✅ True. At a concert in 1976, Eric Clapton went on a racist rant, using offensive racial slurs and calling for the deportation of non-whites from Britain.
Right from the start it was obvious it was going to be one of those nights. He shambled on with his head covered by some strange object, struggled to free himself and then warned us all about “foreigners” and telling us of last night’s “aggro” [a scuffle or fight] and the need to vote for Enoch Powell whom…Eric then described as a “prophet.
In Britain, “wog” is an exceptionally offensive slur for a non-white person, and was regarded as such even in the 1970s.of English at Yale University, attended the Birmingham Odeon concert as a teenage fan of Clapton. He was born on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and immigrated to England as a child, and was therefore part of the non-white and immigrant communities targeted by Powell, Clapton and the far-right, racist National Front party, whose popularity surged in England during the 1970s.
It was a betrayal, in a way that is kind of primal, in a way that only an adolescent, a late adolescent could feel it… I never wanted to listen to Eric Clapton again. Wakeling corroborated the description of Clapton’s rant as sustained and intermittent, found in Phillips’ account and the original Sounds magazine review, saying:
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