ERIC CLAPTON FIRST WESTERN ROCKER TO PLAY IN NORTH KOREA

CLAP INTO NORTH KOREA!

Published on Wed 27 February 2008 by basko

ERIC CLAPTON FIRST WESTERN ROCKER TO PLAY IN NORTH KOREA

Eric 'slow hands' Clapton has become the first Western rock star to be asked to play a gig in communist North Korea. Clapton will play in the capital city (Pyongyang, fact fans) and it is hoped his soothing blues riffs and 'Layla' guitar solo will help build cultural ties between the West and the communists...

A North Korean official is quoted as saying:

"It will be a good opportunity for Western music to be understood better by Koreans."

But is this a good thing, we ask ourselves? Clapton may nearly be a pensioner by now but his potential set list is hardly teaching the North Korean's good things about the decadent West? Which songs can he actually play?

'White Room' - nope, psychedelic drugs references
'I Shot The Sheriff' - better not mention someone opposing authority
'Wonderful Tonight' - adultery!
'Tears In Heaven' - Tears In Kim Jong-il's honour...

What a great night it could be: "Comrades male and comrades female, welcome Eric Clapton with his song 'Cocaine'!

Maybe he could cement relations with a bit of a speech too?

ERIC CLAPTON, WESTERN ROCKER, NORTH KOREA, team america

pass it on print article

JESSICA'S GUFF GAFFE
LOHAN FOR GOLD
SHERLOCK BONES
SOUR CHILD O' OZZY'S
NEWSMOUND

DIRTY DAVID
LEAVE ME A-LOHAN!
PAPA DON'T BLEACH
JOLIE HARD LIFE
OBLIGATORY YOUTUBE CLIP

COMMENTS

		Bunglist on Wed 27 February 2008 said... my day was going so well, up until seeing eric claptons come face. thanks a bunch.
		SpartacusMills on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Wonderful Tonight isn't about adultery
		TouchingCloth on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Wonderful Tonight is about Patti Boyd, the woman he stole off George Harrison though.
		SpartacusMills on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Fair play though, she was highly shaftable in the early 70's.
		dearlord on Wed 27 February 2008 said... thats defo his sex face. looks like a dying turtle
		RavishingRickRude on Wed 27 February 2008 said... I thought Layla was about Patti Boyd
		TouchingCloth on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Both Layla and Wonderful Tonight - that's how hot she was!
		dandyboy on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Looks more like his fallen asleep after the Sunday roast face.
		MerylHighground on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Do they call him Elic Crapton over there?
		DickyM on Wed 27 February 2008 said... Whoever it was about, she was obviously wonderful that night...
		SpackoMcDribble on Thu 28 February 2008 said... watch out for that pyongyang hotel Eric, there's no windows at all in that fucker...