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