The article also revisits Clapton’s 1976 racist rant from a stage in Birmingham, England, where he repeatedly shouted slurs and voiced support for the British demagogue Enoch Powell, known for his divisive, race-baiting “ rivers of blood” speech in 1968. Clapton hasn’t just been spouting Covid vaccine misinformation over the past year - in interviews, in his inarguably terrible Covid protest single, and in his arguably even more awful collaboration with Van Morrison - he’s also been helping to bankroll the fringe, U.K.-based group of anti-vaxx musicians Jam for Freedom. But what he found was much worse than he’d imagined. And after a while it became a question of ‘what is going on here?’”īrowne, like so many of us, grew up with Clapton’s music. “It’s been a year now of making statements and videos.
“He’s been so relentless with this vax stuff,” Browne told me.
Want more articles like this? Follow THINK on Instagram to get updates on the week's most important political analysisĪs some on Twitter noted, Clapton has never really hidden his true nature. This spring, he said in videos posted on a friend’s YouTube channel that scientific studies, expert opinions and public health recommendations extolling the importance of vaccines were “ propaganda,” and most recently doubled down by vowing he wouldn’t perform to what he termed “ discriminated audiences” in venues requiring proof of vaccination. He has opposed lockdowns and made suspicious claims about the dangers of vaccines. He claimed that he was experiencing temporary adverse reactions to the Astrazeneca vaccine, but detailed symptoms he'd disclosed as early as 2013 and previously blamed on neurological problems. Since last year, Clapton has repeatedly used his vast platform to do his utmost to undermine expert medical advice. What came after that can now be seen as a long, slow decline, culminating in a series of self-inflicted wounds regarding Covid-19.
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