From Coldplay to Coldcut: when musicians sample politicians
Obama appears on Coldplay’s new album – the latest example of a long tradition of musicians sampling politicians, often to subversive and incendiary endsColdplay’s new album features a snatch of Barack Obama singing Amazing Grace during his eulogy for the Rev Clementa C Pinckney, murdered in Charleston in June. Obama, a Coldplay fan, endorsed the sample, but most politicians never get asked if their voices can be borrowed. Here are 10 songs which took liberties with the dulcet
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