British musician
Dammers publicly opposed Paul Simon s decision to record his album Graceland in Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. When Simon played the first of six nights at Londons Royal Albert Hall on April 7 1987, Dammers joined Paul Weller and Billy Bragg in protesting outside and delivered a letter demanding that Simon give a "complete and heartfelt apology to the UN General Assembly".
History has shown it was the correct strategy. With any boycott, if you,start making an exception for this pop musician, or that professor,then the whole campaign is in danger of being undermined. . . To walk,into that situation in defiance of an established boycott was very,irresponsible, and predictably proved extremely divisive.
It helped that you had someone who was the very embodiment of evil in,power. You have to remember that it was an incredibly politicised era.
