Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren takes music off Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine 'misinformation'

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Nils Lofgren announced Saturday that he's removing his music from Spotify to protest vaccine misinformation propagated by Joe Rogan.The 70-year-old Bruce Springsteen guitarist made the announcement in solidarity with Neil Young, who removed his music from Spotify days earlier, by making his announcement in Young's newsletter.Joni Mitchell has also followed suit by taking her music off the service in protest.

He's out: Guitar Nils Lofgren, 70, announced Saturday on his friend Neil Young's newsletter that he had removed 'the last 27 years' of his music from Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation; seen in 2016 in Mountain View, Calif.'A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and Daryl [Hannah] standing with hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people,' Lofgren wrote in his statement.'When these heroic women and men, who’ve spent their lives healing and saving ours, cry out for help you don’t turn your back on them for money and power.

You listen and stand with them.' The guitar virtuoso added that he had 'now gotten the last 27 years of my music taken off Spotify,' and he was contacting the record labels that owned his earlier music to request that they also remove his songs.Lofgren, who has played on and off in Young's working group Crazy Horse, noted his long friendship with the Canadian rocker.

Going for all of it: Lofgren noted his long friendship with Neil Young and said he was contacting other record labels that own his older recordings to request they be taken off Spotify as well Comedian Joe Rogan, who hosts the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, has been accused of.