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Danish Blues Power: Eric Clapton
Review and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 June 1974
"WE WANT Buddy Holly!... I AM Buddy Holly!" ...
Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, January 1992
CORRECTION. Eric Clapton was God. ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 October 1989
Ol' Slowhand on the perils and pressures of success; on drinking and addiction; on blues; on his romance and emotional immaturity; on those endless Albert Hall shows; on his love of the Band, Little Feat, the Stones and Jimi Hendrix; on punk rock and cricket; and on voting for Thatcher and why he still thinks racist demagogue Enoch Powell had a point...
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Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 6 March 1965
ERIC CLAPTON played his last date as lead guitarist with the Yardbirds last night. After a gig at Bristol Corn Exchange, he left the group. ...
Eric Clapton: The Yardbird Who Got Left Behind
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1965
His name is Eric Clapton. His nickname in the Yardbirds was "Slow-Hand" because he clapped his hands. He played on the Yardbirds' No. 1 hit ...
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers: Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
Sleeve notes by Neil Slaven, Decca Records, July 1966
IN JOHN MAYALL and Eric Clapton we have the two most dedicated blues musicians in this country. Together with John McVie and Hughie Flint, they ...
Pop Singles inc. the Beatles, Small Faces, John Mayall with Eric Clapton
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
CUTE & POTTY RINGO ...
John Mayall: Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Decca LK 4804)
Review by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, September 1966
JOHN MAYALL'S voice may not be the greatest example of blues singing there is, but he is sincere, and with blues fans that counts for ...
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, September 1967
THERE'S A dearth of purists in Britain. What's happened to them all, where have they got to? Most of them have "gone pop", leaving behind ...
Peter Townshend of the Who Talks! We Listen!
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1968
"I mean, everyone seems to be arguing who invented feedback. I mean, I did — without a doubt." The whole truth on feedback, Eric Clapton, ...
Cream Guitarist a Reluctant Idol
Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1968
ERIC CLAPTON is a guitarist who has had the misfortune of being nearly deified by rock 'n' roll fans at the age of 23. Clapton ...
Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 December 1968
THE ROLLING STONES put in some overtime last Wednesday when they spent 17 hours working on their telethon production of The Rock and Roll Circus ...
The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
IT WAS a group fan's dream, when the giants of pop held a three hour jam session, while rehearsing for the Rolling Stones' Rock And ...
Delaney & Bonnie: Out Of The South Comes 'The Best Band In The World'
Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969
WHEN A TOP musician becomes an unpaid press and public relations man for a group, it can be fairly assumed that the group must have ...
Delaney & Bonnie: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 3 December 1969
Update, 2019. IN THEIR short time between 1969 and 1972, Delaney and Bonnie were glorious, for their quality, knowledge, and expressed love and joy of ...
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 6 December 1969
AND A GOOD TIME was had by all at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday. It was the first British appearance of Delaney & Bonnie ...
George And Eric Inspire Each Other
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 December 1969
Friendship and a mutual love of music brought George Harrison and Eric Clapton together for the recent Delaney and Bonnie tour. At a stopover In ...
Derek & Dominoes at the Capitol
Live Review by Jon Tiven, New Haven Rock Press, 1970
Hammer was the first group to meet the Clapton-hungry crowd at the Capitol. They're a second generation San Francisco band of a vocalist who sings ...
Eric Clapton: God is a Guitarist
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1970
GEORGE HARRISON sat with a painfully thin fellow in a motorway restaurant, a graveyard of the digestion outside London. ...
Eric Clapton: Another Crossroad
Interview by Keith Altham, Fusion, 6 February 1970
MANY PEOPLE THINK that Eric Clapton is the best guitarist in the world. A veteran of the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Cream, all that ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 February 1970
Rock, Roll Show Not Up to Par ...
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Report by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1970
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was an entertainment extravaganza planned and put on by the Rolling Stones in December 1968. Originally done as ...
Howlin' Wolf: Wolf Gathers His Flock In London
Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 16 May 1970
WHEN THE early 1960s gave birth to the R&B boom in Britain, it was artists like Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters ...
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1970
LONDON – Even after Cream, Blind Faith, the Plastic Ono Band, and Delaney and Bonnie, after doing backup on the solo albums of George Harrison ...
New Albums from the Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton and the Everly Brothers
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 12 September 1970
Myth and music ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 18 September 1970
WHEN I HAVE to write something I mope. I mope and do other things. And I don't think about my topic. I only think about ...
