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Sun Jan 30, 2022, 09:34 AM Jan 2022

Nils Lofgren joins exodus from Spotify

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2022/01/29/nils-lofgren-joins-neil-young-joni-mitchell-removing-music-spotify/6871643504735/

"Nils Lofgren, the renowned rock guitarist and longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has joined Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in pulling his music from Spotify.

Lofgren announced he would pull his music catalog, which includes 28 solo records, from the streaming service in a message posted to the Neil Young Archives website in protest of COVID-19 "misinformation" spread on the platform by podcaster Joe Rogan.

A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and Daryl [Hannah] standing with hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people," Lofgren wrote in the message.

"When these heroic women and men, who've spent their loves healing and saving ours, cry out for help you don't turn your back on them for money and power. You listen and stand with them."...(more)

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