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"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=P.F. Sloan: In His Own Words — The Stories Behind the Songs )〕 Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire. This recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965 and released by Dunhill Records. The accompanying musicians were top-tier LA session players: P. F. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine (of Phil Spector's "Wrecking Crew") on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a DJ, who began playing it.〔(Monday, 10 October 2005 4.24 p.m. NZ time Eve of… | barrymcguire's Xanga Site - Weblog )〕 The song was an instant hit and as a result the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded. McGuire's single hit #1 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #3 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1965. ==Background== The song had initially been presented to The Byrds as a Dylanesque potential single, but they rejected it. The Turtles, another LA group who often recorded The Byrds' discarded or rejected material, recorded a version instead. Their version was issued as a track on their 1965 debut album ''It Ain't Me Babe'', shortly before McGuire's version was cut; it was eventually released as a single and hit number 100 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1970. The song was also recorded by Jan and Dean on their album ''Folk 'n Roll'' in 1965, using the same backing track as the McGuire version, and by The Grass Roots on their first album ''Where Were You When I Needed You'' in 1966. McGuire also mentioned that "Eve of Destruction" was recorded in one take on a Thursday morning (from words scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper), and he got a call from the record company at 7:00 the following Monday morning, telling him to turn on the radio—his song was playing.〔McGuire stated this on ''Spicks and Specks'', Australian ABC TV shown on March 12, 2008.〕 Barry McGuire became a born-again Christian, and as a result renounced the song for many years, refusing to perform it. Though he is now known primarily as a singer of contemporary Christian songs, McGuire has resumed singing "Eve of Destruction" in recent years, often updating the lyrics to refer to such events as the Columbine High School massacre. Barry McGuire updated the lyrics when he performed at a reunion of folksingers, with the line about the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches replaced by the words "Columbine, Colorado", referring to the student massacre of 1999. On March 12, 2008, McGuire appeared on the Australian music comedy/game show ''Spicks and Specks'', performing an updated version of "Eve of Destruction", with new lines such as "You're old enough to kill/ you just started voting" and "...can live for ten years in space". The reference to "Red China" was also removed, and in its place were the more generic "Now think of all the hate, still living inside us/ its never too late, to let love guide us". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eve of Destruction (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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