"I would call this, at best, quite the failure to read the room" Simply Red‘s Mick Hucknall has been criticised for compiling a “coolest cultures on the planet” list.
The singer received backlash on Twitter after he listed his top five “coolest cultures on planet Earth” before he went on to write: “1.
African Americans (they invented cool) 2. Working Class British Musicians. 3. (A close 3rd) Jamaicans 4. Jewish Americans 5.
Flamenco Gypsies.” He then went on to tweet famous musicians who fell into each category including Chuck Berry, James Brown, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
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