The Song: “Working” from the album My Beethoven, his first in eight years. Fun Fact: During the 1960s, Sloan had a successful songwriter career, writing Top 20 hits for Barry McGuire, The Searchers, ...
Tropicalia from a regrouped OS Mutantes; Sitar meets 12-string guitar in Satwa; New Wave Bossa Nova by Nouvelle Vague; Classic new rock from Heartless Bastards; A soldier's life in song: Blow Up ...
If presented with a list of PF Sloan's accomplishments -- from writing the protest classic "Eve of Destruction" to providing the falsetto vocals on Jan & Dean hits -- the average rock fan would ...
PF Sloan was a major songwriter in L.A.'s burgeoning '60s folk and pop scene, with writing credits for the likes of The Turtles, Johnny Rivers and The Grassroots. His song "Eve of Destruction" ...
More than just about anyone I knew, Phil was always cognizant of the timeless things. That the energy of rock and roll would last forever as did the majesty and grandeur of Beethoven’s music. Never ...
P.F Sloan on the cover of Here's Where I Belong. The Fantastic Baggys had their brief moment in surf music history with "Tell 'Em I'm Surfin'," a well-made if unsuccessful song. If it sounds familiar, ...
NEW YORK — P.F. Sloan, a singer and songwriter of somewhat enigmatic repute, whose apocalyptic anthem "Eve of Destruction," written when he was just 19, was a seminal protest song of the 1960s, died ...
P.F. Sloan – a prolific songwriter who wrote hit singles for the Grass Roots, Barry McGuire, Johnny Rivers and the Turtles – has died at the age of 70. According to a press release sent out by his ...
PF Sloan, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 70, was the rock legend who most people had never heard of. Even in the business many thought he was just that – a legend, a fictional character ...
P.F. Sloan, a folk-rock musician of the 1960s whose two best-known songs — the apocalyptic protest anthem “Eve of Destruction” and the ominous TV-show theme song “Secret Agent Man” — became major hits ...