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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE ROCK N’ ROLL WARS ERUPT

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Some of Rock’s greatest legends are publicly rejecting lockdowns and experimental vaccines. Others, like the Foo Fighters, are endorsing vaccine segregation.

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0:00.0

We have some elders of the music industry stepping up here making a lot of waves.

0:05.1

First, let's talk about Van Morrison. He's the songwriter, brown-eyed girl, moon dance.

0:10.5

He's stepped up. He's a rock-a-roll hall of fame or two. He stepped up early. He came out in

0:16.0

October 2020 against the lockdowns really early on into this. And he was one of the really first

0:21.6

notable musicians to stand up and come forth. And he sat here nearly 170,000 jobs lost in

0:27.6

Britain's British live music industry alone. Van Morrison laments decimation of a sector.

0:32.4

And now as we know, it's not just the music industry sector. It's main street. It's even

0:36.8

even entire streets in New York. A lot of people leaving states. But then a couple

0:42.6

a couple months after that, he actually took his art and made his voice heard again. And he wrote

0:46.8

three songs against these lockdowns. Van Morrison protested COVID-19 lockdowns in three new

0:51.8

songs. Song titles like Born to Be Free, no more lockdowns. He was really going out of him.

0:57.3

And he has not shut up yet. He's been outspoken even with his latest video last week.

1:02.7

And then we move on to Pink Floyd. Roger Waters. He's the co-founder of Pink Floyd.

1:08.4

He was speaking out not so much against the lockdowns or the vaccines or anything like that.

1:13.4

But he was approached by Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook. And the headline looks like this.

1:19.7

Kind of a laughable one. Roger Waters told Facebook, there's no f-ing way. He let them use

1:25.2

Pink Floyd music in an ad. And this is what that sounded like because he went off on a live panel

1:32.5

about it. Check this out. I'd just like to say something very brief. This is something that I

1:38.3

actually put in my folder when I came out here today. You have no idea what it is. Nobody does

1:45.2

because it arrived on the internet to me this morning. It's a request for the rights to use my

1:53.9

song, another brick in the wall too, in the making of a film to promote Instagram. So it's a missive.

2:05.4

It's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right? I arrived this morning with an offer of a huge,

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