Posted on 11/29/2020 10:14:15 PM PST by conservative98
Rock music legends Van Morrison and Eric Clapton have teamed up for “Stand and Deliver,” a song that takes coronavirus lockdowns to task.
“There are many of us who support Van and his endeavors to save live music; he is an inspiration,” Clapton said according to Variety. “We must stand up and be counted because we need to find a way out of this mess. The alternative is not worth thinking about. Live music might never recover.”
Clapton also said that the end of live entertainment due to coronavirus lockdowns is “deeply upsetting.”
Proceeds for the track — set to be released on December 4 — will go to Morrison’s Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund, which works to lend financial assistance to musicians left struggling during the global pandemic and the mitigation lockdowns imposed across the world.
“It is heartbreaking to see so many talented musicians lack any meaningful support from the government, but we want to reassure them that we are working hard every day to lobby for the return of live music, and to save our industry,” Morrison added upon release of news of his Clapton collaboration.
According to his website, Morrison’s fund has already disbursed its first allotments. Still, the group promises that more money will soon be raised for a second round of donations to struggling artists.
Van Morrison has already released several songs that are critical of the lockdowns, including “Born To Be Free,” “As I Walked Out,” and “No More Lockdown.”
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We were all meant to be in this together. Just because the government says something doesn't make it true. https://t.co/YAx5r10E4X— Van Morrison (@vanmorrison) November 24, 2020
Remember back in March when they said it would be just for two weeks to flatten the curve? https://t.co/p1iyV0C2lX— Van Morrison (@vanmorrison) November 20, 2020
The government got a taste of power and now it craves more and more.
This is encouraging news. Thanks for posting.
Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, they’ve always been among my favorites.
Bfl
Hey everybody!
Musicians and music industry people are being discarded as worthless as their careers are eliminated.
Government is destroying the live performance of music right before our eyes.
also...
the DJ business is about 99% gone, so your friendly neighborhood party music folk have lost all their income.
I like Van.
Gonna give the Band a bump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqb1I-hiHE&list=PLxH7lhk772mRLwGc0o5124z-TW9Q8DuqP&index=12
Van and Eric are both incomparable talents, and I’m very glad to see them standing up against tyranny. “Astral Weeks” and “Layla” are among my all-time favorite albums.
It’s so interesting to me that rockers of that generation aren’t slaves to political correctness like the brain-dead millennial generation.
I really like Van Morrison and Eric Clapner’s music. I just wish they’d make music and shut up.
Morrison is a raging lib, and I don’t know about Clapton.
Oh please. I do not know Van's private political opinions as he is a very private person. In fact could not care less. His music is apolitical and he's doing a good thing here.
I heard he doesn’t talk politics and this song doesn’t sound like a liberal putz to me...
No more lockdown
No more government overreach
No more fascist police
Disturbing our peace
No more taking of our freedom
And our God-given rights
Pretending it’s for our safety
When it’s really to enslave
Who’s running our country?
Who’s running our world?
Examine it closely
And watch it unfurl
No more lockdown
No more threats
No more Imperial College Scientists making up crooked facts
No more lockdown
No more pulling the wool over our eyes
No more celebrities telling us
Telling us what wе’re supposed to feel
No more status quo
Put your shouldеr to the wind
No more lockdown
No more lockdown
No more lockdown
No more lockdown
‘The government got a taste of power and now it craves more and more.’
governments have always had power; its constraint was popular approval or disapproval...now, governing bodies everywhere don’t care about public sanction, look at the pussy Big Ten conference which won’t allow any fans into its stadia, which average about 75,000 in seating...
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