Smearing someone as a racist is not a rebuttal of one’s views on the jab. But, to a leftist, this is valid reasoning.
In the summer of 1976, Dave Wakeling thought he knew Clapton, too. Wakeling, who’d go on to found the English Beat, one of the U.K.’s pioneering ska bands, was 20 that year, and such a big Clapton fan that he’d once hitchhiked from his Birmingham home to London to see Clapton’s band Blind Faith in Hyde Park.
But when he saw Clapton at the Odeon theater in Birmingham in August 1976, Wakeling was gob-smacked. A clearly inebriated Clapton, who unlike most of his rock brethren hadn’t weighed in on topics like the Vietnam War, began grousing about immigration. The concert was neither filmed nor recorded, but based on published accounts at the time (and Wakeling’s recollection), Clapton began making vile, racist comments from the stage. In remarks he has never denied, he talked about how the influx of immigrants in the U.K. would result in the country “being a colony within 10 years.” He also went on an extended jag about how “foreigners” should leave Great Britain: “Get the wogs out . . . get the coons out.” (Wog, shorthand for golliwog, was a slur against dark-skinned nonwhites.)
“As it went on, it was like, ‘Is this a joke?’ ” Wakeling recalls. “And then it became obvious that it wasn’t. . . . It started to form a sort of murmur throughout the crowd. He kept talking, and the murmurings started to get louder: ‘What did he fucking say again?’ . . . We all got into the foyer after the concert, and it was as loud as the concert: ‘What is he fucking doing? What a cunt!’ ”
When Clapton voiced support onstage for the conservative British flamethrower and fascist Enoch Powell, a prominent anti-immigration politician who had given his polarizing “rivers of blood” speech on the topic in Birmingham in 1968, Wakeling was particularly offended. Thanks to white and black workers toiling together in its factories, Wakeling had sensed that Birmingham had become more integrated in recent years.
Well, this certainly convinced me that not taking the shot is stupid.
Becoming relevant again with a new 15 minutes of fame by lying to give the propaganda machine a story.
No one believes these phonies any more.
Something that supposedly happened 45 years ago is just coming to light?
Now that’s whutcha call a well kept secret!!
What a weird coincidence! Apparently “F—k Joe Biden” is also racist.
Maybe someone should ask Rolling Stone why they have been holding on to this story for 45 years!!
“Oh we just found out about it”
I see… so we should believe “news” from someone this inept???
I’ve heard stuff like this about Clapton before… To sum up the story, Clapton is a guy that loves his country and his people… that makes me like him more.
Alan West and his wife both got Covid. Colonel West is now more against the jab than before he got sick. Does being opposed to Doctor Fauci’s Gene Pool Bleach make Colonel West a racist?
Irrelevant shit rag says what??? Rolling Stone isn’t even worth lining a bird cage with..
Yes! Finally someone writes about reading speed.
a bit off topic, but its gotta go somewhere
very well done:
https://youtu.be/TSZMtSPX3iE
You can tell just about how programmed these leftists are by their habit of calling everything racist. It’s a completely stoooopid reaction to any perceived infraction of their programming but no other response comes to….. mind (?).
Is this article supposed to make Clapton look like a dick? Because, I think these remarks he made make him seem prescient and smart. I was never a fan (he was a bit before my time), but he has gone way up in my estimation.
Clapton’s not even a real plumber!!!
Took awhile to make up all that garbage eh?
My sister’s in-law’s cousin (twice removed) had a friend of a friend of some vaguely related guy she once met who claimed he had seen some girl who knew a guy that said Eric Clapton once got drunk and spouted a lot of bullshit!
And this is REALLY the truth! He’s a racist (not that there are any pictures of him in blackface, though, like some non-racists)! So, the Jab is good!
See how that works?
izlamo delenda est …
And three years after Clapton said that, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister and served until 1990. She was the longest-serving PM of Britain in the 20th century. Is it possible—and hear me out, Rolling Stone—that Clapton’s sentiments resonated with the vast majority of British people? And is it mere coincidence that Britain began sliding into Third-world shitholery just when leftists took over after Thatcher?
Full disclosure: I am a big fan of the English Beat, and their first album is in my top 5 favorites of all time.
So what. The people who get the jab are going to die. Karma’s a bitch.
Rather than nail R&R star Clapton in 1976 (which would have killed its readership), RS pulls it out of its archive to condemn Clapton as a racist but for an entirely different cause in 2021.
RS stinks. It’s been leftist, I think, from its beginning.
What next am I going to find out about Clapton that makes me like him even more.
My respect for the dude borders on a crush.
But that’s OK.
It’s all good up here in Maine……..all good
Eric, it’s time to retire, he’s already lost over 50 % of the people who would listen to his oldy moldy tunes.
When his jazz album first came out and radio stations played LAYLA on air, at first it was a Muzak elevator music parody. True story!
I laughed my ass off.
I have 4 concerts on DVD/Blue Ray with Clapton.
He plays with, gives solos to, and promotes many Black musicians and singers.
Robert Cray anyone?