I take exception to the automatic assumption by a few "artists" that their stage persona gives them the right to inflict their political beliefs on us. Bono and Geldof spring to mind. However realistically politics and song has been intermixed since a frog first croaked so perhaps I should correct the above to state politics in the lyrics is a very different beast to the author talking or embracing politics both on and off the stage. Even the anodyne beatles were banned in Eastern Europe.