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Eric Patrick ClaptonCBE (born 30 March ) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. 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 " 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 ^[5]

After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds from to , and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from to 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 Clapton then formed the blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech, recording one album and performing on one tour before they broke up.

Clapton then toured with Delaney & Bonnie and recorded his first solo album in , before forming Derek and the Dominos with Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon. Like Blind Faith, the band only lasted one album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, which includes "Layla", one of Clapton's signature songs.

Clapton continued to record a number of successful solo albums and songs over the next several decades, including a cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" (which helped reggae reach a mass market),^[7] the country-infused Slowhand album () and the pop rock of 's August.

Following the death of his son Conor in , Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which appeared on his Unplugged album. In he had another top hit with the R&B crossover "Change the World". In , he released the Grammy award-winning "My Father's Eyes". Since , he has recorded a number of traditional blues and blues rock albums and hosted the periodic Crossroads Guitar Festival.

His latest studio album, Meanwhile, was released in

Clapton has received 18 Grammy Awards as well as the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.^[8][9] In , he was awarded a CBE for services to music.^[10] He has received four Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. In his solo career, he has sold million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.^[11] In , Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for those recovering from substance abuse.^[12]

Early life

Clapton was born on 30 March in Ripley, Surrey, England, to year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (–) and Edward Walter Fryer (–), a year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec.^[13] Fryer was drafted to war before Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada.

Clapton grew up believing that his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, Patricia's stepfather, were his parents, and that his mother was actually his older sister. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather).^[14] Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany,^[15] leaving Eric with his grandparents in Surrey.^[16]

Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest.^[16] Two years later he picked it up again and started playing consistently.^[16] He was influenced by blues music from an early age, and practised long hours learning the chords of blues music by playing along to the records.^[17] He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder, listening to them over and over until he was satisfied.^[17][18]

In , after leaving Hollyfield School in Surbiton, he studied at the Kingston College of Art but was expelled at the end of the academic year because his focus had remained on music rather than art.

His guitar playing was sufficiently advanced that, by the age of 16, he was getting noticed.^[18] Around this time, he began busking around Kingston, Richmond, and the West End.^[19] In , he started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast Dave Brock in pubs around Surrey.^[18] When he was 17, he joined his first band, an early British R&B group, the Roosters, whose other guitarist was Tom McGuinness.

He stayed with them from January until August ^[12] In October of that year, he performed a seven-gig stint with Casey Jones & the Engineers.^[12]

Career

The Yardbirds and the Bluesbreakers

Main articles: The Yardbirds and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

In October , Clapton joined the Yardbirds, a rhythm and blues band, and stayed with them until March Synthesising influences from Chicago blues and leading blues guitarists such as Buddy Guy, Freddie King, and B.B.

King, Clapton forged a distinctive style and rapidly became one of the most talked-about guitarists in the British music scene.^[20] The band initially played Chess/Checker/Vee-Jay blues numbers and began to attract a large cult following when they took over the Rolling Stones' residency at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London.

They toured England with American bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II; a joint LP album, recorded in December , was issued in

Yardbirds' rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, he would stay on stage and replace it. The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing what is called a "slow handclap".

Clapton's nickname of "Slowhand" came from Giorgio Gomelsky, a pun on the slow handclapping that ensued when Clapton stopped playing while he replaced a string.^[22] In December , Clapton made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with the Yardbirds.^[21] Since then, Clapton has performed at the Hall over times, and has stated that performing at the venue is like "playing in my front room".^[23][24]

In March , Clapton and the Yardbirds had their first major hit, "For Your Love", written by songwriter Graham Gouldman, who also wrote hit songs for Herman's Hermits and the Hollies (and later achieved success of his own as a member of 10cc).

In part because of its success, the Yardbirds elected to move toward a pop-orientated sound, much to the annoyance of Clapton, who was devoted to the blues and not commercial success. He left the Yardbirds on the day that "For Your Love" went public, a move that left the band without its lead guitarist and most accomplished member.

Clapton suggested fellow guitarist Jimmy Page as his replacement, but Page declined out of loyalty to Clapton,^[25] putting Jeff Beck forward.^[20] Beck and Page played together in the Yardbirds for a while, but Beck, Page, and Clapton were never in the group together. They first appeared together in on the date benefit tour for Action for Research into multiple sclerosis with the first date on 23 September at the Royal Albert Hall.^[26]

Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in April , only to quit a few months later.

