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

Recorded at Miami’s Criteria Studios on September 9, 1970, Carl Radle helped ground the mega-hit beneath the immortal pairing ...

Eric Clapton was the highest ranked artist on the 1998 list, at No. 15 between Marvin Gaye and John Lennon, who fell out of the top 100 in 2010. Cream fared better, making a small drop from No. 52 ...

Eric was making plans. He was excited to spend more time with his little boy. The following day, he had promised Conor a trip to the Bronx Zoo and lunch at a local Italian restaurant.

Ruth Kelly Clapton was born in January 1985 to Eric and Yvonne Kelly, the manager of AIR Studios Montserrat who he began an affair with while still married to his first wife, Pattie Boyd.

A handwritten letter which sees John Lennon pitching a new band to Eric Clapton is going under the auctioneer’s hammer.. The eight-page letter, which is dated Sept. 29, 1971, is a draft of the ...

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Eric Clapton eventually brought the song back to his setlists in 2013, and he sparingly performs it live today. Photo by Stephen Lovekin. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Eric Clapton and the song he said he'd never play live again: ... It reunited him with an organic style of acoustic blues – leading to the outstanding From The Cradle album of 1994 – and was a ...

Eric Clapton’s handwritten messages, being auctioned this week, shed light on how he wooed Pattie Boyd away from George Harrison and on the impassioned songs the affair inspired.

In a love triangle for the ages, Eric Clapton tried to woo '60s supermodel Pattie Boyd with secret love letters while she was married to George Harrison — when the two rockers were best friends.

Mementoes from the personal collection of British photographer and model Pattie Boyd, who inspired a raft of famous songs by former husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton, are going under the ...