"I don't want to overstate what we did, but I am sick to death of understating it."

This is a great piece in the Guardian on the recent 30th anniversary of the Rock Against Racism Victoria Park event:

Rock Against Racism radicalised a generation, it showed that music could do more than just entertain: it could make a difference. By demonstrating the power of music to effect change it inspired Live Aid and its supporters claim it helped destroy the National Front.

The impetus for the formation of Rock Against Racism was the racist statements made by Eric Clapton at a 1976 concert:

"Vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"

As the Guardian's Sarfraz Manzoor points out, "the hypocrisy was breathtaking: Clapton's career was based on appropriating black music, and he had recently had a hit with Bob Marley's 'I Shot the Sheriff'."  I remember in a 1998 interview with Mojo Clapton whined about how little respect he gets given "all that I've done for Black music!"  A letter appeared in the next issue that said, "This begs the question: what has Eric Clapton done for Black music?"

But it wasn't Clapton's remarks alone that spurred on anti-racist activists:

In usual circumstances his comments would have been merely ill advised, but it was the social and political context which made Clapton's intervention so chilling. The National Front had won 40 per cent of the votes in the spring elections in Blackburn. One month earlier an Asian teenager, Gurdip Singh Chaggar, had been murdered by a gang of white youths in Southall. 'One down - a million to go' was the response to the killing from John Kingsley Read of the National Front. Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux were sporting swastikas as fashion statements. David Bowie ... claimed that 'Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars.'

Rock Against Racism staged concerts and rallies throughout the UK over the next couple of years, climaxing with the April 30, 1978 Victoria Park show:

Throughout the afternoon they came, punks spilling out of coaches in leather and safety pins to join vicars, hippies and trade unionists. By the evening upwards of 80,000 were in Victoria Park to see the Clash take to the stage. In archive footage the entire park appears to throb in a pulsating pogo, a metronomic bounce. Among them was Gurinder Chadha, who had told her parents she was going shopping in Croydon but had sneaked into the concert on her own. 'The whole of the park was jumping up and down to the Clash,' Chadha tells me. 'It was an incredibly emotional moment because for the first time I felt that I was surrounded by people who were on my side. That was the first time I thought that something had changed in Britain forever.'

Thirty years on, Eric Clapton is still racist:

While David Bowie had distanced himself from his pro-Nazi remarks, Clapton has not only never apologised for his outburst, but has continued to praise Powell; only last December on The South Bank Show he reiterated his support for the man and four years ago he told Uncut magazine that Powell had been 'outrageously brave'. In fact the truly 'outrageously brave' ones were those who spoke up against the hate mongers and stood up for a vision of a liberal and tolerant Britain; apathy and cynicism is easy, but Rock Against Racism was gloriously uncynical.

Comments

[Matt Wilson]

I always thought Bowie's stance was just weird, fetishistic bullshit he grew up and out of. What's up with Clapton, though? Man, I not only can't believe it, I can't believe I'd never heard about it before.

Someone else who worked with Rock Against Racism was, either appropriately, unfortunately, or ironically, Elvis Costello. Just last week I mentioned to an African American friend that I was a big Elvis Costello fan. My friend, uh... well... he let me know that he felt differently due to some things Mr. Costello had said to Stephen Stills.

What can you do in that situation? It's not my job to apologize for his Elvis Costello's drunken dumbfuckery. I just sat here nodding like, "Yeah, what can I say? It happened and it was really shitty."

[Matt]

I'm mystified myself as to why that Clapton quote isn't more widely known. I'd heard about his rant, but never saw the actual quote until a couple months ago (part of it is linked here). Clapton's defense was similar to Costello's ("I was drunk!")...obviously Costello had done a lot before and since to indicate those weren't his true feelings, but I can understand not wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt -- I mean, if all I knew about Pete Townshend was a handful of Who songs and his post-9/11 statement "I am grateful for American military might," I don't think I'd give him the time of day.

Clapton, on the other hand, still defends his support of Powell.

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