Let Me Be (The Turtles song) Sloan's song "Eve of Destruction", which became a number 1 hit in the U.S. for Barry McGuire, recognizing that, with its uncompromising message, "You just couldn't make a statement like that and ever work again." He said that they accepted "Let Me Be" because it represented "just the perfect level of rebellion … haircuts and non-conformity".<ref name="Unterberger/JingleJangleMorning"></ref> Author Peter Doggett describes "Let Me Be" as a "perfect encapsulation of teenage angst". In his book "1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music", Andrew Grant Jackson identifies it as part of a "subgenre" of protest songs that emerged during 1965, in which
Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song) Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song) "Christmas Eve" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani for her fourth studio album, "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" (2017). It was released digitally as the album's second and final promotional single on October 5, 2017, through Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, and Michael Busbee while production was handled by busbee and Eric Valentine. Commercially, it peaked at number twenty on both "Billboard"s Holiday Digital Songs and Holiday Digital Song Sales charts in the United States. During 2017, Stefani attended recording sessions where she worked