An Interview with Eric Clapton
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Circus, October 1970
ERIC CLAPTON STARTED work on his solo album (Atco) while in Los Angeles with Delaney and Bonnie. He came back to England with the unfinished ...
The Week's Singles: Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, The Band et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970
Magnificent, dynamic Nyro ...
Eric Clapton: Rock — A Dilemma
Essay by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 19 March 1971
Michael Lydon views rock and roll as a space/time continuum, in which problems and, sometimes, solutions often arise. ...
Live Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971
GEORGE CREATES GREATEST ROCK SPECTACLE OF DECADE ...
Concert for Bangla Desh (Dir. Saul Swimmer; 20th Century Fox)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972
BANGLA FILM RELEASED ...
Eric Clapton & Pete Townshend: Go Get 'Em Eric
Interview by Bill Phillips, New Musical Express, 13 January 1973
BILL PHILLIPS previews the CLAPTON comeback concert – and talks to PETE TOWNSHEND ...
Live Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
THE NEWS THAT Pete Townshend had "formed an instant supergroup to back Eric Clapton when the guitarist makes his come-back at London's Rainbow Theatre on ...
Eric Clapton: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, February 1973
SO THERE'S THIS cat in the white suit smiling diffidently through his beard at the cheering hordes on the other side of the lights. He's ...
Pete Townshend part1: The True Saga Of Clapton's Rainbow Gig
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
IF YOU TURN up at the famous Track office in Soho's historic Old Compton Street, you're sure of a big surprise – there's a glitzy ...
Eric Clapton: King Of The Blues Guitar
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 October 1973
WHO IS THIS man Eric Clapton, of whom they speak so highly? Is he the world's greatest guitarist? Is he now a victim of rock ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 25 October 1973
In a form in which individual instrumental feats are often self-indulgent and superfluous, Eric Clapton's music remains an anomaly. His greatest guitar playing has been ...
Eric Clapton's Night of Stars — Inside the Rainbow Concert LP
Report by Stephen Demorest, Circus, November 1973
For two years, the solitary guitar-master slowly faded into the rock landscape, but thanks to Peter Townshend and a constellation of British stars, the legend is soaring back to his place in the heavenly firmament. ...
Eric Clapton at the China Garden
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 April 1974
A TURN UP for the books, and as it transpired, a turn up for the stomachs, when Eric Clapton announced his return to active service ...
The Rolling Stone Interview: Eric Clapton
Interview by Steve Turner, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1974
LONDON — Robert Stigwood, his manager, put it about as simply and as playfully as it could be put, after a celebration party in April: ...
Eric Clapton: A Hero Comes To Town
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 July 1974
PITTSBURGH, PA. – The tint on the TV screen gave the newscaster a peculiarly reddish face, almost as if he was genuinely quite excited about ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 17 August 1974
How come a lady who'd never played rock music in her life has recently been doing so with RSO record star Eric Clapton? ...
Eric Clapton: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 14 December 1974
THURSDAY NIGHT marked the final gig in the third of Eric Clapton's post-hibernation tours and in conjunction with the Wednesday night concert, the first time ...
Eric Clapton: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
Clapton duels with Wood ...
Eric Clapton: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, January 1975
IT'S ABOUT half past eight, the lights go down, the curtains go up, and we can all see a dimly lit stage, with the drums ...
Eric Clapton: There's One In Every Crowd
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1975
IT NEVER CEASES to amaze me – the sycophantic lengths so many "critics" go to in hyping the fashionable superstars' records. ...
Eric Clapton: There's One In Every Crowd (RSO)
Review by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, May 1975
Acupuncture is healing by means of the manipulation of energy centres on the surface of the body. Patti Boyd used to hang out with George ...
Eric Clapton: There's One In Every Crowd
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 22 May 1975
Eric Clapton's sense of well-being is reiterated on There's One in Every Crowd, but on this album it seems less a cause for joy than ...
Overview by Idris Walters, Sounds, 31 May 1975
...but can white rock and rollers sing the palm tree? wonders IDRIS WALTERS ...
Eric Clapton, Santana: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island
Live Review by Ian Dove, Cash Box, 12 July 1975
ERIC CLAPTON, kicking off his new American tour, provided the perfect program for his fans — a total recycling of his old hits. Initial baying ...
