"I don't think I've ever wanted magic more," tweeted JK Rowling after the historic referendum
Britain's bestselling novelist and two of its rock idols have mourned the country's "disastrous" vote to leave the EU, claiming it will lead to the break up of the country.
As it became clear early Saturday that the Leave camp had won, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, an outspoken campaigner to remain in Europe, tweeted:
Former Blur singer Damon Albarn wore a black armband as he played at the Glastonbury festival on Saturday, telling tens of thousands of fans that "democracy has failed us because it was ill-formed".
Sixties legend Marianne Faithfull said she hoped "the situation can be saved and that parliament can still do something. "It is a disaster, " she told AFP. "I feel sick and very sad. We are back to where it used to be, the right-wing racist Little England, those dreadful people, they've always been there."
And fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld blamed rural voters "from deep in the countryside" for pushing Britain out. "The big cities didn't want it (Brexit) at all.
"I don't think it is a good idea. The analysis of the vote shows that it is a bad decision," the 82-year-old German-born Chanel creator told AFP.
The Sun newspaper -- which called for its readers to vote to quit Europe -- called Albarn and Rowling's comments "arrogant".
But Johnny Marr, the guitarist of The Smiths, took up a similar line on Twitter as a petition to parliament calling for a new referendum gathered more than two million names.
He also lambasted David Cameron in another post today for his decision to quit after losing the vote.
Peter Mayle, the novelist who for millions of Britons epitomised the "European dream" of living in the sun with his Year in Provence novels set in southern France, told AFP that the UK's exit was a "disaster for them and for Europe."
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