[Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images]The Rolling Stones aren’t the first musical act to tell Trump to stop using their music, according to MSN.
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The Trump campaign have played two other Rolling Stones songs during previous rallies, “Brown Sugar” and “Sympathy for the Devil.” .
The Stones have joined Aerosmith, Neil Young and Adele in ordering Trump to exclude them from his playlist.
R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe blasted Trump in September for playing “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” on the campaign trail.
The Rolling Stones have become the latest musicians to ask US Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump to stop using their songs in his campaign events.
The right-wing Republican was told to “cease all use immediately” by the iconic band after he used hits such as You Cant Always Get What You Want to whip up a frenzy before his speeches.
“Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign”, Stipe said in a statement.
The statement from lead singer Steven Tyler’s lawyers said that Mr Trump’s use of the power ballad gave “the false impression that [Tyler] is connected with or endorses [his] presidential bid”.
Bruce Springsteen: Not a fan of Ronald Reagan.
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John Cougar Mellencamp, Tom Petty and Sting all objected to then-Governor George W. Bush, using their songs in his 2000 presidential campaign (Sting also objected to Al Gore using a song), Fivethirtyeight reported. The Rolling Stones were upset with German Chancellor Angela Merkel using their song “Angie”, and in 2008 President Barack Obama was asked by Samuel Moore of Sam and Save to stop using the song, “Hold On, I’m Comin”. Campaigns need to obtain what is actually called a “blanket license” from either BMI or ASCAP that allows organizations to play the songs of musicians without the consent of specific musicians.
