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Eric Clapton was my favourite guitarist during my teenage years of the 1960’s. I went to see the Yardbirds in 1965 but he had already left, so i never got to see him but i have a lot of his records the last being Road to Escandido with J.J. Cale.

This autobiography is the story of survival in the drug and alcohol fueled life of this amazing guitarist whose career skyrocketed after the words Clapton is God appeared on a wall near Finchley Station in North London. I think at times in his early life he probably believed this as he charged through several bands notably The Yardbirds, The Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind faith, Derek and the Dominoes, Delany and Bonnie and a host of compilation bands. This musical story is done in chronological order and makes compelling reading.

Clapton was passionate about the Blues and along with stalwarts and influencers like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, John Mayall and a host of others, his story is a who’s who of the Blues world. Amazingly my favourite Clapton song is a version of the old standard with a bluesy theme

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Eric Clapton

British musician (born 1945)

This article is about the musician. For his album, see Eric Clapton (album).

Eric Patrick Clapton (born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music.^[2] He ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"^[3] and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".^[4] He was named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009.^[5]

After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds from 1963 to 1965, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from 1965 to 1966. After leaving Mayall, he formed the power trioCream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop".^[6] After four successful albums, Cream broke up in November 1968. Clapton then formed the blues

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, on March 30, 1945. His love of the blues and American R&B led him to learn guitar and study the masters. “The merest glimpse of Bo Diddley or Chuck Berry would send me into frenzies of delight,” he recalls. “So when I found the stuff that was behind it, Muddy Waters, and beyond that, Robert Johnson, and beyond that, the work song, it did something to me emotionally."

After pinch-hitting in a number of British blues bands in the Early'60s, Clapton rose to prominence in The Yardbirds, with a lineup that would eventually include the three top British guitar heroes of the decade- Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. He left in 1966 to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and after that he formed Cream with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, a band that quickly became the preeminent rock trio of the late '60s.

Rather than simply replicate the blues riffs he'd heard on record, Clapton incorporated the emotion of the original performances into his own style or playing, thus expan