It's as if we've all spent years on the town with a bon vivant uncle buying us steaks and cigars and driving around in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and suddenly the bon vivant uncle pulls over to the side of the road, starts freaking about gas prices, and hands you fare for the bus.
In the 2008 US presidential campaign, acts including Heart and Bon Jovi expressed their disapproval that their music had been played at Republican Party events.
"Performing to so many people on the most exciting day in sport for Great Britain will be one of the highlights of the last decade for us, " said Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon.