![]() ![]() Three months later, we read that Eric Clapton made a speech on stage against blacks and in favour of Enoch Powell, a politician who made his name opposing immigration.īetween those two events, and unreported by the music press, was the death of a Sikh man, after which a far right leader declared: “One dead – a million to go”. When, in 1976, we saw a picture of David Bowie giving what looked suspiciously like a fascist salute, we were concerned. Like my schoolmates, I read them all religiously, but the NME (New Musical Express) was our bible. In those days, rock fans got their hands dirty reading the weekly inkies. Why was the NF defeated while the FN went from strength to strength, polling 10.5 million votes (34 percent) in the recent presidential election? To answer this question, David Renton’s book Never Again looks at a movement in music. A decade later the NF was broken and the FN’s star was rising. It was the envy of other far right organisations, in particular its ideological cousin, France’s Front National (FN). ![]() The National Front (NF) was on the rise in the UK in the mid-1970s. ![]()
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