You’re a good musician but where would you be without the blues and R&B?’ The letter called for volunteers to support ‘a rank and file movement against the racist poison in rock music’. ‘Come on you’ve been taking too much of that Daily Express stuff, you know you can’t handle it. He drafted a letter to the music press and persuaded six friends to sign it.
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Saunders was also a former mod and a Clapton fan. England is for white people, man … This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck’s sake? … Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!”Īmong those troubled by Clapton’s remarks was the photographer David (‘Red’) Saunders. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. Keep Britain white … The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Listen to me, man! I think we should send them all back. Not just leave the hall, leave our country … I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. “Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands … So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Here is the racist invective that Eric spewed: After the concert, outrage caused leading members of the UK music scene to form the Rock Against Racism movement. In August 1976, Eric Clapton took a break from a performance in Birmingham to address the members of his audience.
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