My Life (Phil Ochs song)
"My Life" is a 1969 song by Phil Ochs, a US singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s.
| "My Life" | |
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| Song by Phil Ochs | |
| from the album Rehearsals for Retirement | |
| Published | 1969 |
| Released | 1969 |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 3:11 |
| Label | A&M |
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs |
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks |
| "My Life" | ||||
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_disc_snapshop.jpg.webp) Promotional copy of "My Life" | ||||
| Single by Phil Ochs | ||||
| B-side | "The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles" | |||
| Released | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 3:11 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs | |||
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks | |||
| Phil Ochs singles chronology | ||||
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"My Life" is the fifth song on Rehearsals for Retirement, an album Ochs recorded in the aftermath of the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.[1] In the song, Ochs says that his life, which had once been a joy, had become like death to him.[2]
In "My Life", Ochs sings "Take everything I own/Take your tap from my phone/And leave my life alone."[3] Years after his death, it was revealed that the FBI had a file of nearly 500 pages on Ochs.[4]
References
- Schumacher, Michael (1996). There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs. New York: Hyperion. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0-7868-6084-7.
- Eliot, Marc (1989) [1979]. Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs. New York: Franklin Watts. pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-531-15111-5.
- Schumacher, p. 212.
- Blair, Eric (2007). Folk Singer for the FBI: The Phil Ochs FBI File. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press. p. 4.
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