Music Television is very pleased to present more from Slowhand & Van (Eric Clapton + Van Morrison) with the music video for their protest song titled This Has Gotta Stop. This newest version of the song features Van Morrison on saxophone as well as an additional verse from Morrison. The song was written by Clapton, produced by his longtime producing partner Simon Climie and is performed by Clapton, Sonny Emory on drums, Nathan East on bass, Sharon White on background vocals along with Nick Ingman as the strings arranger and conductor, and Perry Montague-Mason as strings leader. The music video was directed by Machine That Eats and Dave Kaplan.
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Slowhand & Van (Eric Clapton + Van Morrison) - This Has Gotta Stop (Official Music Video)
Music Television is very pleased to present Eric Clapton and the music video for his protest song titled This Has Gotta Stop.
The song was written by Clapton, produced by his longtime producing partner Simon Climie and is performed by Clapton, Sonny Emery on drums, Nathan East on bass, Sharon White on background vocals along with Nick Ingman as the strings arranger and conductor and Perry Montague-Mason as strings leader. The music video was directed by Machine That Eats and Dave Kaplan. The animation was created by Machine That Eats.
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Eric Clapton - This Has Gotta Stop (Official Music Video)
Below is the story about the song and the video and Bradley Manning
A companion video for "Almost Gone" -- a new song by legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash and musician James Raymond (son of David Crosby) -- was released in December 2011 in support of accused U.S. Army whistleblower Bradley Manning. The release was timed to Manning's first judicial hearing scheduled for December 16th 2011, the day before Bradley Mannings 24th birthday, following his more than 17-months in custody, including a year in solitary confinement that Amnesty International has characterized as "harsh and punitive." Visually, the Almost Gone video is punctuated with bold graphics, disturbing images and harsh facts. The Bradley Manning Support Network has named the following day, December 17, its International Day of Solidarity (http://events.bradleymanning.org/). PFC Manning, an Army intelligence analyst who had been stationed near Baghdad, was arrested in May 2010 under suspicion of leaking classified information, including a video showing the killing of civilians, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Nash and Raymond composed the song "Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning)" during this spring's US tour of Crosby-Nash, and the new recording serves as the music bed for the video; it features an impassioned lead vocal by Nash, a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted (Crosby, Stills & Nash, and The Hollies). "Bradley Manning is a hero to me," he sings, acknowledging Manning's role in making public videos and documents that shed light on such as issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy.
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UPDATE ON STORY: Since this post was originally written on June 9, 2012, Bradley Manning officially became Chelsea Manning. And, pursuant to a commutation by President Obama just as he was preparing to leave office. Chelsea Manning was pardoned by President Obama was released from prison on May 17, 2017.
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Music Television presents Pink performing her political/patriotic protest song titled Dear Mr President, Live at Wembley Arena in London, England, during her I'm Not Dead tour in 2006. Dear Mr. President was written by Pink (Alicia Moore) and Billie Mann.
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Music Television is very pleased to present more from Slowhand & Van (Eric Clapton + Van Morrison) with the music video for their protest song titled This Has Gotta Stop. This newest version of the song features Van Morrison on saxophone as well as an additional verse from Morrison. The song was written by Clapton, produced by his longtime producing partner Simon Climie and is performed by Clapton, Sonny Emory on drums, Nathan East on bass, Sharon White on background vocals along with Nick Ingman as the strings arranger and conductor, and Perry Montague-Mason as strings leader. The music video was directed by Machine That Eats and Dave Kaplan.
