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Ive no problem with them playing Spain back then. However, Queen playing sun City is one of the many reasons (most of them their terrible songs, constant shape shifting to fit into popular Genres, and ripping off Sparks).
So, to what extent four young men from Liverpool had concern or even basic awareness of the facist state in Spain I don't know but much of the UK seems to have been largely unconcerned.
I believe that Cliff Richard was the first in 1976
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A news report describes the protest set off by British pop star Dusty Springfield when she refused to perform during a tour in South Africa unless she could sing to a non-segregated audience. Although her 1964 tour was cancelled, many other British rock stars joined her in condemning apartheid.
Turns out Dusty didn't actually finish the tour and was deported.
I'd assume that the Beatles would have been aware of this since it would have been in the tabloids or on the radio back then?
Great thread by the way - a chap above asked what was point of it - but I've learnt stuff I never knew before.
I think some pop artists like Elton John, Billy Joel (and Cliff Richard, I've just learned) had been there before.
On another note .......a lot of people who didn't holiday in Fascist Spain holidayed instead in Communist Yugoslavia under Tito
Sangria westerns?