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Ochs, Phil

LC control no.n 88152158
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML420.O29 Biography
Personal name headingOchs, Phil
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Variant(s)Ochs, Philip David
Train, John Butler
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1940-12-19
Death date1976-04-09
Place of birthEl Paso (Tex.)
Place of deathFar Rockaway (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationSingers Composers Political activists
Found inEliot, M. Death of a rebel, 1989: CIP t.p. (Phil Ochs) data sheet (Philip David Ochs; b. Dec. 1940)
LC data base, 6-28-89 (hdg.: Ochs, Phil)
There but for fortune, 1996: CIP t.p. (Phil Ochs) p. 482 (adopted the name and alter ego John Butler Train in 1975) p. 548 (committed suicide Apr. 9, 1976)
Oxford music online, December 8, 2016: New Grove dictionary of American music, 2nd ed. (Ochs, Phil(ip David); born December 19, 1940, El Paso, Texas, died April 9, 1976, Far Rockaway, New York; American singer, songwriter, and political activist)