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Be honest, have you ever heard of Macklemore, Aaron Rowe, Finneas, Lukas Graham or an Irish band called something like Begorah?
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you → see → Begorah
But they are the support acts who have pulled out of Ed Sheeran’s American tour after rapper Macklemore was banned from arenas because of his pro-Palestinian on-stage propaganda.
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Macklemore → pull → propaganda
I’ve heard of Cliff Michelmore, who used to present the BBC Light Programme’s Two-Way Family Favourites with his wife Jean Metcalfe.
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who → hear → wife
Apparently, he’s famous for dressing up in ‘Jewface’ and falsely accusing Israel of ‘genocide’.
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he → ’ → genocide
Which is why promoters have pulled the plug on him and all the other non-entities on the Sheeran bill have walked out in solidarity.
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entities → pull → solidarity
Obviously, I have heard of Ed Sheeran, although I’d be hard-pressed to name one of his songs.
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I → hear → songs
But my mates in the music industry rate him highly and he seems like a nice boy.
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he → rate → boy
Sheeran has been left high and dry by the row over Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, who concluded his act recently shouting ‘Free Palestine’.
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who → leave → Palestine
Naturally, Jewish-American organisations objected fiercely and promoters responded by kicking him off the tour.
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promoters → object → tour
The other support acts took to social media – where else? – to express their shock and horror.
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acts → take → shock
Begorah claimed Macklemore had been silenced by ‘billionaires’ and ‘Zionist lobbies’.
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Macklemore → claim → billionaires
Rowe compared the plight of the Palestinians to the Irish potato famine.
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Rowe → compare → famine
Sheeran now faces the prospect of continuing the tour as a one-man band.
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Sheeran → face → band
Why not, it worked for Don Partridge.
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it → work → Partridge
He deserves better, having behaved impeccably, keeping his own political views to himself, following the example of the late, great Dolly Parton and not wanting to alienate any of his millions of fans.
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He → deserve → fans
Sheeran has been left high and dry by the row over his support artist Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, who concluded his act recently shouting ‘Free Palestine’
Rock stars have always paraded their, almost uniformly Left-wing, political views, largely through their lyrics.
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stars → leave → lyrics
But in recent years they have started using concerts as agitprop rallies.
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they → start → rallies
Having seen Bruce Springsteen live countless times over the past few decades, and followed him since the Greetings From Asbury Park album in 1973, I won’t be bothering again – even if he plays Finsbury Park, a few stops down the Piccadilly Line from me in North London.
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he → see → London
Much as I love the music, I can live without his Leftie luvvie lectures at every concert.
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I → love → concert
He even kicked off his last UK tour in Manchester with a rant about Donald Trump.
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He → kick → Trump
Frankly, who cares what he thinks about Trump.
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he → care → Trump
It would be more surprising if Bruce turned up in a red MAGA baseball cap.
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Bruce → turn → cap
Yet there is no evidence these rock star endorsements make the slightest difference.
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endorsements → be → difference
Springsteen campaigned in Philadelphia, PA, for both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
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Springsteen → campaign → Clinton
On both occasions, the following day the good people of Pennsylvania went out and voted for Trump.
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people → go → Trump
A few years back we went to see him at the Hydro in Glasgow.
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we → go → Glasgow
All started well, with Young at the piano performing classics like After The Goldrush.
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Young → start → Goldrush
Half an hour in, though, it all went pear-shaped as he brought on a crowd of people in HazMat suits, spraying pretend chemicals on stage, and delivered a tedious rant about pesticides.
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he → go → pesticides
As you can imagine, that didn’t go down well with the bevvied-up Glaswegian crowd who had paid good money to hear the hits.
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who → imagine → hits
And I speak as someone who enjoyed Young’s anti-Bush Living With War album and tour in 2006, along with his fellow Crosby, Stills and Nash sidekicks.
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who → speak → sidekicks
I also made a series for Radio 2 called Why Do The Left Have All The Best Songs?
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Left → make → Songs
I don’t go to concerts, or football, or the theatre for that matter, to be told what to think, how to behave or how to vote.
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I → go → what
When I turn up at a 10cc gig, the great Graham Gouldman doesn’t share his opinions on inheritance tax with the audience.
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Gouldman → turn → audience
Rock concerts, sporting events and plays should be about escapism, not an opportunity for musicians, footballers and actors to drone on about their view of the world.
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musicians → drone → world
And don’t get me started again on the gormless Remainers waving EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms.
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me → get → Proms
Who are they trying to impress?
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they → try → Who
It’s always a one-way street, too.
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It → ’ → ?
As regular readers will know, I gave up my season tickets at Tottenham after 40-odd years because I was sick and tired of the bogus virtue-signalling and the Premier League clambering on every woke bandwagon, from trans rights to climate change.
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I → know → change
If I wanted to observe a minute’s silence before every game, I’d go to a funeral.
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I → want → funeral
I certainly didn’t want to have to pay a few grand to be forced to suffer multi-millionaire players ‘taking the knee’ to Black Lives Matter.
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players → want → Matter
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