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The Princeton Folk Music Society To Honor Tragic Folksinger Phil Ochs
There are those who swear the spirit of the 1960s finally ended at the end of a rope in Far Rockaway, New York, when Phil Ochs hung himself at his sister’s house. He was 35. Unlike Dylan, who has admitted he used folk-music to become a rock star, Ochs truly believed in his role as generational spokesman. He preferred “topical singer” to “protest singer” but he protested long and loud at racism, war and apathy.