Can we separate pop from politics?
Ed Sheeran says he tries to keep politics off the stage. But politics gate-crashed his stadium tour anyway -- when the American rapper Macklemore was removed as a support act for delivering a pro-Palestinian speech. Now Sir Bob Geldof, the man behind Live Aid, says Ed Sheeran's preferred silence isn't political. Fame,…
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