Andy Gill lead guitarist with the Gang of Four has sadly died at 64.
According to the BBC report he was a ‘marxist’:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51344348
What did that mean in practice? It meant for example an active association with anti-racist politics and Rock Against Racism.
The Gang of Four were one of those on RAR’s Militant Entertainment Tour in 1979, the year Thatcher was elected.
When remembering Andy Gill, of course the music was great but so were the politics and the two were connected
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