In June, Clapton was invited to jam with Jimmy Page, recording a number of tracks that were retroactively credited to The Immediate All-Stars. In the summer of he left for Greece with a band called the Glands, which included his old friend Ben Palmer on piano. After a car crash that killed the bassist and injured the guitarist of the Greek band the Juniors, on 17 October the surviving members played memorial shows in which Clapton played with the band.^[27] In October he rejoined John Mayall.

In March , while still a member of the Bluesbreakers, Clapton briefly collaborated on a side project with Jack Bruce and Steve Winwood among others, recording only a few tracks under the name Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse. During his second Bluesbreakers stint, Clapton gained a reputation as the best blues guitarist on the club circuit.

Although Clapton gained fame for playing on the influential album, Blues Breakers – John Mayall – With Eric Clapton, this album was not released until he had left the band for the last time in July The album itself is often called The Beano Album by fans because of its cover photograph showing Clapton reading the British children's comic The Beano.^[28]

Having swapped his Fender Telecaster and Vox AC30 amplifier for a Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar and Marshall amplifier, Clapton's sound and playing inspired the famous slogan "Clapton is God", spray-painted by an unknown admirer on a wall in Islington, North London in ^[29] The graffito was captured in a now-famous photograph, in which a dog is urinating on the wall.

Clapton is reported to have been embarrassed by the slogan, saying in his The South Bank Show profile in , "I never accepted that I was the greatest guitar player in the world. I always wanted to be the greatest guitar player in the world, but that's an ideal, and I accept it as an ideal".^[30]

Cream

Main article: Cream (band)

Clapton left the Bluesbreakers in July (replaced by Peter Green) and was invited by drummer Ginger Baker to play in his newly formed band Cream, one of the earliest supergroups, with Jack Bruce on bass (Bruce was previously of the Bluesbreakers, the Graham Bond Organisation and Manfred Mann).^[31] Before the formation of Cream, Clapton was not well known in the United States; he left the Yardbirds before "For Your Love" hit the US top ten, and had yet to perform there.^[32] During his time with Cream, Clapton began to develop as a singer, songwriter and guitarist, though Bruce took most of the lead vocals and wrote the majority of the material with lyricist Pete Brown.^[20] Cream's first gig was an unofficial performance at the Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester on 29 July before their full debut two nights later at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor.

Cream established its enduring legend with the high-volume blues jamming and extended solos of their live shows.

By early , fans of the emerging blues-rock sound in the UK had begun to portray Clapton as Britain's top guitarist; however, he found himself rivalled by the emergence of Jimi Hendrix, an acid rock-infused guitarist who used wailing feedback and effects pedals to create new sounds for the instrument.^[33] Hendrix attended a performance of the newly formed Cream at the Central London Polytechnic on 1 October , during which he sat in on a double-timed version of "Killing Floor".^[33] Top UK stars, including Clapton, Pete Townshend and members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, avidly attended Hendrix's early club performances.

Hendrix's arrival had an immediate and major effect on the next phase of Clapton's career.^[34]

Clapton first visited the United States while touring with Cream. In March , Cream performed a nine-show stand at the RKO Theater in New York. Clapton's painted Gibson SG guitar – The Fool – a "psychedelic fantasy", according to Clapton,^[35] made its debut at the RKO Theater.

Clapton used the guitar for most of Cream's recordings after Fresh Cream, particularly on Disraeli Gears, until the band broke up in ^[36] One of the world's best-known guitars, it symbolises the psychedelic era.^[36] They recorded Disraeli Gears in New York from 11 to 15 May Cream's repertoire varied from hard rock ("I Feel Free") to lengthy blues-based instrumental jams ("Spoonful").

Disraeli Gears contained Clapton's searing guitar lines, Bruce's soaring vocals and prominent, fluid bass playing, and Baker's powerful, polyrhythmic jazz-influenced drumming. Together, Cream's talents secured them as an influential power trio. Clapton's voice can be heard on Frank Zappa's album We're Only in It for the Money, on the tracks "Are You Hung Up?" and "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music".

In 28 months, Cream had become a commercial success, selling millions of records and playing throughout the US and Europe. They redefined the instrumentalist's role in rock and were one of the first blues-rock bands to emphasise musical virtuosity and lengthy jazz-style improvisation sessions. Their US hit singles include "Sunshine of Your Love" (No.

5, ), "White Room" (No. 6, ) and "Crossroads" (No. 28, ) – a live version of Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues". Though Cream were hailed as one of the greatest groups of its day, and the adulation of Clapton as a guitar legend reached new heights, the supergroup was short-lived. Drug and alcohol use escalated tension between the three members, and conflicts between Bruce and Baker eventually led to Cream's demise.

