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Eric Clapton

Introduction Eric Patrick Clapton was born 30 March 1945. He is an English blues/rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Clapton has been inducted into the rock world as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person ever to be inducted three times. He was often viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Clapton was even ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Early years
Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 17-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband Jack, believing they were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Their surname was Clapp, which has given rise to the widespread but erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp. Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier, moved to Canada and left young Eric with his grandparents in distant Surrey. Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his 13th birthday, but found learning the steel-stringed instrument very difficult and nearly gave up because the action of the guitar was horrible. Despite his frustrations, he was influenced by the blues from an early age and practiced long hours to learn chords and copy the music of blues artists that he listened to on his Grundig Cub tape recorder.

First bands After leaving school in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston college of art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. Around this time Clapton began busking around Kingston, Rickmond and the west end of London. The started playing in bands, he played in “The roosters”, “The Yardbirds” and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. But it was first when he joined Cream fellow Mayall alumni Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in Cream, a trio that proved equally adept at lengthy blues improvisations and arty, blues-based psychedelic pop. They travelled on a tour in America and it was during this tour Eric Clapton was getting famous in America and not just in Britain. In this time Eric met another guitar "god", Jimi Hendrix. He had a new and special way to play guitar. Eric Clapton did not stay in any bands for many years, only 1-2 years in every band. He often left the bands because he wanted to play one rock/blues way, but the bands often wanted another style.



The though time Clapton drew from the pool of musicians who played on Eric Clapton in forming Derek and the Dominos, which found him joined by keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. He was tired of being called a guitar "god" and that is why he played under the nameDerek. Since he did not use his own name their double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs did not sell so good in the start. But became one of the cornerstone rock records of the Seventies when people found out that he had made this album. Clapton became addicted to heroin during this period, and a second Derek and the Dominos album was begun but never completed as he became ever-more reclusive. He was than addicted to Heroin until he finally became clean in 1974 and than he started heavily drinking instead. even though these problems Clapton continued to release albums and toured regularly. The highlights was including no reason to cry, whose collaborators included Bob Dylan and The band, and Slowhand, which featured "Wonderful tonight", another song inspired by Pattie Boyd, and a second J.J. Cale cover, "Cocaine". All of these songs that i have mentioned frpm this black period in Claptons life are very known song. More known than the ones he had made before.

In 1975 Eric Clapton convinced his big love for many years Pattie Harrison to move from her husband and Beatles member George Harrison. Eric Clapton had been in love with Pattie for many years,, and he had written the famous lovesong Layla for her. Pattie left her husband, and Eric and Pattie got married in 1977. They continued being friends wieh George Harrison even after this.The following years Clapton continued drinkling more and more, and he started taking a lot of pain stopping medicine. His marriage soon started to break up, when even Pattie started drinking. The marriage ended when Clapton got the son Connor with the italian model Lori Del santo.

Tears in heaven In 1991 Eric Claptons son Conor Clapton fell out of a window in his mothers home in New York. This tragic accident was really though for Clapton, one of the things he did to get true this sorrow was to write songs about his song. He wrote the song “Tears in heaven” that maybe ironic enough became maybe his greatest hit ever and the song wan a lot of Grammys. He played the song many times, but he stopped playing it in 2004 because he felt that he finally had come over the sorrow. So he did not wanted to get reminded of his song by singing this song anymore.

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Albums made by Eric Clapton: · [|24 Nights Album] · [|461 Ocean Boulevard Album] · [|Another Ticket Album] · [|August Album] · [|Back Home Album] · [|Backless (24K Gold Disc) Album] · [|Behind The Sun Album] · [|Blues Album] · [|Bluesbreakers Album] · [|Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton 1981-1999 Album] · [|Cream Of Album] · [|Crossroads Album] · [|Crossroads 2 Album] · [|Early Stages Album] · [|Eric Clapton Album] · [|E.C. Was Here Album] · [|From The Cradle Album] · [|Journeyman Album] · [|Just One Night Album] · [|Me and Mr. Johnson Album] · [|Money & Cigarettes Album] · [|No Reason To Cry Album] · [|Pilgrim Album] · [|Rainbow Concert (Remastered) Album] · [|Rarities (with The Yardbirds) Album] · [|Reptile Album] · [|Slowhand Album] · [|There's One In Every Crowd Album] · [|Timepieces-Best Of Eric Clapton Album] · [|Timepieces 2 Album] · [|Unplugged Album]

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