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who ripped off rock culture with their chequebooks and plastic crap. Rock was and still can be a real progressive culture, not a package mail-order stick-on nightmare of mediocre garbage. Keep the faith, black and white unite and fight. We want to organise a rank-and-file movement against the racist poison in rock music – we urge support – all those interested please write to:
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stuff, you know you can't handle it. Own up. Half your music is black. You're rock music's biggest colonist. You're a good musician but where would you be without the blues and R&B? You've got to fight the racist poison, otherwise you degenerate into the sewer with the rats and all the money men
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When I read about Eric
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571:Learn how and when to remove this message
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1357:"Love Music Hate Racism Carnival 2008"
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1293:. London: Time Warner. p. 275.
1134:Bainbridge, Luke (14 October 2007).
509:adding citations to reliable sources
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1276:. No. 395. pp. 22–28, 81.
427:in Brixton for a concert featuring
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1893:Socialist Workers' Student Society
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1053:from the original on 30 March 2017
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1601:from the original on 2 March 2016
1194:Greene, Andy (29 November 2022).
1146:from the original on 9 April 2008
2118:List of jam band music festivals
1888:International Socialist Tendency
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2287:Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
2108:List of heavy metal festivals
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2003:Respect – The Unity Coalition
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1136:"The ten right-wing rockers"
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2123:List of punk rock festivals
1803:Original RAR Crew 1976-1982
953:List of punk rock festivals
585:UK general election of 1979
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2103:List of gothic festivals
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363:Carnivals Against Racism
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1200:Rolling Stone Australia
917:by Daniel Rachel (2016)
391:. The concert featured
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2098:List of folk festivals
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2195:Fuji Rock Festival
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