PHIL OCHS - Power And The Glory (1974)

Who is the man singing with Phil ?

Life of Phil Ochs need a movie

Does anyone know who wrote this song and when? I distinctly remember hearing it in 1968.

Written by Phil Ochs, on the album All The News Thats Fit To Sing, originally released 1964 according to the sleeve notes I'm reading now.

Is that Curtis Mayfield giving the introduction? What show was this??

This was not long before Phil hung himself. This was in his words, "The Most Important Song", and I'd vote for it for National Anthem, myself. Phil was a bipolar, brilliant and self-medicated with alcohol. He was acutely depressed at this point, and we lost him when we needed him most of all.

I guess that depends on how you define "not long." Phil died just ten days short of two years after this performance.

By the end of his life, Phil was a threat to passers-by (he was arrested on an assault charge during his John Butler Train era) and woefully self-destructive, but he'd lost his voice, literally and figuratively. No one in power really cared about Ochs by the time he died. That the FBI still had a file says more about bureaucratic inefficiency than it measures Ochs' threat. It was a tragic ending to a life that gave us some brilliant songs.

The theory of Phil's murder stems back to Nixon's view of the counterculture as domestic terrorists and his directive to do whatever was necessary to end that threat. Evidence suggests the CIA had been experimenting with an LSD that induced severe mental breakdown in its users, and the dissemination of those drugs by undercover ops to the "leaders" of the counterculture. Thus, their effects would take time to manifest, and would account for Phil's sudden onset of multiple-personality disorder.

eh?

Beautiful.