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PF Sloan: Rising from 'Destruction'

j. poet, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2006

"PF SLOAN was born sometime between midnight and dawn on an inspired evening in 1964," PF Sloan says, from his small Los Angeles apartment. That was the night he wrote 'Eve Of Destruction', possibly the most famous and definitely the most commercially successful protest song of the '60s, a monster hit for Barry McGuire.

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