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# There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs

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There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Phil Ocha the man and the artist
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2011*

Having been devoted to Phil's work since 1969, this is satisfying reading.Michael Schumacher's "There but for Fortune" biography on Phil Ochs is an insightful analysis of the evolution of the flawed but hugely talented man and his fast moving life and  redresses the balence on Marc Eliot's cheaply sensationalist version which draws unwarranted attention on 6 months of the manic disfunctional John Train, Phil's destructive alter ego. That being said, the account of Phil's family background reveals a family background to which Phil was always vulnerable but I feel that Phil's prolific activity in a short space of time shows how a manic temperement can work to best effect. If Phil hadn't also cared about the people and causes he supported, this connection couldn't have been made.The book shows how Phil became the Phil Ochs we know and love through a chance pairing with Jim Glover as roommates at Ohio university and how 'John Wayne fused with Che Guevera' in Phil's worldview to become an incredibly hardworking artist whose commercial evolution within the constrainst of folk music never stopped him passing up a paying gig to a benefit concert. Schumacher shows how Phil's political activity evolved hand in hand with his music and how Phil's journalistic side of him always remained a fascinating and worthy second careerAnother turning point in Phil's life was the horrifying police brutality at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (prefiguring what was handed out to British miners at Orgreave 1984) which broke Phil's heart, tipping him into alcoholism and mental troubles.. He wouldn't have been so badly affected if her weren't such a patriot. That being said, he didn't go down without a fight and the culmination of him being the very rare fantasist who could turn his dreams into our reality was in his "Evening with Salvador Allende." At a time when his health was on the decline, this pulled off his biggest benefit concert against the odds after both the Chilean President and his friend, Victor Jara, were murdered in a military coup.Phil's life is commonly viewed as a tragedy in line with his own personal downwqard spiralling demise but the true value of Phil's life is most recently apparent as so many of Phil's songs can and have been updated so easily- "Cops of the World " and "White Boots Marching in an Arab (instead of Yellow) Land" come to mind and more than ever before, he is relevant to today's struggles and this book serves as valuable further reading material to the currently released film on Phil's life of the same title.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The book is still a good read!
  

*by W***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018*

This is the exact same book that Michael Schumacher wrote in 1998 except that the discography has been updated. I was hoping that some information would have been added since we know today so much more about Phil than we did in 1998. The book is still a good read!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Saddest story I’ve ever read
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023*

I loved his music when I was young.  This is a 5 for the writing, but a 2 for the truth of the story.

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