A strongly critical Rolling Stone review of a concert of the group's second headlining US tour was another significant factor in the trio's demise, and it affected Clapton profoundly.^[37] Clapton has also credited Music from Big Pink, the debut album of The Band, and its revolutionary Americana sound as influencing his decision to leave Cream.^[38][39]

Cream's farewell album, Goodbye, comprising live performances recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, on 19 October , was released shortly after Cream disbanded.

It also spawned the studio single "Badge", co-written by Clapton and George Harrison (Clapton had met and become close friends with Harrison after the Beatles shared a bill with the Clapton-era Yardbirds at the London Palladium). In , Clapton played the lead guitar solo on Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", from the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album").

Harrison's debut solo album, Wonderwall Music (), became the first of many Harrison solo records to include Clapton on guitar. Clapton went largely uncredited for his contributions to Harrison's albums due to contractual restraints, and Harrison was credited as "L'Angelo Misterioso" for his contributions to the song "Badge" on Goodbye.

The pair often played live together as each other's guest. A year after Harrison's death in , Clapton was musical director for the Concert for George.^[40]

In January , when the Beatles were recording and filming what became Let It Be, tensions became so acute that Harrison quit the group for several days, prompting John Lennon to suggest they complete the project with Clapton if Harrison did not return.^[41]Michael Lindsay-Hogg, television director of the recording sessions for Let It Be, later recalled: "I was there when John mentioned Clapton – but that wasn't going to happen.

Would Eric have become a Beatle? No. Paul [McCartney] didn't want to go there. He didn't want them to break up. Then George came back."^[42] Clapton was on good terms with all four of the Beatles; in December he had played with Lennon at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus as part of the one-off group the Dirty Mac.^[43]

Cream briefly reunited in to perform at the ceremony inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A full reunion took place in May , with Clapton, Bruce and Baker playing four sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall,^[44] and three shows at New York's Madison Square Garden that October.^[45] Recordings from the London shows, Royal Albert Hall London May , , were released on CD, LP and DVD in late ^[46]

Blind Faith

Main article: Blind Faith

Clapton's next group, Blind Faith, formed in , was composed of Cream drummer Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood of Traffic, and Ric Grech of Family, and yielded one LP and one arena-circuit tour.

The supergroup debuted before , fans in London's Hyde Park on 7 June ^[47] They performed several dates in Scandinavia and began a sold-out American tour in July before their only album was released. The LP Blind Faith consisted of just six songs, one of them the hit "Can't Find My Way Home". Another, "Presence of the Lord", is the first song credited solely to Clapton.^[48] The album's jacket image of a topless pubescent girl was deemed controversial in the US and was replaced by a photograph of the band.

Blind Faith dissolved after less than seven months.^[49]

Delaney & Bonnie and first solo album

Main article: Delaney & Bonnie

Clapton subsequently toured as a sideman for an act that had opened for Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. He also performed as a member of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in September , a recording from which was released as the album Live Peace in Toronto .^[50] On 30 September, Clapton played lead guitar on Lennon's second solo single, "Cold Turkey".^[51] On 15 December that year, Clapton performed with Lennon, Harrison and others as the Plastic Ono Supergroup at a fundraiser for UNICEF in London.^[50]

Delaney Bramlett encouraged Clapton in his singing and writing.

Using the Bramletts' backing group and an all-star cast of session players (including Leon Russell and Stephen Stills), Clapton recorded his first solo album during two brief tour hiatuses, titled Eric Clapton. Delaney Bramlett co-wrote six of the songs with Clapton, also producing the LP,^[52] and Bonnie Bramlett co-wrote "Let It Rain".^[53] The album yielded the unexpected US No.&#;18 hit, J.

J. Cale's "After Midnight".

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Clapton also worked with much of Delaney and Bonnie's band to record George Harrison's All Things Must Pass in spring

During this period, Clapton also recorded with artists such as Dr. John, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Dave Mason. With Chicago blues artist Howlin' Wolf, he recorded The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, that also included long-time Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin and members of the Rolling Stones, Winwood and Starr.^[54] Despite the superstar line-up, critic Cub Koda noted: "Even Eric Clapton, who usually welcomes any chance to play with one of his idols, has criticized this album repeatedly in interviews, which speaks volumes in and of itself."^[54] Other noted recordings from this period include Clapton's guitar work on "Go Back Home" from Stephen Stills' self-titled first solo album.^[55]

Derek and the Dominos

Main article: Derek and the Dominos

With the intention of counteracting the "star" cult faction that had begun to form around him, Clapton assembled a new band composed of Delaney and Bonnie's former rhythm section, Bobby Whitlock as keyboardist and vocalist, Carl Radle as the bassist, and drummer Jim Gordon, with Clapton playing guitar.

