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Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since '76

David Stubbs, The Quietus, 9 August 2016

During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades later, with Morrissey making offensive comments about Sadiq Khan and Britain reeling from Brexit, David Stubbs asks if anything has changed

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