Remember when Eric Clapton was a rock giant? “Layla,” “Cocaine,” etc?
Those days are over. During the pandemic, Clapton lost his mind, went on a huge anti-vaccination campaign, even recorded songs about with the equally crazy Van Morrison.
Their philosophy was so out of whack with reality that it seems to have ruined their legacies.
Back on October 4, 2024, Clapton released an album of covers that also included his Morrison mishegos. One of their songs, “Stand and Deliver,” compared the pandemic lockdown to slavery! It was only available on streaming, and sold a total of around 18,000 units.
This last week “Meanwhile” was released on CD and vinyl. The result so far? It’s number 47 on amazon. It won’t sell enough copies to make the top 50. Actually it could be worse than that.
Funny PS: One of the songs, called “Misfortune,” was co-written with Clapton by the late comedian and actor Richard Lewis. Now, there’s an unexpected combination. Let’s hope Lewis — who died a year ago this month — was vaccinated.
Poor Eric, and Van, too. They were heroes in the rock canon. Now they just seem silly.
Maybe Robert Kennedy Jr, now chief health officer in the US and also an ant-vaxxer, can use one of the new Clapton songs in a commercial. Or they could just use “Cocaine.”