It was his intention to show that he need not fill a starring role, and functioned well as a member of an ensemble.^[56] During this period, Clapton was increasingly influenced by The Band and their album Music from Big Pink, saying: "What I appreciated about the Band was that they were more concerned with songs and singing.

They would have three- and four-part harmonies, and the guitar was put back into perspective as being accompaniment. That suited me well, because I had gotten so tired of the virtuosity – or pseudo-virtuosity – thing of long, boring guitar solos just because they were expected. The Band brought things back into perspective. The priority was the song."^[57]

The band was originally called "Eric Clapton and Friends".

The eventual name was a fluke that occurred when the band's provisional name of "Del and the Dynamos" was misread as Derek and the Dominos.^[58] Clapton's biography states that Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke told Clapton to call the band "Del and the Dominos", since "Del" was his nickname for Eric Clapton. Del and Eric were combined and the final name became "Derek and the Dominos".^[59]

Clapton's close friendship with George Harrison brought him into contact with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, with whom he became deeply infatuated.

When she spurned his advances, Clapton's unrequited affections prompted most of the material for the Dominos' album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (). Heavily blues-influenced, the album features the twin lead guitars of Clapton and Duane Allman, with Allman's slide guitar as a key ingredient of the sound. Working at Criteria Studios in Miami with Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, who had worked with Clapton on Cream's Disraeli Gears, the band recorded a double album.

The album contained the hit love song "Layla", inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and went crazy because he could not marry her.^[60][61] The two parts of "Layla" were recorded in separate sessions: the opening guitar section was recorded first, and for the second section, laid down a few weeks later, drummer Jim Gordon played the piano part for the melody, which he claimed to have written (though Bobby Whitlock stated that Rita Coolidge wrote it).^[59]

The Layla LP was actually recorded by a five-piece version of the group, thanks to the unforeseen inclusion of guitarist Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band.

A few days into the Layla sessions, Dowd – who was also producing the Allmans – invited Clapton to an Allman Brothers outdoor concert in Miami.

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The two guitarists met first on stage, then played all night in the studio, and became friends. Duane first added his slide guitar to "Tell the Truth" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". In four days, the five-piece Dominos recorded "Key to the Highway", "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (a blues standard popularised by Freddie King and others) and "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad?" In September, Duane briefly left the sessions for gigs with his own band, and the four-piece Dominos recorded "I Looked Away", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Keep on Growing".

Allman returned to record "I Am Yours", "Anyday" and "It's Too Late". On 9 September, they recorded Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the title track. The following day, the final track, "It's Too Late", was recorded.^[62]

Tragedy dogged the group throughout its brief career. During the sessions, Clapton was devastated by news of the death of Jimi Hendrix; eight days previously the band had cut a cover of "Little Wing" as a tribute.

On 17 September , one day before Hendrix's death, Clapton had purchased a left-handedFender Stratocaster that he had planned to give to Hendrix as a birthday gift. Adding to Clapton's woes, Layla received only lukewarm reviews upon release. The shaken group undertook a US tour without Allman, who had returned to the Allman Brothers Band.

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Despite Clapton's later admission that the tour took place amid a blizzard of drugs and alcohol, it resulted in the live double album In Concert.^[63]

Recording of a second Dominos studio album was underway when a clash of egos took place and Clapton walked out, thus disbanding the group.

Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident on 29 October Clapton wrote later in his autobiography that he and Allman were inseparable during the Layla sessions in Florida; he talked about Allman as the "musical brother I'd never had but wished I did".^[64] Although Radle remained Clapton's bass player until the summer of (Radle died in May from the effects of alcohol and narcotics), it was not until that Clapton and Whitlock appeared together again; Clapton guested on Whitlock's appearance on the Later with Jools Holland show.

Another tragic footnote to the Dominos story was the fate of drummer Jim Gordon, who had undiagnosed schizophrenia and years later murdered his mother during a psychotic episode. Gordon was confined to years-to-life imprisonment, later being moved to a mental institution, where he remained for the rest of his life.^[20]

Personal problems and early solo success

Clapton's career successes in the s were in stark contrast with the struggles he coped with in his personal life, which was troubled by romantic longings and drug and alcohol addiction.^[65] Still infatuated with Boyd and torn by his friendship with Harrison, he withdrew from recording and touring to isolation in his Surrey residence as the Dominos broke up.

He nursed a heroin addiction, which resulted in a lengthy career hiatus interrupted only by performing at Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh benefit shows in New York in August ; there, he passed out on stage, was revived, and managed to finish his performance.^[20] In January , the Who's Pete Townshend organised a comeback concert for Clapton at London's Rainbow Theatre, titled the "Rainbow Concert", to help Clapton kick his addiction.

