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Eric Clapton didn't like or dislike The Grateful Dead's music. Rather, ... 3 Acts Who Are Keeping Jam Band Music Alive in a Post-Grateful Dead Era. May 29, 2025 10:48 am.
Guitar hero to legends such as Keith Richards and Eric Clapton dead at 86 Published: Apr. 29, 2025, 5:05 a.m. English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter Wizz Jones at the Priddy Folk ...
Eric Clapton is nothing if not a survivor. As he turns 80 tomorrow – with a major series of concerts in Japan, ... and found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot on the floor of his London flat.
Dead & Company Debut Eric Clapton Cover at Sphere Photo by Chloe Weir, courtesy of Chloe Weir/Dead & Company. Dead & Company’s second residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere continued last night.
A rare, eight-page draft letter John Lennon wrote to Eric Clapton in 1971, pitching him on a new musical project at one of the most tumultuous times in Clapton’s life, is headed to auction ...
Musicians including Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Bobby Weir, Taj Mahal, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff and more gathered to perform at Life is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson ...
As an in-demand lyricist, he won a shelf of awards for hits with Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and Dionne Warwick, as well as for the theme song for “Titanic.” By Clay Risen Will Jennings, an ...
Eric Clapton shares heartbreaking message after mentor’s death: ... ‘one of this world’s greatest road warriors,’ dead at 90; ... That I did that while he was alive, ...
British blues godfather and 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee John Mayall has died at the age of 90, He was pivotal in the careers of Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and more.
Eric Clapton, perhaps the best ... And I wish to make amends for that. I did that while he was alive, and I’ve obviously since learned that that is not the best way to carry on. I shall miss him.
John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90.
John Mayall, whose group the Bluesbreakers helped nurture many legends of British blues and rock including Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor, died July 22. He was 90.