Eric Clapton: EC Was Here (RSO)
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 16 August 1975
"THE LIVE album," said long time Clapton producer Tom Dowd, "is the answer to everyone saying 'why doesn't Eric play more'?" ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975
HOWEVER ERIC CLAPTON spent his couple of years in isolation from the world, he returned to active performing refreshed and revitalised. ...
Eric Clapton: There's One In Every Crowd
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, September 1975
A NEW CLAPTON album is a treat at any time, and this is no exception to that personal rule. ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, November 1975
I HAVE NEVER knelt at the altar of Eric Clapton's guitar prowess. That is, the endless arguments about who possesses the most virtuoso fingers in ...
Eric Clapton: Please Take This Badge Off Of Me
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, November 1975
Trying to transcend the past, Eric Clapton puts reggae on the laidback burner and rediscovers electricity ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus Raves, December 1975
ALTHOUGH ULTIMATELY hopeful, Eric Clapton's greatest records – the towering Layla and the intimate 461 Ocean Boulevard – are liberally laced with sorrow and pain. ...
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, January 1976
TWO THINGS occur to me. Firstly, if I continue to review every Clapton album and concert, maybe one day I'll get the interview. Join me ...
The Crystal Palace Garden Party: E.C. Was Here…But Coryell Was Better
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 August 1976
THERE IS an aura of faded grace and decaying dignity about Crystal Palace, set upon the heights of Norwood in South London. Perhaps it stems ...
Letter by uncredited writer, Sounds, 28 August 1976
WHEN I READ about Eric Clapton's Birmingham concert when he urged support for Enoch Powell I nearly puked. ...
Eric Clapton: No Reason To Cry (RSO)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, October 1976
When Clapton’s good, he’s as good as they get — Layla stays in the "play" pile in every collection I have access to, Disraeli Gears ...
Eric Clapton: Farther On Up The Road
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 9 October 1976
DROUGHT? What drought? The green green grass of Surrey looks so healthy you'd think the local farmers had been secretly pumping chlorophyl injections into the ...
The Band's "Last Waltz": Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, Phonograph Record, December 1976
WHEN THE announcement came, 5,000 tickets at $25 each were sold out almost immediately. This was the final show, "The Last Waltz." The Band — ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, February 1977
If home is where the heart is, then Eric Clapton hides his emotions inside a sprawling countryside retreat aptly named Hurtwood Edge. The name of ...
Eric Clapton: Give Me Strength
Interview by Steve Turner, Sounds, 19 February 1977
Meg and George Patterson's cure for heroin addiction ...
Eric Clapton: Clapton God Again
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 May 1977
Eric Clapton/Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Eric Clapton: The Bullring, Ibiza
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 20 August 1977
IBIZA IS A VERY LONG way from the high pressure world of first division rock and roll. From the ancient Spanish women shrouded in all-concealing ...
Eric Clapton: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 25 February 1978
IN A GESTURE distinctly un God-like, Eric Clapton spurned the arena-sized venues of his last few tours to favour 6,000 Los Angelenos in a two-night ...
Eric Clapton: Return Of The Reluctant Hero
Interview by John Pidgeon, Creem, April 1978
THERE WAS once a movie actor who, having made his name as a heavy, took to playing the romantic lead. But no matter how often ...
Blackbushe Festival - Nice To See Ya, Bob
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 July 1978
...OR RATHER, IT would have been, but at least we heard him and that made the hassles worthwhile, reports our survivor of the million dollar ...
Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 2 December 1978
THE OLD Testament followed by the New (also written some while ago you will recall). For once there was hardly a vacant seat by half ...
Eric Clapton: The Lost Weekend
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
THE ERIC CLAPTON MOVIE – LOCATION: A darkened Glasgow street, swept by freezing wind. TIME: Friday night, just after the Burns Howf has closed. ...
Eric Clapton: Portrait Of The Artist As A Working Man
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978
IT HAS OFTEN been said that one of Eric Clapton's major problems over the years has been to find his own identity, a role in ...
Clapton: Driving Sideways Again
Live Review by Steve Turner, Melody Maker, 8 October 1979
DEAR Eric, On Sunday I came up to Staffordshire to see your warm-up concert with the new band. When you came out dressed in that ...
