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Eric Clapton said he will not perform at any venues that require attendees to prove that theyve been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Clapton issued his statement in response to Prime Minister Boris Johnsons announcement on Monday, July 19th, that vaccine passes would be required to enter nightclubs and venues. Claptons statement was shared via the Telegram account of film producer and architect Robin Monotti, who has also been skeptical of the Covid-19 vaccine and expressed other doubts about the U.K. governments response to the pandemic. (Clapton previously shared a message about his disastrous health experience after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine on Monottis Telegram page.)
The message was accompanied by a link to Claptons anti-lockdown song with Van Morrison, Stand and Deliver. Representatives for Clapton did not immediately return Rolling Stones request for comment.
In a statement to Rolling Stone in May, a spokesperson for the MHRA, the UK governmental body overseeing the vaccine, reiterated that over 56 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 have now been administered in the UK, saving thousands of lives through the biggest vaccination programme that has ever taken place in this country.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)buh bye Clapton
Walleye
(31,039 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,503 posts)The right wing, state fair B circuit is pretty lucrative.
Beastly Boy
(9,408 posts)Which reminds me:
Events? What events?
Walleye
(31,039 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Cocaine
Walleye
(31,039 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)We will miss you?
What can one say about that?
Croney
(4,667 posts)leftieNanner
(15,144 posts)I understand that he has some form of Parkinsonism. His hands shake. Can't exactly play the guitar, I guess.
Still, this is stupid.
XanaDUer2
(10,726 posts)strange name for a death knell.
It's freeperish sounding
Haggard Celine
(16,855 posts)such assholes until Covid came along. I doubt I'll ever go see either of them perform after this. There are plenty of other people I can go see; no need to give them my money.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Initech
(100,100 posts)Dave says
(4,627 posts)(Really, the only good Clapton album there is, but that is in great part to the presence of Duane Allman.)
unblock
(52,309 posts)Clapton didn't just become a jerk overnight.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)unblock
(52,309 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)If you ever see him in-person, you can ask him how he felt when Hendrix blew him off the stage while playing a guitar through a bass amp. F**k him.
Grins
(7,227 posts)My friends like him but not me. Eff him.
Claim: At a concert in 1976, Eric Clapton went on a racist rant, using deeply offensive racial slurs and calling for the deportation of non-whites from Britain.
Rating: True.
luckone
(21,646 posts)to have big concerts
not announce that they are not
NewHendoLib
(60,018 posts)Goodheart
(5,336 posts)Not just saying that out of resentment for this dumb move... have always felt that way. His tunes are the epitome of vapid.
I wouldn't go to a show of his anyway.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)catrose
(5,073 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)This sounds accurate.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)FreeState
(10,577 posts)If the kid was 2-4 he was not an infant. Infants can be considered children anywhere from birth to 1 year old.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/difference-between-baby-newborn-infant-toddler-293848
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)he wasnt there, the girlfriend was. He was walking back to his place and saw all the ambulances and police passing him. Horrible thing to happen to any parent.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,503 posts)He used the I was on drugs excuse for his horrific racism. Hes anti-vaxx and anti-mask. He and Van Morrison should link up with Nugent and jump off a cliff together.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)That will show us.
TxGuitar
(4,209 posts)and once I grew up realized Clapton was dullsville. All of those 70s guys playing the same blues riffs over and over--no thanks. Add in his racist comments from before and I'm happy to be done with him.
ms liberty
(8,593 posts)His only great work was in the 60's.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)... 'Riding with the King' more than twenty years ago. And BB King carried most of the guitar fireworks.
Shellback Squid
(8,924 posts)Tears in Heaven
what a fucking joke
SunSeeker
(51,662 posts)Conor accidentally fell to his death from their 53rd-floor residence through a window that had been inadvertently left open in the apartment. https://www.biography.com/news/eric-clapton-tears-in-heaven-son
Shellback Squid
(8,924 posts)wtf
Shellback Squid
(8,924 posts)"My Father's Eyes" was inspired by the fact that Clapton never met his father, Edward Fryer, who died in 1985. Describing how he wishes he knew his father, the song also refers to Clapton's son Conor, who died in 1991 at age four after falling from an apartment window. "In [the song] I tried to describe the parallel between looking in the eyes of my son, and the eyes of the father that I never met, through the chain of our blood", said Clapton in his autobiography.[1]"
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DFW
(54,436 posts)That was the one who fell out the hotel window in New York.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Oh well, should I expect more from a guy who wrote a song about his hots for his friend/bandmates girlfriend?
spanone
(135,862 posts)Mysterian
(4,589 posts)Nobody should be booking him anywhere.
Xoan
(25,322 posts)SunSeeker
(51,662 posts)Oh, and your talent has completely left your body, like your senses.
LudwigPastorius
(9,167 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)and it was mostly the other people on those recordings that attracted me. I now have zero desire to play anything by him or Van Morrison anymore.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)bedazzled
(1,769 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Straw Man
(6,625 posts)Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia. He might just get away with it. In the words of Nan (Catherine Tate),
SunSeeker
(51,662 posts)Considering the age of many of his fans, maligning vaccination is particularly deadly.