Eric Clapton Will Not Play Shows Where Proof of Vaccine Is Required

[demmiblue]

Musician issued statement after U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said vaccine passes would be required at clubs and venues

Eric Clapton said he will not perform at any venues that require attendees to prove that they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Clapton issued his statement in response to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday, July 19th, that vaccine passes would be required to enter nightclubs and venues. Clapton’s 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. government’s response to the pandemic. (Clapton previously shared a message about his “disastrous” health experience after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine on Monotti’s Telegram page.)

The message was accompanied by a link to Clapton’s anti-lockdown song with Van Morrison, “Stand and Deliver.” Representatives for Clapton did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s 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]

1. aw-too bad

buh bye Clapton

[Walleye]

2. This is strange. His fan base is not right wingers. Who does he expect to come

[BlueTsunami2018]

21. They might be now.

The right wing, state fair B circuit is pretty lucrative.

[Beastly Boy]

22. Fan base? What fan base?

Which reminds me:

Events? What events?

[Walleye]

26. Good point

[gldstwmn]

38. I bet Don Jr.'s a fan.

Cocaine

[Walleye]

39. All around his brain

[notinkansas]

3. RIP Clapton?

We will miss you?

What can one say about that?

[Croney]

4. He is anti-mask and anti-lockdown. Very disappointing.

[leftieNanner]

5. I didn't think he was playing any more

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]

6. "Stand and deliver"?

strange name for a death knell.

It's freeperish sounding

[Haggard Celine]

7. I didn't know he and Van Morrison were

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]

8. Bye Felicia.

[Initech]

9. And I won't be going to see him.

[Dave says]

10. O no! I'll have to throw out my Layla album

(Really, the only good Clapton album there is, but that is in great part to the presence of Duane Allman.)

[unblock]

16. The piano part from the song Layla was stolen from Rita Coolidge.

Clapton didn't just become a jerk overnight.

[gldstwmn]

20. He has a long history of being a shit to women.

[unblock]

32. True. But he also has a long history of being a shit period.

[kysrsoze]

11. Clapton has always been an asshole, with a literal god-complex. Could never stand him

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]

52. Agree! I'm with you. A jackass for YEARS.

My friends like him but not me. Eff him.

[smb]

54. Yep

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]

12. No surprise if you know anything about him but usually performers announce when they are going

to have big concerts
not announce that they are not

[NewHendoLib]

13. overrated anyway. never been a fan.

[Goodheart]

14. Most overrated musician in the history of pop/rock music.

Not just saying that out of resentment for this dumb move... have always felt that way. His tunes are the epitome of vapid.

[Ritabert]

23. Agreed

I wouldn't go to a show of his anyway.

[Hoyt]

15. He's never struck me as very bright, although a guitar god to some.

[catrose]

17. So he'll only play superspreader events?

[alphafemale]

18. Didn't he have a preschool age kid that fell out of a high rise window because there was no glass in

This sounds accurate.

[Blue_true]

31. The child was an infant, like 2-4 years old. nt

[FreeState]

36. Nope - infants are under age 1

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]

37. Thanks. I am childless, so I don't know much at all about children. nt

[Corgigal]

35. The maid left the window open,

he wasn’t 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]

19. He's always been an asshole.

He used the “I was on drugs” excuse for his horrific racism. He’s anti-vaxx and anti-mask. He and Van Morrison should link up with Nugent and jump off a cliff together.

[OAITW r.2.0]

25. Or do MAGA concerts with no vax or masks allowed.

That will show us.

[TxGuitar]

24. I've played guitar for 35 years

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]

27. I've always thought he was overrated, and

His only great work was in the 60's.

[marble falls]

28. He's just plain on the wrong side of too many issues I find important. His last good album ...

... 'Riding with the King' more than twenty years ago. And BB King carried most of the guitar fireworks.

[Shellback Squid]

29. then his homage to his father was a lie

Tears in Heaven

what a fucking joke

[SunSeeker]

42. Tears in Heaven was about his toddler son, who fell to his death.

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]

46. and about his father, his father is in his son's eyes

wtf

[Shellback Squid]

56. I mentioned the wrong song

"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]"

Wiki

[DFW]

43. That song was for Connor, his 4 year old son

That was the one who fell out the hotel window in New York.

[Blue_true]

30. Clapton being a dick again.

Oh well, should I expect more from a guy who wrote a song about his hots for his friend/bandmate’s girlfriend?

[spanone]

33. Idjit.

[Mysterian]

34. Clapton is a stupid asshole and should be shunned

Nobody should be booking him anywhere.

[Xoan]

40. Sad little man

[SunSeeker]

41. Fuck you Eric. Way to destroy your legacy!

Oh, and your talent has completely left your body, like your senses.

Clapton has been releasing anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown statements and songs for close to a year now. In December 2020, Clapton joined fellow classic rocker turned anti-vaxxer Van Morrison on his song, “Stand and Deliver.” The song features lyrics including, “Do you wanna be a free man / Or do you wanna be a slave?” and “Dick Turpin wore a mask too.” Variety critics ranked it as one of the worst songs of 2020.

 https://variety.com/2021/music/news/eric-clapton-refuses-venues-vaccination-1235024838/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

[LudwigPastorius]

44. Good, old Slowhead...

[Elwood P Dowd]

45. Layla (1971) and The Breeze tribute to J.J. Cale (2014) were the only Clapton albums I've purchased

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]

47. Just shows. Playing great guitar doesn't mean you aren't an asshat.

[bedazzled]

48. Always liked Santana better

[Buckeye_Democrat]

49. Whatever, Karen Clapton!

[Jakes Progress]

50. Just shows. Playing great guitar doesn't mean you aren't an asshat.

[helpisontheway]

51. Fool! Nt

[Straw Man]

53. His fall tour dates are all in the South.

Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia. He might just get away with it. In the words of Nan (Catherine Tate),

[SunSeeker]

55. He should call it the Walking Dead Tour.

Considering the age of many of his fans, maligning vaccination is particularly deadly.

[geardaddy]

57. Never liked him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. Don't listen to him or you'll end up here:

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