Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed ...

It's ironic that Clapton is the world's most famous living Fender Stratocaster player, since he made his name playing Gibsons and was rarely seen with a Strat until after the death of Hendrix. And ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: There are very few guitars that enjoy the status of Eric Clapton’s beloved black Strat, ‘Blackie’, and back in 1994, Guitarist magazine was offered a close encounter. It so ...

he didn't make the switch to his "Brownie" Strat until early 1970, when he began performing with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, who in turn supported him on Eric Clapton. As Clapton detailed in a ...

Clapton had set the previous record price for a guitar at the 1999 auction when a 1956 Strat (“Brownie”) sold for $497,000. Clapton opened Crossroads in 1998. Last summer he held his third ...

If this is it for Eric Clapton – if the four-night run at ... and again in every fluid solo he tore through on his Fender Stratocaster, every flourish and strum on the frets and strings of ...

In tribute to his holiness – the lord of the Les Paul, the sultan of the SG, the sovereign of the Stratocaster – we offer this tribute of the Top 10 Eric Clapton Guitar Solos. The “Beano ...