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Eric Clapton’s New Album Includes Slavery Anti-Vax Song, First Single Rips Off Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff”

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Eric Clapton is releasing a sort of new album. It’s called “Meanwhile.”

The album features a first single that sounds a lot like his 1974 cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff.” It’s called “One Woman,” which is like a combo of Marley’s “One Love” and “No Woman, No Cry.”

Maybe it’s a tribute to the late reggae superstar.

The album includes Clapton’s anti-vax song, “Stand and Deliver,” which he did with the off his rocker Van Morrison during pandemic. The song equates the COVID lockdown with slavery. Eric is still hawking the whole anti-vax deal, even thought it saved millions of lives including his own.

Considering Clapton has long been accused of racism, maybe these lyrics weren’t the brightest idea:
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you’re lying in the grave?

Roger Friedman
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