| "The War Is Over" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Phil Ochs | |
| from the album Tape from California | |
| Published | 1968 |
| Released | 1968 |
| Genre | Protest song |
| Length | 4:25 |
| Label | A&M |
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs |
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks |
| "The War Is Over" | ||||
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| Single by Phil Ochs | ||||
| B-side | "The Harder They Fall" | |||
| Released | 1968 | |||
| Genre | Protest song | |||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs | |||
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks | |||
| Phil Ochs singles chronology | ||||
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"The War Is Over" is an anti-war song by Phil Ochs, an American protest singer in the 1960s and early 1970s. Ochs was famous for harshly criticizing the Vietnam War and the American military-industrial establishment. The song, which was originally released on Tape from California (1968), has been described as "one of the most potent anti-war songs of the 1960s".[1]
One of Ochs' biographers wrote that "The War Is Over" is his "greatest act of bravery as a topical songwriter".[2]
- ^ Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura Diane (2001). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 2644. ISBN 0-02-865525-7.
- ^ Schumacher, Michael (1996). There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs. New York: Hyperion. p. 142. ISBN 0-7868-6084-7.