Clapton returned the favour by playing "The Preacher" in Ken Russell's film version of the Who's Tommy in His appearance in the film (performing "Eyesight to the Blind") is notable as he is clearly wearing a fake beard in some shots, the result of deciding to shave off his real beard after the initial takes in an attempt to force the director to remove his earlier scene from the film and leave the set.^[59]

In , Clapton started living with Boyd (they would not marry until ) and was no longer using heroin (although he gradually began to drink heavily).

He assembled a low-key touring band that included Radle, Miami guitarist George Terry, keyboardist Dick Sims (who died in ),^[66] drummer Jamie Oldaker, and vocalists Yvonne Elliman and Marcy Levy (also known as Marcella Detroit). With this band Clapton recorded Ocean Boulevard (), an album with an emphasis on more compact songs and fewer guitar solos; the cover version of "I Shot the Sheriff" was Clapton's first number one hit.

The album There's One in Every Crowd continued this trend. The album's original title, The World's Greatest Guitar Player (There's One in Every Crowd), was changed before pressing, as it was felt its ironic intention would be misunderstood. The band toured the world and subsequently released the live LP E.

C. Was Here.^[67] Clapton continued to release albums and toured regularly. Highlights of the period include No Reason to Cry (a collaboration with Bob Dylan and The Band); Slowhand, which contained "Wonderful Tonight" and a second J. J. Cale cover, "Cocaine". In , he performed as one of a string of notable guests at the farewell performance of The Band, filmed in a Martin Scorsese documentary titled The Last Waltz.^[68]

Continued success

In , Clapton was invited by producer Martin Lewis to appear at the Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in London.

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Eric Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, on March 30, His real father was a Canadian pilot but he didn't find that out until he was When he was 2 his mother felt she was unable to look after him, so Eric then went to live with his grandparents.

Clapton accepted the invitation and teamed up with Jeff Beck to perform a series of duets – reportedly their first ever billed stage collaboration. Three of the performances were released on the album of the show, and one of the songs appeared in the film. The performances at London's Drury Lane theatre heralded a return to form and prominence for Clapton in the new decade.

Many factors had influenced Clapton's comeback, including his "deepening commitment to Christianity", to which he had converted prior to his heroin addiction.^[69][70][71]

After calling his manager and admitting he was an alcoholic, Clapton flew to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in January and checked in at Hazelden Treatment Center, located in Center City, Minnesota.

On the flight over, Clapton indulged in a large number of drinks, for fear he would never be able to drink again. Clapton wrote in his autobiography:^[72]

In the lowest moments of my life, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead. It was the only thing I thought was worth living for, and the idea that people were about to try and remove me from alcohol was so terrible that I drank and drank and drank, and they had to practically carry me into the clinic.

After being discharged, it was recommended by doctors of Hazelden that Clapton not partake in any activities that would act as triggers for his alcoholism or stress.

But it did happen. Clapton would go back to the Hazelden Treatment Center in November He has stayed sober ever since. A few months after his discharge from his first rehab, Clapton began working on his next album, against doctors' orders. Working with Tom Dowd, he produced what he thought as his "most forced" album to date, Money and Cigarettes.

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Clapton chose the name of the album "because that's all I saw myself having left" after his first rehabilitation from alcoholism.^[73]

In , he performed on former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, and participated in the supporting tour.

Since then Waters and Clapton have had a close relationship. In , they performed together for the Tsunami Relief Fund. In , they performed at the Highclere Castle in aid of the Countryside Alliance and played two set pieces of "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb".

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Clapton, now a regular charity performer, played at the Live Aid concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on 13 July , playing with Phil Collins, Tim Renwick, Chris Stainton, Jamie Oldaker, Marcy Levy, Shaun Murphy and Donald 'Duck' Dunn.^[74] When offered a slot close to peak viewing hours, he was apparently flattered.

His album output continued in the s, including two produced with Phil Collins, 's Behind the Sun, which produced the hits "Forever Man" and "She's Waiting", and 's August.^[75]

August was suffused with Collins's trademark drum and horn sound, and became Clapton's biggest seller in the UK to date, matching his highest chart position, number 3.

The album's first track, the hit "It's in the Way That You Use It", appeared in the Tom Cruise–Paul Newman film The Color of Money. The songs "Tearing Us Apart" (with Tina Turner) and "Miss You" continued Clapton's more angry sound. This rebound kicked off Clapton's two-year period of touring with Collins and their August collaborators, bassist Nathan East and keyboard player/songwriter Greg Phillinganes.

