May 17, 2021 Eric Clapton, who recently made headlines for joining forces with Van Morrison on an anti-lockdown track, "Stand And Deliver," has moved on to slam the Covid vaccine as being sold to the public through propaganda. Clapton permitted Robin Monotti Graziadei-- an Italian architect and film producer -- to forward his telegram along to Rolling Stone, in which the guitarist describes his "disastrous" Covid vaccine reaction. The 76-year-old Clapton wrote in part: "I took the first jab of (the AstraZeneca vaccine) and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days. I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one. . . About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again, (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.) But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone."