How to continue to be a rock star, when we are about to celebrate his 80 spring? There is the Mick Jagger method, which displays two more, consisting in making it as if nothing had happened. But aren’t Rolling Stones above all a stage group? Eric Clapton probably does not have the same iron health; So he just aged quietly and adapt his repertoire to his age. Hence Meanwhilealbum that we had been waiting for a long time, knowing that I Still Dothe latter with original compositions, still dates back to 2016.
In the end, a Cool disc, on which he rubbed the great classics, such as the Moon River From Johnny Mercer and Henri Mancini, here reinterpreted with his friend, the deceased Jeff Beck, on the guitar. In the same register, there is also Smilewhose words are due to a certain Charlie Chaplin. Two titles with delicate jazzy atmospheres allowing our man to demonstrate that from rocker, he is also now crooner.
A most political background
On the other hand, with Sam Halltraditional English song evoking a kind of 18th century Robin of woode A century promised to capital pain, political ambiguity is not far away, as this famous thief is known for having refused to repent of his misdeeds.
And it is true that Clapton was also in revolt, his career during, without ever apologizing. As early as 1976, he supported Enoch Powell, then hope of the English conservatives who, at the same time as our Jean-Marie Le Pen, alerted the population against the dangers of mass immigration, thus worth a reputation for ” racist »Perfectly usurped. Indeed, the one we call ” Slowhand “, In the 1960s, did otherly more than others of his allegedly progressive colleagues for the promotion of black artists, old American bluesmen to have a second career (Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and so many others) or a Bob Marley whose reggae he makes known worldwide by taking up his I Shot the Sherifffrom 1974.
What never prevented him from continuing to publicly affirm that Choch Powell was right before everyone else, proving as well as his reputation as a Cabochard and free spirit is all, except usurped.
To continue to arrange his case, this emeritus sinner coupled with a skillful rifle also campaigns, within the Countryside Alliance, so that his country neighbors can continue to chase the fox, to the chagrin of environmental associations.
Support for a future Donald Trump health secretary
-As for his great fight of recent years, during the COVID-19 epidemic, he was not against vaccination, as often asserted by the media, but against that of the youngest and, above all, of their confinement. Better still: he refuses to play in rooms where the spectators would be turned back, for lack of a vaccination certificate. This explains better his support to Robert Kennedy Junior, a very skeptical JFK nephew as to the growing power of pharmaceutical multinationals and candidate for the primary of the Democratic Party who finally joined a Donald Trump who intends to make it his secretary to health. However, before giving concerts in his favor, Eric Clapton, very picky on certain other questions, demands that the politician he is committed to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.
In short, the artist knows what he wants and does not engage in half, like another Irish mule head, Van Morrison, the most beautiful white voice of the soul, also quite skeptical when to the bell of the English population during the pandemic. A van Morrison, moreover, present on this disc on three titles, The Rebels, This Has Gotta Stop et Stand and Deliverhymns with citizen freedoms and enjoining their compatriots to raise their heads.
Another song, perhaps the most poignant, remains Heart of a Childdenouncing these psychological dangers incurred by a youth assigned under house arrest, which is now measured by the consequences.
Today is celebrated Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize in literature to which another biographical film is devoted, with Timothée Chalamet embodying the paragon of the singer given for committed, but which never really committed.
In his ultimately more discreet way, Clapton has always been committed. He has only more merit, having always rowed against the tide of his own environment, this show-biz of false rebels and real mutineers of Panurge, to quote the late Philippe Muray. This magnificent album, with intelligent texts and stunning melodies of beauty, is proof. Not bad, as an elegant way of aging.
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