While on tour for August, two concert videos were recorded of the four-man band: Eric Clapton Live from Montreux and Eric Clapton and Friends. Clapton later remade "After Midnight" as a single and a promotional track for the Michelob beer brand, which had also used earlier songs by Collins and Steve Winwood.

Clapton won a British Academy Television Award for his collaboration with Michael Kamen on the score for the BBC television thriller series Edge of Darkness. At the Brit Awards in London, Clapton was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music.^[9] In , he played on George Harrison's album Cloud Nine, contributing guitar to "Cloud 9", "That's What It Takes", "Devil's Radio" and "Wreck of the Hesperus".^[76]

Clapton also got together with the Bee Gees for charity.

The supergroup called itself the Bunburys, and recorded a charity album with the proceeds going to the Bunbury Cricket Club in Cheshire, which plays exhibition cricket matches to raise money for nonprofit organisations in England. The Bunburys recorded three songs for The Bunbury Tails: "We're the Bunburys", "Bunbury Afternoon" and "Fight (No Matter How Long)".

The last song also appeared on The Summer Olympics Album and went to No. 8 on the rock music chart.^[77] Clapton played at the cricket club's 25th anniversary celebrations in , which were held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.^[78] In , he played with Dire Straits and Elton John at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium and the Prince's Trust rock gala at the Royal Albert Hall.^[79] In , Clapton released Journeyman, an album that covered a wide range of styles, including blues, jazz, soul and pop.

Collaborators included George Harrison, Phil Collins, Daryl Hall, Chaka Khan, Mick Jones, David Sanborn and Robert Cray. The song "Bad Love" was released as a single and later won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.^[80]

Son's death, "Tears in Heaven"

The s brought a series of 32 concerts to the Royal Albert Hall, such as the 24 Nights series of concerts that took place around January through February , and February to March On 30 June , Dire Straits, Clapton and Elton John made a guest appearance in the Nordoff-Robbins charity show held at Knebworth in England.^[81] On 27 August , fellow blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was touring with Clapton, and three members of their road crew were killed in a helicopter crash between concerts.

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Then, on 20 March , Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of his mother's friend's New York City apartment at East 57th Street. Clapton was informed of his son's death through a hysterical phone call by the boy's mother Lory Del Santo. Once comprehending what had happened he described feeling like he "went off the edge of the world" and ran to the scene.

The first person to offer condolences towards Clapton was friend and fellow guitarist Keith Richards, who himself had lost his young son Tara in ^[82] Conor's funeral took place on 28 March at St Mary Magdalene's Church in Clapton's home village in Ripley, Surrey, with Conor buried in the church graveyard.^[83] After his son's death Clapton began attending AA meetings.^[82] In , Clapton appeared on Richie Sambora's album, Stranger in This Town, in a song dedicated to him, called "Mr.

Bluesman". He contributed guitar and vocals to "Runaway Train", a duet with Elton John on the latter's The One album the following year.^[84]

Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which was co-written by Will Jennings.^[86][87] At the 35th Annual Grammy Awards, Clapton received six Grammys for the single "Tears in Heaven" and his Unplugged album,^[88] for which Clapton performed live in front of a small audience on 16 January at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, Berkshire, England.

The album reached number one on the Billboard , and is certified Diamond by the RIAA for selling over 10 million copies in the US.^[89] It reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and is certified four times platinum in the UK.^[90] On 9 September , Clapton performed "Tears in Heaven" at the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Male Video.^[91][92]

In , Clapton received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.^[93] In October Clapton was among the dozens of artists performing at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.

Recorded at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the live two-disk CD/DVD captured a show full of celebrities performing classic Dylan songs, with Clapton playing the lead on a nearly 7-minute version of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" as part of the finale.^[94] While Clapton played acoustic guitar on Unplugged, his album From the Cradle contained new versions of old blues standards, highlighted by his electric guitar playing.^[95] In , Clapton for the first and only time appeared on a UK No.

1 single, collaborating with Cher, Chrissie Hynde, and Neneh Cherry on a solo to a cover of "Love Can Build a Bridge" released in aid of the British charity telethon Comic Relief.^[96]

On 12 September Clapton played a party for Armani at New York City's Lexington Armory with Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Steve Gadd.

Sheryl Crow appeared on one number, performing "Tearing Us Apart", a track from August, which was first performed by Tina Turner during the Prince's Trust All-Star Rock show in It was Clapton's sole US appearance that year, following the open-air concert held at Hyde Park.^[97] The concert was taped and the footage was released both on VHS video cassette and later, on DVD.^[97] Clapton's recording of the Wayne Kirkpatrick/Gordon Kennedy/Tommy Sims tune "Change the World" (on the soundtrack of the film Phenomenon) won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in , the same year he recorded Retail Therapy (an album of electronic music with Simon Climie under the pseudonym TDF).