Eric Clapton: Farther Up The Road
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, May 1982
FEW MUSICIANS have been more misunderstood, more overburdened with great expectations and more erroneously worshipped than Eric Clapton. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982
IN A SENSE, it doesn't really matter whether one thinks of Eric Clapton as the man whose pioneering plagiarism helped black artists ranging from B.B. ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, The Guitar Greats, BBC publications, 1983
Out of the long list of potential candidates for this book, very few names were obvious and automatic choices, but one certainty for inclusion was ...
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 7 July 1983
Rock & roll gets in bed with corporate America ...
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 1984
ONE HAS ALWAYS suspected that Eric Clapton's worst enemy was his own reputation. Few people live with – much less live up to – the ...
Can Blue Boys Play The Whites Revisited?
Retrospective by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 19 March 1985
ANYONE WHO TAKES the crapped-out lethargy of his recent output as proof positive that Eric Clapton never played a worth while lick in his life ...
Eric Clapton: Behind the Sun (Warner Bros.); The Firm: The Firm (Atlantic)
Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1985
NOBODY EVER said it was easy being God. Nobody ever said it was a gig Eric Clapton even asked for. The man has spent most ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, December 1989
A CERTAIN self-deprecating irony is evident in the title of Eric Clapton's latest: a journeyman is certainly what he has become in his post-God years. ...
Eric Suits Himself: Clapton At Birmingham NEC Arena
Live Review by Michael Gray, The Times, 1990
ERIC CLAPTON IS a complex man – or, expressed in the terms his image encourages, he's an odd bloke, old Eric. ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, January 1990
Quietly reinvented, curiously coiffeured, steadfastly single, and with an unprecedented 18 sold-out shows at the Albert Hall, Eric Clapton enters the '90s more a battered ...
Eric Clapton: Journeyman (Warner Bros.)/Homeboy (Virgin soundtrack)
Review by Don Snowden, L.A. Weekly, 18 January 1990
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN this to me – why do so many venerable rock icons keep coming up with album or song titles that just beg for ...
Eric Clapton: Great Western Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, April 1990
OKAY, SO Eric Clapton isn't God. But try to convince the millions of six-stringers around the world who have tried and are still trying to ...
Lunching with the Elder Statesmen of Charity Rock: The Nordoff-Robbins Concert, Knebworth
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 2 July 1990
WHEN QUINCY JONES gathered together his USA For Africa superstars to record 'We are the World' five years ago, he pinned a sign outside the ...
Knebworth 90: The Billion Dollar Buskers
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...
Ray Cooper: Who Are Those Blokes Up There With Ray?
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, October 1990
Wherever stellar rockular personages gather together he's there at the back, shiny of pate and blurred of hand. But who is this Bongo Basher By ...
Eric Clapton: Blues God Without An Axe To Grind
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 2 February 1991
WHEN THAT crazed blues fanatic scrawled the words "CLAPTON IS GOD" on a London wall in 1966, he ushered in the cult of the guitar ...
RAR! RAR! Disputin'! The History of Rock Against Racism
Retrospective by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 October 1993
ON APRIL 16, 1990, a proud man who'd spent 27 years in the custody of a vicious racist regime arrived in London. He'd come to ...
The Odyssey: The Making Of Eric Clapton
Retrospective and Interview by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, March 1994
Of all the legends of the land of Greece, few are as epic and ill-starred as the tale of Eric Clapton, his five mates and ...
That's Another Fine Messiah You've Got Me Into
Comment by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 April 1996
John Lennon thought The Beatles were bigger than IT, some people think Elvis is/was IT and Michael Jackson seems to think he is IT. So ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 1998
WHITE GUYS from the '60s R&B generation don't get the same latitude as black "originals" to spend their last 20 or 30 years nestling back ...
Interview by Pete Paphides, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
In his continuing quest to improve the musical tastes of the stars, Record Doctor visits the godfather of British fashion. ...
Talkin' 'Bout A Spoonful: Hubert Sumlin, Eric Clapton and the evolution of blues guitar
Essay by Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris, 22 February 2004
FOR THE RECORD, I would like to state that my favourite bluesmen are Sonny Boy (Aleck 'Rice' Miller) Williamson and Professor Longhair, neither of whom ...
Profile by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, 30 March 2004
I see myself as kind of being like a lone guy on a quest.– Eric Clapton1 ...
Eric Clapton: Royal Abert Hall, London
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 9 May 2004
WOKE UP this morning, got those "I'm going to see Eric Clapton" blues. Said I woke up this morning, and… OK, let's be honest. For ...
