The guitarist, who is British, previously railed against COVID-19 vaccine mandates on a podcast with the U.S. presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist.
So does Clapton still agree with what he said? “My feeling about this hasn’t changed, really,” he insists. “Years later, when I played at the Mandela concert, one of the promoters said: ‘You know that this is your chance to apologise formally for what you said.’ And I thought: ‘You must be fucking joking.’ I was so insulted.”
~ Clapton, 2004 interview regarding a 1988 concert for Nelson Mandela
Oh.my.god. He was insulted? This literally made me say “oh my god” out loud. I didn’t even know about all this growing up in the 80’s and then listening to him later on in the 90’s.
The original article this quote was taken from for Snopes continues:
This sound of heels being firmly dug in is typical Clapton. Though he is clearly not a racist, he is amazingly stubborn. The remark caused huge offence, but he still cannot bring himself to apologise.
“Clearly not racist.” Come on.
I can understand why the guy who was addicted to coke could swing to being against any foreign substances that are injected.
He is a musician, not medically qualified in any way, and is easily duped by quack science. He also doesn’t understand why laws are put in to prevent foreign interference with politics.We should stop idolizing celebrities.
On multiple accounts we have seen millionaires and billionaires support each others un-scientific and inherently selfish ideas.
Clapton was always an idiot looking at his comments towards black people and support of nationalist. We somehow tolerated that and now, since Trump showed us even with the wildest comments and no political correctness, won’t affect your own popularity.
Stop tolerating that and start following scientist and professors instead of dumb musicians and celebrities.