On 15 September , Clapton appeared at the Music for Montserrat concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, performing "Layla" and "Same Old Blues" before finishing with "Hey Jude" alongside fellow English artists Paul McCartney, Elton John, Phil Collins, Mark Knopfler and Sting.^[98] That autumn, Clapton released the album Pilgrim, the first record containing new material for almost a decade.^[71]

In , Clapton had a relationship with singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow.

They remain friends, and Clapton appeared as a guest on Crow's Central Park Concert. The duo performed a Cream hit single, "White Room". Later, Clapton and Crow performed an alternate version of "Tulsa Time" with other guitar legends at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in June as well as Robert Johnson's blues classic "Crossroads" at London's Hyde Park in August with John Mayer and Robert Randolph.

At the 41st Annual Grammy Awards on 24 February , Clapton received his third Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, for his song "My Father's Eyes".^[99] In October , the compilation album, Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton, was released, which contained a new song, "Blue Eyes Blue", that also appears in soundtrack for the film, Runaway Bride.^[][] Clapton finished the twentieth century with collaborations with Carlos Santana and B.B.

King. Clapton looked up to King and had always wanted to make an album with him, while King said of Clapton, "I admire the man. I think he's No. 1 in rock 'n' roll as a guitarist and No. 1 as a great person."^[]

Collaboration albums

Clapton released the album Reptile in March One month after the 11 September attacks, Clapton appeared at the Concert for New York City, performing alongside Buddy Guy.^[][] An event marking the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in June , Clapton performed "Layla" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Party at the Palace concert in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.^[] On 29 November , the Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall, a tribute to George Harrison, who had died a year earlier of lung cancer.^[] Clapton was a performer and the musical director.

The concert included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ravi Shankar, Gary Brooker, Billy Preston, Joe Brown and Dhani Harrison.^[] In , Clapton released two albums of covers of songs by bluesman Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. Johnson and Sessions for Robert J.

Guitarist Doyle Bramhall II worked on the album with Clapton (after opening Clapton's tour with his band Smokestack) and joined him on his tour. In , Rolling Stone ranked Clapton No.&#;53 on their list of the " Greatest Artists of All Time".^[] Other media appearances include the Toots & the Maytals Grammy award-winning album True Love, where he played guitar on the track "Pressure Drop".^[]

On 22 January , Clapton performed in the Tsunami Relief Concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in aid of the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake.

In May , Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker reunited as Cream for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Concert recordings were released on CD and DVD. Later, Cream performed in New York at Madison Square Garden. Clapton's first album of new original material in nearly five years, Back Home, was released on Reprise Records on 30 August.

A collaboration with guitarist J. J. Cale, The Road to Escondido, was released on 7 November , featuring Derek Trucks and Billy Preston (Preston had also been a part of Clapton's touring band). He invited Trucks to join his band for his – world tour. Bramhall remained, giving Clapton three elite guitarists in his band, allowing him to revisit many Derek and the Dominos songs that he hadn't played in decades.

Trucks became the third member of the Allman Brothers Band to tour supporting Clapton, the second being pianist/keyboardist Chuck Leavell, who appeared on the MTV Unplugged album and the 24 Nights performances at the Royal Albert Hall, London in and , as well as Clapton's US tour.^[]

On 20 May , Clapton performed with Queen drummer Roger Taylor and former Pink Floyd bassist/songwriter Roger Waters at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, in support of the Countryside Alliance, which promotes issues relating to the British countryside.^[] On 13 August , Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in Columbus, Ohio, playing guitar on three songs in Jimmie Vaughan's opening act.^[] The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite the Derek Trucks Band to open for Clapton's set at his Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Trucks remained on set and performed with Clapton's band throughout his performances. The rights to Clapton's official memoirs, written by Christopher Simon Sykes and published in , were sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair for US$4 million.^[]

In , Clapton learned more about his father, a Canadian soldier who left the UK after the war.

Although Clapton's grandparents eventually told him the truth about his parentage, he only knew that his father's name was Edward Fryer. This was a source of disquiet for Clapton, as witnessed by his song "My Father's Eyes". A Montreal journalist named Michael Woloschuk researched Canadian Armed Forces service records and tracked down members of Fryer's family, and finally pieced together the story.

