Another US artist has hit out at his music being used by those cheeky Republicans in their Presidential campaign. This time it's Jon Bon Jovi, who aint happy that the slightly scary Sarah Palin has been using his song 'Who Says You Can't Go Home' at her vice-presidential rallies.
According to nymag.com, Bon Jovi has released the following statement: "We wrote this song as a thank you to those who have supported us over the past twenty-five years. The song has since become a banner for our home state of New Jersey and the defacto theme song for our partnerships around the country to build homes and rebuild communities. Although we were not asked, we do not approve of their use of 'Home'".
As previously reported, a number of artists have hit out at the Republicans using their music during their campaign, including Heart, Jackson Browne and the Foo Fighters, though the McCain/Palin camp always point out, correctly, that providing a political party has a blanket licence for playing music at events they don't need permission from individual artists. Which is just as well for the Republicans, because if they did need artist permission to use songs, they'd possibly struggle to find songs to use.
While we sympathise with Jon Bon Jovi, perhaps he should be sucking up to some of those rich Republicans, given that report on Tuesday that he is be sued for $400 billion in a copyright dispute.