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SecondEdition wrote:Did we ever get a full list?Also:I'm pretty sure Ian Curtis voted Tory. You can definitely add him to the list."Pretty sure" and "definitely" are not happy playmates.Robbie Fulks is conservative. I have no idea if he is a registered Republican, but he is conservative. Maybe not socially so much.Bryan Ferry is a Tory, there's little doubt about that.

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Yeah, really? I know he prefers to be apolitical with his music but I haven't heard more than that.

Wild bump. Iggy is a Republican?

Plenty of documented reports of Ian Curtis' right-wingness. The clues are all there in his lyrics if you look, eg. She's Not For Turning, Labour Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission (dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the Conservative Party manifesto) etcBut even so, he was barely more than a child when he died and Tory scum are still not Republicans.

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The googles gave me this here, it says Iggy was for Reagan in the 80s but didn't like GWB and is for the most part nonpartisan.http://hollowverse.com/iggy-pop/But also it says this:He said of Reagan:I ve been waiting for someone who could communicate the joys of liberty as compared to the joys of equality.Dammit Iggy.

I googled Ian Curtis and tapped into this 2007 link from the Guardian. Pasted the relevant PRF texthttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/ ... opandrock21. Elvis Presley2. Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)3. Ted Nugent4. Eric Clapton5. 50 Cent6. Geri Halliwell7. Kid Rock8. Johnny Ramone9. Phil Collins10. Ian CurtisThe lead singer of Joy Divison - who is currently depicted in Anton Corbijn's biopic Control - helped Margaret Thatcher into power by voting Conservative in 1979, reportedly as a protest against the Labour government of James Callaghan.

Another good 2016 link from commentator Rod Liddlehttps://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/its ... ight-wing/