Eric Clapton
British musician · United Kingdom · Musicians · Born 1945 · age 81 · also United States
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Something wrong?The guitarist who's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three separate times - once solo, once with the Yardbirds, once with Cream.
A life in dates
MeanwhileAlbum2017Commandeur des Arts et des LettresAward2016
I Still DoAlbum2014
The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ CaleAlbum2010
ClaptonAlbum2006Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward
The Road to EscondidoAlbum, 20062004Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward
Me and Mr JohnsonAlbum, 20042000Rock and Roll Hall of FameAwardKnockin' on Heaven's DoorAlbum1998
PilgrimAlbum1989
JourneymanAlbum1986British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original MusicAward1985
Behind the SunAlbum1983
Money and CigarettesAlbum1978
BacklessAlbum1977
SlowhandAlbum1975
There's One in Every CrowdAlbum1970“Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.”In their wordsJune 1970Layla (by Derek and the Dominos - 1970)“All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.”In their wordsJune 1970Clapton: The Autobiography“In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.”In their wordsJune 1970Clapton: The Autobiography, about his alcoholism in the 1980s“[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work.”In their wordsJune 1970Clapton: The Autobiography1945Born30 March 1945Also in Deutsch
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Clapton (second from left) with The Yardbirds in 1965.![Clapton has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London over 200 times since his first appearance there in 1964..[21]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Royal_Albert_Hall.001_-_London.JPG/1280px-Royal_Albert_Hall.001_-_London.JPG)
Clapton has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London over 200 times since his first appearance there in 1964..[21]
Clapton (right) as a member of Cream
Clapton's The Fool guitar (replica shown), with its bright artwork and famous "woman tone", was symbolic of the 1960s psychedelic rock era.
Blind Faith in 1969, with Clapton standing far right
Clapton (right) with Derek and the DominosIn their own words 5
, Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.
All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.
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MEMeanwhile
HXHappy Xmas
IDI Still Do
TCThe Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
OSOld Sock
TEThe Road to Escondido
MJMe and Mr Johnson
SJSessions for Robert J
RKRiding With the King
FCFrom the Cradle
BSBehind the Sun
MCMoney and Cigarettes
ATAnother Ticket
BABackless
SLSlowhand
NCNo Reason to CryAwards
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Eric Patrick Clapton was born 30 March 1945 and came up through local bands before joining the Yardbirds in 1963, then John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In 1966 he formed Cream with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce - sustained blues improvisations, arty psychedelic pop, four albums, then done by November 1968. He tried again with Blind Faith (one album, one tour), then Derek and the Dominos, which lasted just long enough to record Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and give him "Layla". The solo decades that followed were uneven but huge: a 1974 cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" that brought reggae to the mass market, the country-tinged Slowhand in 1977, the slick pop rock of August in 1986. After his son Conor died in 1991, he wrote "Tears in Heaven", which peaked at number two and became the centrepiece of his Unplugged album. He's won 18 Grammys, been awarded a CBE, founded a rehab facility in Antigua after his own recovery from addiction, and released his latest studio album, Meanwhile, in 2024.
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