Neil Young has demanded that Spotify removes his music, due to vaccine misinformation spread by podcaster Joe Rogan on the streaming service. "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both," wrote the star in a letter to his management and record label.

Rogan has been criticised for airing vaccine-sceptical views, and promoting debunked claims about treating Covid-19 with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin.
Spotify, which paid $100m for rights to the podcast in 2020, is yet to comment.

Young's comments came in an open letter, which was briefly posted to his Neil Young Archives website before being removed.

"I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform," he wrote. ....

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60124003

Young came to New Zealand in the 1990s. During a worshipful press conference in Auckland, the one memorable thing he said was: "I'm happy to live under a nuclear umbrella," as he firmly repudiated someone's suggestion that he was a "political" artist.

He changed his tune during the W. presidency, with this anthemic (i.e. dull and coarse) single...





"Just Sing and Don't Talk If That's All You Have To Say" is a series devoted to moronic and/or cringe-inducing statements by pop singers and other "celebrities". It is compiled by Serena Sopwith-Fotherington, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.

See also:
Bob Dylan
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/chomsky-in-1994-not-impressed-by-bob.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/chomsky-in-1994-not-impressed-by-bob.html

Bruce Springsteen




and the half-witted, most obnoxious person in Britain, John Lydon....