It’s such shaky ground.
Whether it’s Ronald Reagan completely missing the message behind ‘Born In The USA‘, Johnny Marr ‘forbidding’ David Cameron to be a fan of The Smiths, or Paul Ryan receiving the bluntest of knock-backs from Tom Morello (who called his political views ‘antithetical to the message of Rage’), politicians and rock music just don’t make good bed-fellows. As Donald Trump has now found out.
The independent Republican American Presidential candidate, now the clear front-runner for the party’s nomination after Ted Cruz’s defeat in Indiana and withdrawal from the race earlier this week, has been told to immediately ‘cease all use’ of Rolling Stones songs during his campaign.
“The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately,” a statement from the band reads.
According to the BBC, ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want‘ has been one of Trump’s most commonly used tunes. How apt.