He learned that Clapton's father was Edward Walter Fryer, born 21 March , in Montreal and died 15 May in Newmarket, Ontario. Fryer was a musician (piano and saxophone) and a lifelong drifter who was married several times, had several children, and apparently never knew that he was the father of Eric Clapton.^[] Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at Macdonald–Cartier Airport, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.^[]

On 26 February , it was reported that Clapton had been invited to play a concert in North Korea by government officials.^[] Clapton agreed in principle and suggested it take place in ^[] Kristen Foster, a spokesperson for Clapton, said that he regularly received offers to play abroad and that there had been no agreement for him to play in North Korea.^[] In February , Clapton performed with his long-time friend Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden and guested on his recorded single, "Dirty City", on Winwood's album Nine Lives.

The two former Blind Faith bandmates met again for a series of 14 concerts throughout the United States in June Clapton's Summer Tour began on 3 May at the Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa, Florida, and then moved to Canada, Ireland, England, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, and Monaco. On 28 June , he headlined Saturday night for Hard Rock Calling in London's Hyde Park (previously Hyde Park Calling) with support from Sheryl Crow and John Mayer.^[][]

In March , the Allman Brothers Band (amongst many notable guests) celebrated their 40th year, dedicating their string of concerts to the late Duane Allman on their annual run at the Beacon Theatre.

Eric Clapton was one of the performers, with drummer Butch Trucks remarking that the performance was not the typical Allman Brothers experience, given the number and musical styles of the guests who were invited to perform. Songs like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" were punctuated with others, including "The Weight", with Levon Helm; Johnny Winter sitting in on Hendrix's "Red House"; and "Layla".

On 4 May Clapton appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, playing "Further on Up the Road" with Joe Bonamassa.

Clapton was scheduled to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary concert in Madison Square Garden on 30 October , but cancelled due to gallstone surgery.^[]Van Morrison (who also cancelled)^[] said in an interview that he and Clapton were to do a "couple of songs", but that they would do something else together at "some other stage of the game".^[]

Clapton, Old Sock, I Still Do, and Happy Xmas

Clapton performed a two-night show with Jeff Beck at the O₂ Arena in London on 13–14 February ^[] The two former Yardbirds extended their tour with stops at Madison Square Garden,^[] the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and the Bell Centre in Montreal.^[] Clapton performed a series of concerts in 11 cities throughout the United States from 25 February to 13 March , including Roger Daltrey as opening act.

His third European tour with Steve Winwood began on 18 May and ended 13 June, including Tom Norris as opening act. He then began a short North American tour lasting from 26 June to 3 July, starting with his third Crossroads Guitar Festival on 26 June at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. Clapton released a new studio album, Clapton, on 27 September in the United Kingdom and 28 September in the United States.

On 17 November , Clapton performed as guest on the Prince's Trust rock gala held at the Royal Albert Hall, supported by the house band for the evening, which included Jools Holland, Midge Ure and Mark King.^[]

On 24 June , Clapton was in concert with Pino Daniele in Cava de' Tirreni stadium before performing a series of concerts in South America from 6 to 16 October He spent November and December touring Japan with Steve Winwood, playing 13 shows in various cities throughout the country.

On 24 February Clapton, Keith Richards, Gary Clark Jr., Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Kim Wilson and other artists performed together in the Howlin' For Hubert Tribute concert held at the Apollo Theater of New York City honouring blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin who died at age 80 on 4 December On 29 November , Clapton joined the Rolling Stones at London's O2 Arena during the band's second of five arena dates celebrating their 50th anniversary.^[] On 12 December, Clapton performed The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden, broadcast live via television, radio, cinemas and the Internet across six continents.^[] In January , Surfdog Records announced a signed deal with Clapton for the release of his forthcoming album Old Sock on 12 March.

On 8 April , Eric and Hard Rock International launched the limited-edition Eric Clapton Artist Spotlight merchandise programme benefiting Crossroads Centre Antigua.^[] Clapton toured the US and Europe from 14 March to 19 June to celebrate 50 years as a professional musician.^[] On 28 February , Clapton announced his intention to stop touring in due to hassles with travel.^[][]

On 15 October , Clapton's popular Unplugged album and concert DVD were re-released, titled Unplugged: Expanded & Remastered. The album includes the original 14 tracks, remastered, as well as 6 additional tracks, including 2 versions of "My Father's Eyes".

The DVD includes a restored version of the concert, as well as over 60 minutes of unseen footage from the rehearsal. On 13 and 14 November , Clapton headlined the final two evenings of the "Baloise Session", an annual indoor music festival in Basel, Switzerland. On 20 November , Warner Bros released Crossroads Guitar Festival in CD/DVD/Blu-ray.

On 30 April , Clapton announced the release of