New Statesman - Why are there so few right-wing rock stars?

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After a drunken concert appearance by Eric Clapton in August 1976 where the guitarist repeatedly shouted the National Front’s slogan “Keep Britain White” and called for action to be taken to “get the coons out”, it was on the letters pages of the NME that the Rock Against Racism movement coalesced. In the 1980s, during Neil Kinnock’s latter period as leader of the Labour party, no daily newspaper would give him even the smallest piece of positive coverage: NME put him on the cover twice, once, to their publisher’s chagrin, the week before the 1987 general election.

Also see: Rock Against Racism