Reacting to the British government requiring Covid-19 vaccine passes for access to live venues and nightclubs, musician Eric Clapton said he would cancel shows at places that discriminated against the unvaccinated. Read Full Article at RT.com
Reacting to the British government requiring Covid-19 vaccine passes for access to live venues and nightclubs, musician Eric Clapton said he would cancel shows at places that discriminated against the unvaccinated.
Saying he felt “honour-bound to make an announcement of my own,” after PM Boris Johnson announced the vaccine passes on July 19, Clapton said he would “not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present. Unless there is provision made for all people to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show.”
The author of ‘Change the World’ accompanied the message with a link to ‘Stand and Deliver,’ the song opposing lockdowns he recorded with Van Morrison last year.
According to Rolling Stone, Clapton isn’t scheduled to perform in the UK until May 2022, when he has two dates booked at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He also has a “handful” of concerts in North America scheduled in September.
US reactions to Clapton’s announcement were divided along partisan lines, with the conservative Prager University praising him for fighting against “arrogant tyranny,” while liberals said they never wanted to watch him perform anyway, and denouncing him as racist over comments he made in the 1970s.
If you're shocked, go look up where in the 1970s, Clapton said so many racist things from the stage, an artists' activism and outreach program was founded to counterract him and get the word out that musicians in general were not like him https://t.co/mjqpizzB3d
That’s a shame since I was — oh, wait, never planning on seeing Eric Clapton perform ever. pic.twitter.com/Mig78EBzwn
— (((Drew Z. Greenberg))) (@DrewZachary) July 21, 2021
The 76-year-old has long been an outspoken critic of Covid-19 lockdowns. Earlier this year, he drew condemnation for talking about the alleged adverse effects he experienced after having received the vaccine, complaining he was in “agony” and “chronic pain” that made it impossible to play the guitar for a week and that had left his hands sensitive to heat and cold.
Clapton has sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his solo career, creating the hits ‘Layla’, ‘Tears in Heaven’, and ‘My Father’s Eyes.’
While the majority of England’s Covid-19 restrictions were lifted on July 19, Johnson’s government plans to use vaccination passes have sparked opposition in the form of petitions and street protests.
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Reacting to the British government requiring Covid-19 vaccine passes for access to live venues and nightclubs, musician Eric Clapton said he would cancel shows at places that discriminated against the unvaccinated. 