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Originally Posted by Jovimimi
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Originally Posted by StoneDeaf
Having political opinions in open must suit their needs today, but not during 80s. Aint it so trendy in USA nowadays to go shout out who u support? Expressing artists opinion in public gives the artist publicity, and as I see it, for some all publicity is good publicity  |
absolutely right !! back in the 80's the guys didn't need any other publicity than the one they had on a musical way ... they were in the late 20's they weren't interested by the same things back then ...
I think that to be under the spotlights about politics , business , sports ( !!  lol ) or artistic reasons has the same value for Jon today not in the 80s |
Ditto what Mireille says here. I reckon it was an 'uncool' thing to do back then [align yourself with politics/politicians/mandates etc.]...and he was only 27 then too...many things change in your life and the world over the years, and impacts on what you think, say. I remember in 'An Evening With', Jon was intro-ing a song and had a natter to the folk there about the important choice they had coming up [was it the election?], so just 3 years on, marriage and perhaps impending parenthood [along with outward general things] had helped to further mould his views.
I still think musicians should temper how much they utilise their 'positions' to advance their opinions though.
S.