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It seems like there isn't a recording available in the wild. Maybe someone was at the Birmingham 1976 concert and has/had one, but buried it.
Having never looked into this before, I can't believe it's not very common knowledge Fuck knows how he had a career afterwards!
There's a 2015 twitter post linking to an EC Wiki page, mentioning that the outburst is quoted verbatim and looking for a recording. The Wiki has been edited in the past year and now shows no mention. He doesn't seem to have apologised, beyond blaming being drunk.
So does Clapton still agree with what he said? “My feeling about this hasn’t changed, really,” he insists. “Years later, when I played at the Mandela concert, one of the promoters said: ‘You know that this is your chance to apologise formally for what you said.’ And I thought: ‘You must be fucking joking.’ I was so insulted.”
Seriously WTAF quotes of the racist rant>>
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-clapton-racist-rant/
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Seriously WTAF quotes of the racist rant>>
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-clapton-racist-rant/Fucking hell
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The rant gets hidden from the clapton life programs. @eskay when I learned about the outburst, my musical life changed.
I mention it often, as I find it offensive as a forin person, and the fact of where blues music comes from. Oh and if you have an issue with my comment, is it still ok to listen to gary glitter? Oh it was 72 so acceptable?
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I can't believe it's not very common knowledge
It's not unknown - the Clapton rant was cited as the spark for the creation of Rock against Racism and the people involved regularly remind us of that. Pops up in the news every so often and actually quite a lot in the last year given his involvement with Van Morrison in anti-vax bullshit.
I suspect that, of that portion of the Great White British Public that remembers him, a significant proportion still quietly agree with his views and a larger chunk just don't want to hear about it because they don't want to feel guilty about playing Layla on the jukebox/spotify.
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Maybe she should have sold the bootleg of his racist rant that seems to be forgotten.