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Thursday 4 September 2014

For the attention of a Phil Ochs Heretic ( Old Fella) plus, as a bonus, Ochs jamming with John Lennon.

There are a few of us who still believe, like  Neil Young, that this guy was one of the finest poets of his generation, eclipsed in Nanci Griffith words by, "The Midnight boy from Minnesota", whom he helped and gave a bed to when he first arrived in Greenwich Village. Others doubt the quality of his voice and dismiss him as a forgotten protest singer. I disagree with both, although his voice was later damaged when he was strangled and left for dead on a beach in Tanzania and lost the upper range of his vocal chords (conspiracy theorists blame this attempted murder on the FBI who subsequent archives have revealed held a massive file on him).
 Firstly lets listen to the voice and the poetry and the differing themes explored in this piece similar to Shelly, Keats or Browning.













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