The Dark Side of Eric Clapton

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Clapton has become a vocal skeptic of COVID-19 vaccines – and once went on a "full-tilt racist" rant. David Browne, author of Rolling Stone's blockbuster new report on Clapton, joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the untold story of a rock icon. Plus: the English Beat's Dave Wakeling shares memories of Clapton's infamous 1976 stage tantrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:07.0	Really happy to have with me David Brown who just wrote a blockbuster story for Rolling Stone
0:11.0	about Eric Clapton.
0:13.4	It's really a look at the dark side of a pivotal classic rock figure.
0:17.2	David, what was the print headline for that story again?
0:20.2	I believe it's the dark side of God with God in quotes which of course is a reference to
0:26.1	the days back in the 60s when when people would say Clapton is God.
0:30.5	It was actually graffiti that people would write on the walls in London, clapped in this god.
0:35.6	It was a unique form of music criticism.
0:39.3	It was.
0:40.3	Maybe he was doing it himself.
0:42.0	That would have been the real discovery, wouldn't it?
0:44.8	That would be something worth investigating.
0:47.3	That's pretty funny.
0:48.3	Yeah, who knows?
0:49.5	Who was that? Who had that spray can?
0:50.8	But this all started because Eric Clapton decided to become a vocal
0:56.5	skeptic of COVID vaccines. You know he lent his voice to a movement that we would say is destructive and just not a very
1:04.9	socially helpful thing to do. So when someone behaves like that in their dotage, it
1:10.0	kind of prompts an impulse to look back on their life and understand where did this come from.
1:16.4	And as you kind of put it in your story, you know, did he change or has he been like this all along?
1:22.0	And this is a guy who had not had a whole lot to say about politics
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