Not to start a vax / no vax war here - but Eric Clapton is an active anti-vaxxer.
He's making anti-vax music now.
Glad I was never a fan of his music. He sounds like the stereotypical angry old english man.
Always found his music dull. Yes even Cream.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/10/11/rolling-stone-is-trying-to-cancel-eric-clapton-n1523029So he's just another controversial musician that has controversy outside of their music related to their personal perceptions of life. It doesn't matter in the long run because humans have an odd obsession with idols and celebrities that people feel connected and think they know someone when in fact they don't, and when these expectations or their false image of that celebrity gets broken, they get upset like if that celebrity has forsaken them. This is why it's not beneficial to be worshipping celebrities or people of fame as if you know them personally because you do not.
Imagine if some of these "famously worshipped" celebrities did not die young, I guarantee some would have become controversial musicians like Eric Clapton, Ted Nugent, or Roger Waters.
Better yet, what happened to Rage Against The Machine, you know raging against the machine. I find creating a political band to be very, very fragile and one small mis-step in your political views can cause your band to falter. And it's even funnier when your views now align with the establishment you are "raging against".
I don't care at all, because I listen to so much music that I do not care about the musician personally. I do not know them and I also do know many famous people will put up a persona that does not reflect their true persona. They'll project an image for the screen so they can distance their personal security from their public perceptions. Which is also why some people will create a stage name.
I find it fascinating how far people will get curious and how much they will want to know about their musican/celebrity/sports player/idol, to the point of stalking them as if you know everything about them.
That's my two cents on controversial musicians.
Edit: Here's a quote from the Rolling Stones Article from Clapton himself from the late 60's...
In the past, Clapton has been reluctant to voice his political views. As he told Rolling Stone in 1968, “What I’m doing now is just my way of thinking, but if it gets into a paper somewhere, people will say that what I’m saying is the way they ought to think. Which is wrong, because I’m only a musician. If they dig my music, that’s great, but they don’t have to know what’s going on in my head.”
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