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Originally Posted by Piss Me Off
Haha i forgot about that rant, forgot when it was, got a source?
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From Rolling Stone.
During Costello's 1979 tour of the U.S., when one night in a bar in Columbus, Ohio, at odds with the Stephen Stills Band, Costello suddenly denounced Ray Charles as "a blind , arrogant, ******," he said much the same about James Brown, and attacked the stupidity of American black music in general. Bramlett decked him; the incident quickly made the papers, then "People" magazine, and the resulting scandal forced a New York press conference - Costello's first real face-to-face encounter with journalists since the Fall of 1977 - where he tried to explain himself, and , according to both Costello and those who questioned him, failed.
Clapton never said anything that extreme, he does have some rather conservative views about immigration but thats not enough to make him a racist, I mean c'mon, Eric Clapton? Think about that for a sec, this guy has been trying to be black for the majority of his career.
