The War Is Over (Phil Ochs song)

"The War Is Over"
Song by Phil Ochs
from the album Tape from California
Published1968
Released1968
GenreProtest song
Length4:25
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Phil Ochs
Producer(s)Larry Marks
"The War Is Over"
Single by Phil Ochs
B-side"The Harder They Fall"
Released1968
GenreProtest song
Length2:45
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Phil Ochs
Producer(s)Larry Marks
Phil Ochs singles chronology
"Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"
(1967)
"The War Is Over"
(1968)
"My Life"
(1969)

"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 antiwar 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]

  1. ^ Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura Diane (2001). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 2644. ISBN 0-02-865525-7.
  2. ^ Schumacher, Michael (1996). There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs. New York: Hyperion. p. 142. ISBN 0-7868-6084-7.

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