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The Dark Side of Eric Clapton

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Clapton, You Know, I'm Not a Racist, I Have Many Black Friends

Clapton has never denied he made those comments. He's always blamed it on alcohol, which for much of the seventies and eighties, he was dealing with drug and alcohol blems. But also, at the end of that interview, he still said something that he said a few other times when talking about this, where he said, well, it's actually kind of funny to a monte python skit"

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