What are the sixties
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Benny Bunter
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Lol, after he saw Hendrix he permed his hair
Benny Bunter
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What a terrible person
Benny Bunter
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This doc is actually pretty well balanced between conservative and more progressive views, hard to imagine the BBC making something like this nowadays. As always, some great footage. A time capsule of both the 60s and the early 2000s.
This doc is actually pretty well balanced between conservative and more progressive views, hard to imagine the BBC making something like this nowadays. As always, some great footage. A time capsule of both the 60s and the early 2000s.
eh... when was that rant? 1976? Hopefully he has wizened up a bit since then.
"Keep Britain White" was, at the time, a slogan of the far-right National Front (NF).[211][212] This incident, along with some controversial remarks made around the same time by David Bowie,[213] were the main catalysts for the creation of Rock Against Racism, with a concert on 30 April 1978.[214]
In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he did not "know much about politics" and said of his immigration speech that "I just don't know what came over me that night. It must have been something that happened in the day but it came out in this garbled thing."[215] In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Enoch Powell as "outrageously brave".[216] He said that the UK was "inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos".[217] In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense."[218] In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton said he was "deliberately oblivious" to racial conflict.[219] In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton said he was not a racist but still believed Powell's comments were relevant.[213]
In 2018 Clapton stated he was "disgusted" with himself for his "chauvinistic" and "fascistic" comments on stage. He added: "I sabotaged everything I got involved with. I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn't make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music."
DLaurent
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I knew about the rant before now. I don't really think about it too much. He dug himself a deep hole and has tried to redeem himself since, doing all kinds of things like setting up a rehab centre in Antigua. I don't put it up to me to decide if he has exonerated himself though, not being really into either cancelling or racism. The half my friends were black line is a ridiculous cliche though.