Save the World (George Harrison song) unsuccessful as the Beatles' work during the "Magical Mystery Tour" era. Although he concedes that the scarcity of environmental songs in the early 1980s, relative to the 1990s, might be a mitigating factor, Inglis dismisses the song as a "hopelessly vague indictment of the perils we are inflicting around the globe", adding: "The problem with such a general attack is that it lacks focus and, therefore, force." Alan Clayson views Harrison's conservationist sentiments as "laudable" and considers the track to be a protest song in the mould of Barry McGuire's 1965 hit "Eve of Destruction", yet he also identifies the
Eve of Destruction (song) list" by the BBC, and could not be played on "general entertainment programmes". In the late 1970s Los Angeles punk band The Dickies recorded a cover of "Eve of Destruction". The Undead (Fronted by Ex-Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele) recorded a cover of "Eve of Destruction" in 1986 and was released on their album "Act Your Rage" in 1989. New wave group Red Rockers covered the song in their 1984 album "Schizoprenic Circus". Johnny Thunders recorded it on his 1984 album "Hurt Me" and also frequently covered the song in concert (a live version is included on his 2000 CD, "Belfast