Donald Trump appeared to ignore the demands of British rocker Paul Rodgers by using his hit All Right Now to cap off his presidential nomination speech.
Rodgers joined a string of artists including Queen, Adele and representatives of George Harrison to object to the Republican and his campaign using their material.
The billionaire tycoon accepted his party’s nomination at the Republican Party convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday.
Trump ended the fiery speech with his campaign slogan “Let’s make America great again” and “I love you” before All Right Now’s famous guitar riff kicked in.
Earlier in the convention Trump walked on stage to the sound of Queen’s 1977 classic We Are The Champions, but the entrance was followed by a message on the band’s Twitter: “An unauthorised use at the Republican Convention.”
Representatives of Beatles guitarist George Harrison said the unauthorised use of Here Comes The Sun to introduce Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, was “offensive & against the wishes of the George Harrison estate”.
Adele’s hits Rolling In The Deep and Skyfall were played at Trump’s political rallies earlier this year, prompting her spokesman to point out she had not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning.
Following Adele and other artists who asked Trump to stop using their music, Luciano Pavarotti’s family made the same request in Italy, saying that the late opera singer would not have approved of Trump’s use of his recording of Giacomo Puccini’s aria Nessun Dorma, or None Shall Sleep, in his election campaign.
“As members of his immediate family, we would like to recall that the values of brotherhood and solidarity which Luciano Pavarotti expressed throughout the course of his artistic career are entirely incompatible with the world view offered by the candidate Donald Trump,” the statement said.
Nessun Dorma has frequently been played at Trump rallies.
The lyrics of the aria from Puccini’s Turandot are supposed to be the words of the “unknown prince” in the opera who falls in love with Princess Turandot.
Moreover, Pavarotti’s performance climaxes as he repeats the Italian word ‘vincerò’, or ‘I will win’, three times in a powerful crescendo.