Wednesday 13 April 2011

Phil Ochs in the News

'Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune' a sobering look at a '60s folk singer
Kansas City Star
Sixties troubadour Phil Ochs desperately wanted stardom but lived in the shadow of Bob Dylan. But Phil Ochs, who in the early '60s was every bit as ...

'60s singer Phil Ochs doc at Cinema Arts
Newsday
By RAFER GUZMÁN Though not the most famous musical figure of the 1960s, the protest singer Phil Ochs was one of the most emblematic ...

Poet of protest: 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune' chronicles the life and times of folk singer
New York Daily News
Phil Ochs — sometimes Dylan's friend, sometimes his rival, sometimes his target and forever his compadre from the 1960s Greenwich Village music world — had ...

Documentary shines light on '60s folk singer Phil Ochs - PopMatters
By Rafer Guzman
NEW YORK — Though not the most famous musical figure of the 1960s, the protest singer Phil Ochs was one of the most emblematic. He began the decade raising his voice against injustice and war, but ended it feeling increasingly voiceless ...

Remembering Phil Ochs, 35 Years After His Death | The New Republic
By David Hajdu
Thirty-five years ago this Saturday, Phil Ochs, the earnest singing polemicist of the 1960s, hung himself. He suffered from depression and other emotional ...
www.tnr.com/blog/the-famous.../phil-ochs-bob-dylan-protest

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