Eric Clapton Stratocaster "Blackie" Becomes Most Expensive Guitar Sold at Auction
Report by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, 25 June 2004
ERIC CLAPTON'S prized Stratocaster "Blackie", brought $959,500 in the Christie's Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Auction, becoming the most expensive guitar ever to have been sold ...
Eric Clapton: From Sex and Drugs to Domestic Bliss
Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2005
IT'S DAY FOUR of Eric Clapton's week off from paternal duties, and the born-again family man doesn't know what to do with himself. On Monday ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, November 2005
IT OUGHT TO BE disconcerting that the toilet door is faulty and swings open of it's own accord catching MOJO in flagrante about to take ...
EC Is PC: Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall, 25 May 2006
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
ON A SUNNY SPRING evening Eric Clapton gave his sixth of seven gigs at the Royal Albert Hall, the "nation's village hall" as Queen Victoria ...
Eric Clapton: Clapton Is God...The Cream Of Early Eric
Sleeve notes by Neil Slaven, Castle Music, 2007
A VIGNETTE from the days when "God" walked the streets of London: Mike Vernon and I are making our way down Wardour Street towards Shaftesbury ...
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 19 September 2007
SHE IS PERHAPS rock's most famous muse: Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton. This lithe, leggy, blonde fashion model directly inspired a troika of classic rock's most ...
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography (Century)
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 14 October 2007
IT IS HARD to believe that the first book to spill the beans on Eric Clapton should arrive more than 40 years after the graffitied ...
Music books: the most debauched tales of rock'n'roll excess
Book Review by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 16 December 2007
HOW BETTER to salve the pangs of remorse induced by a season of over-indulgence than by voraciously consuming the reminiscences of those whose lifestyles make ...
Legendary Guitar: The Saga of Eric Clapton's Famous Fool SG
Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, Gibson.com, 16 April 2008
THE STORAGE CLOSET in Todd Rundgren's Mink Hollow Road studio was closed. But it wasn't locked. Big difference. If there were anything of value in ...
Eric Clapton: The Return of God
Profile and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, September 2008
To the faithful, Eric Clapton's guitar playing has always been sacred. But in 2008, from a Blind Faith reunion to a host of blazing session ...
The Eye That Sees Aright: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2010
IT'S RARE THAT ONE mixes Aristotle with rock, but it was impossible to ignore a giant eye rolling on the back projection screen during 'Voodoo ...
Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Kris DiLorenzo, Rock's Backpages, 29 June 2010
I DON'T KNOW who started that "Clapton is God" business. God is clearly Jeff Beck. ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 5 April 2012
The "Father of Loud", he gave his name to the world-famous, ubiquitous amplifier. ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 3 September 2012
RIPLEY... EPSOM... WALLINGTON. The names hardly resonate in the way that Clarksdale or Greenville or Natchez do. Yet in their way these Surrey towns are ...
This Must Be The Place: Holy Grails and Musical Meccas in Pop Culture
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Fall 2012
FOR TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT, my oral history of Led Zeppelin, one of the interviews I conducted was with Dave Bates, an almost-famous A&R man from ...
Crossroads Guitar Festival: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, April 2013
Two nights. Nine-and-a-half hours. Thirty-three guitar players (more or less). Ninety-one songs. ...
Eric Clapton: How God Saved Himself
Retrospective by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2014
God playing reggae, rather than 'Sunshine Of Your Love'? You're kidding me! Yes, Eric Clapton's return to vinyl in 1974 really was that radical, shocking ...
Eric Clapton: Planes, Trains and Eric (Castle Rock)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, November 2014
"IF I DON'T do it, I get cravings to come out and do it," says Clapton at the start of the ungainly titled, but revealing, ...
The Domino Effect: How One of Toronto's Most Iconic Rock Concerts Almost Never Happened
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 13 April 2015
FOR MANY, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival of 1969 is the stuff of legends. For some, like famed rock promoter and pop culture icon ...
New Horizons: Mike Vernon (Part One)
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, December 2015
WITHOUT PRODUCER and label boss Mike Vernon, the history of British blues would look very different. In the first part of a feature charting his ...
Review by Hugh Fielder, loudersound.com, 13 May 2016
WHILE HIS live albums have maintained a remarkable degree of consistency and professionalism, Eric Clapton's studio albums have sometimes wavered in comparison. Essentially, Clapton needs ...
Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since '76
Essay by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 9 August 2016
During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades ...
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