On this date in 1965, EVE OF DESTRUCYION by BARRY McGUIRE went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Sep 15, 1965) Penned by a precocious 19-year-old P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" emerged as a searing commentary on the political and social turbulence of the 1960s. The song's genesis, as Sloan recounts, occurred "in the early morning hours between midnight and dawn in mid-1964," born out of a pressing need to address "a number of issues that were unbearable for me at the time." The track's journe