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ANTI-VAXERs! What happened to Eric Clapton?
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tyranny
Nov 12, 2021, 2:07:59 PM11/12/21
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Robert Cray was stunned when he first heard “Stand and Deliver.” Eric
Clapton, his onetime musical hero, who became a mentor and friend, had
released his first protest song in 56 years of recording. Only it wasn’t
about George Floyd or global warming. Clapton’s midtempo shuffle, a
collaboration with Van Morrison released in December, went full anti-
lockdown, taking aim at the government for trying to control a global
pandemic by temporarily shuttering restaurants, gyms and concert halls.
What grabbed Cray’s attention was the second verse.
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you’re lying in the grave?
Cray — one of the great blues guitarists of his generation, a five-time
Grammy winner and Black man born in segregated Georgia — emailed Clapton
immediately. Was the 76-year-old guitar great comfortable singing
Morrison’s words, which compared the lockdown to slavery?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/11/eric-clapton-
vaccine-lockdown/
Clapton, his onetime musical hero, who became a mentor and friend, had
released his first protest song in 56 years of recording. Only it wasn’t
about George Floyd or global warming. Clapton’s midtempo shuffle, a
collaboration with Van Morrison released in December, went full anti-
lockdown, taking aim at the government for trying to control a global
pandemic by temporarily shuttering restaurants, gyms and concert halls.
What grabbed Cray’s attention was the second verse.
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you’re lying in the grave?
Cray — one of the great blues guitarists of his generation, a five-time
Grammy winner and Black man born in segregated Georgia — emailed Clapton
immediately. Was the 76-year-old guitar great comfortable singing
Morrison’s words, which compared the lockdown to slavery?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/11/eric-clapton-
vaccine-lockdown/
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