Phil Ochs must be rolling in his grave to have his words so misused and abused in Ned Lamb's opinion piece. First of all, when Ochs declared, "I ain't marching anymore," he wasn't giving up protests.
Late in his short life, Phil Ochs, one of the shining lights of the Greenwich Village folk protest movement, worried whether his songs would be remembered. The news from four decades on is good. Neil ...
When folksinger Phil Ochs wrote: “It’s always the old who lead us to the war, it’s always the young who fall/ Now look at all we’ve won with a saber and the gun, tell me is it worth it all?” he helped ...
I remember Phil Ochs well, but not many people who are not of my generation do. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune on PBS' American Masters January 23rd will give those who remember the 60's and 70's a ...
I know there’s a lot of Dylan in the air these days, and I’m happy about that. But after seeing I know there’s a lot of Dylan in the air these days, and I’m happy about that. But after seeing Scorsese ...
His action for change lead the man to do a plethora of avante-garde stunts and charity work, including an amusing yet powerful organized “War is Over” campaign in 1967 during the height of the Vietnam ...
The late Phil Ochs used to boast that most of his songs were inspired by reading Newsweek. He sang about Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement, and preferred to be called a "singing journalist" rather ...
The late Philip David “Phil” Ochs was an icon of the American folk music movement who took his own life in 1976 after years battling a number of problems, including bipolar disorder and alcoholism. He ...
A look at one of the entries that fooled solvers in last week’s puzzles. By Deb Amlen The crossword entry OCHS has appeared in the New York Times Crossword a total of 155 times, clued at times as the ...
A dark shadow hangs over Kenneth Bowser’s documentary portrait “Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune.” It isn’t the 1976 suicide of the singer, who gained a modest amount of prominence in the 1960s with ...