P.F. Sloan
Jeff Tamarkin, Harp, September 2006
PF SLOAN was a 19-year-old bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders when he wrote the protest classic 'Eve of Destruction' back in 1965. It kicked up a shit storm of controversy and even provoked the "answer" song 'The Dawn of Correction'.
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