Eric Clapton's impact goes way past his great guitar play; he stands as a long-lasting link between UK rock and US blues ways. From his first days making crowds go wild with The Yardbirds and giving ...

He notes that Jethro Tull shed their folk and blues beginnings in favor of more experimental music after Clapton paved the ...

The master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset took him from repair shop to working with the biggest names ...

The guitarist has detailed how to mimic infamous Les Paul and SG tones from the instrument, believing its versatility is ...

More than mere instruments, the most valuable guitars of all time are revered pop culture artefacts. All but one of the ...

We are taking a closer look at who The Beatles' George Harrison would call his favourite guitarist of all time. It's a player that not many will know ...

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From Lead Belly to Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour has celebrated a host of guitarists over the years, but to him there is only one he describes as his favourite.

As Clapton detailed in a 1994 interview with Guitar World, the virtuoso’s passing made him consider the Stratocaster in a deeper way. "Once he wasn’t there any more, I felt like there was room ...

Clapton also admired Harrison, which the Beatle said meant a great deal to him. “There’s things that Eric can do where it would take me all night to get it right – he can knock it off in one ...

Clapton’s stage-played and signed Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster sold for $65,000, while Ike Everly’s 1950 Gibson ES5 Electric Archtop Guitar went for $25,400.

As of 1970, Clapton had turned to the Fender Stratocaster as his primary axe of choice. His #1 Strat was a 1956 two-tone sunburst with a maple neck.