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TIL: Rock Against Racism was formed in part as a protest against racist remarks by David Bowie and Eric Clapton. The latter announcing “Britain was in danger of becoming a ‘black colony’. Among other things, Clapton said 'Keep Britain white!’ which was at the time a National Front slogan

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