Classic Rock
was proud to throw its weight behind the music industry initiative #TheShowMustBePaused on Tuesday June 2, 2020. The day saw the freezing of our websites, in solidarity with our black colleagues, with the black artists whose music we love and owe our careers to, in protest against racism.
Coming in the wake of the killing of African-American George Floyd by the police, the initiative was set up by two black Atlantic Senior Directors of Marketing: Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang. Although launched from within the music industry, #TheShowMustBePaused was adopted by thousands of everyday people who flooded social media platforms with symbolic black squares. Statistics from Instagram alone showed posts with the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused were used more than 22 million times by the evening of the day concerned.