What with my escapades in Clapton the other day I'm suddenly seeing a lot of London. |
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Clapton would have snatched a draw but for another late goal from never-say-die Dorking. |
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The move reinvigorated Clapton, bringing him back to his love of music and saving him from drugs. |
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Clapton and then-girlfriend Alice Ormsby-Gore were using heavily, and he was having trouble making music or performing. |
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This performance of bob Dylan's 1971 blues tune features Clapton on guitar. |
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He is a sprawling maverick with a gravel-slide voice and bluesy guitar copied by Eric Clapton, idolised by Phil Collins and revered for his gruff love ballads. |
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But Winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert. |
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Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. |
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Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently. |
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Around this time, Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, and the West End. |
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In 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. |
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In December 1964, Clapton made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with the Yardbirds. |
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Clapton suggested fellow guitarist Jimmy Page to be his replacement, but Page declined out of loyalty to Clapton, putting Jeff Beck forward. |
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Beck and Page played together in the Yardbirds for a while, but Beck, Page, and Clapton were never in the group together. |
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During his second Bluesbreakers stint, Clapton gained a reputation as the best blues guitarist on the club circuit. |
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Harrison's debut solo album, Wonderwall Music, in 1968, became the first of many Harrison solo records to include Clapton on guitar. |
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A year after Harrison's death in 2001, Clapton was musical director for the Concert for George. |
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Clapton subsequently toured as a sideman for an act that had opened for Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. |
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McCartney and Starr were among the musicians who performed at the Concert for George, organised by Eric Clapton and Harrison's widow, Olivia. |
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On 15 December 1969 Clapton performed with Lennon, George Harrison, and others as the Plastic Ono Band at a fundraiser for UNICEF in London. |
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At their second show in London on 29 November the group were joined onstage by Eric Clapton and Florence Welch. |
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Eric Clapton is a regular performer at the Hall, it having played host to his concerts almost annually for over 20 years. |
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In December 1964, Clapton made his first appearance at the Hall with the Yardbirds. |
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Instead, the Bee Gees got together with Eric Clapton to create a group called 'the Bunburys' to raise money for English charities. |
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Townshend considered himself less technical than guitarists such as Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and wanted to stand out visually instead. |
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Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. |
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In 1989, Clapton released Journeyman, an album which covered a wide range of styles including blues, jazz, soul and pop. |
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At the 1987 Brit Awards in London, Clapton was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music. |
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Unplugged features Clapton performing live in front of a small audience on 16 January 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, Berkshire, England. |
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In October 1992 Clapton was among the dozens of artists performing at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration. |
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That autumn, Clapton released the album Pilgrim, the first record featuring new material for almost a decade. |
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They remain friends, and Clapton appeared as a guest on Crow's Central Park Concert. |
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In May 2005 Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker reunited as Cream for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. |
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On 26 February 2008, it was reported that North Korean officials had invited Clapton to play a concert in the communist state. |
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In 2007 Clapton learned more about his father, a Canadian soldier who left the UK after the war. |
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Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at Macdonald Cartier Airport, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
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Clapton released a new studio album, Clapton, on 27 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and 28 September 2010 in the United States. |
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In January 2013, Surfdog Records announced a signed deal with Clapton for the release of his forthcoming album Old Sock on 12 March. |
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Clapton toured the US and Europe from 14 March to 19 June 2013 to celebrate 50 years as a professional musician. |
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On 28 February 2013, Clapton announced his intention to stop touring in 2015 due to hassles with travel. |
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On 21 June 2014, Clapton abruptly walked off stage during a concert at the Glasgow Hydro. |
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Clapton has performed more times at Madison Square Garden than any other US venue, a total of 45 times. |
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Clapton stated blues musician Robert Johnson to be his single most important influence. |
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Clapton commented on the slim profile of the neck, which would indicate it was a 1960 model. |
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In July 1968 Clapton gave George Harrison a 1957 'goldtop' Gibson Les Paul that been refinished with a red colour, nicknamed Lucy. |
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In 1981 Clapton gave his signed Fender Lead II guitar to the Hard Rock Cafe to designate his favourite bar stool. |
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In 2004 Clapton organised and participated in the Crossroads Guitar Festival to benefit the centre. |
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On 12 September 1996 Clapton played a party for Armani at New York City's Lexington Armory with Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Steve Gadd. |
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Clapton was featured in the movie version of Tommy, the first full length rock opera, written by the Who. |
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In March 2007 Clapton appeared in an advertisement for RealNetwork's Rhapsody online music service. |
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In 1984 while recording Behind The Sun, Clapton began a relationship with Yvonne Kelly, the manager of AIR Studios Montserrat. |
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Clapton and Boyd tried unsuccessfully to have children, even trying in vitro fertilisation in 1984, but were faced instead with miscarriages. |
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Clapton is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance which promotes issues relating to the British countryside. |
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Among the other vehicles Clapton owns or has owned during his life are a vintage Mini Cooper Radford which was a gift from George Harrison. |
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Clapton has organised the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 1999, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 to raise funds for this centre. |
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Clapton is a fan of English Premier League football club West Bromwich Albion. |
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In the late 1970s Clapton positioned a West Brom scarf on the back cover of his album, Backless. |
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Disc 1 presents Clapton as a Yardbird and also backing blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson. |
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In 1965 Eric Clapton had his first UK top-ten single as a member of the Yardbirds. |
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There are a couple of rarities here, too, especially when Clapton played with Martha Velez and Bonzo Dog Doodah Band leader Vivian Stanshall. |
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A second record was in the works when a clashing of egos took place and Clapton walked, thus disbanding the group. |
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In 1981 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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The performances at London's Drury Lane theatre heralded a return to form and prominence for Clapton in the new decade. |
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On the flight over, Clapton indulged in a large number of drinks, for fear he would never be able to drink again. |
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A few months after his discharge, Clapton began working on his next album, against the Hazelden doctors' orders. |
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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. |
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In 2004 Clapton released CDs and DVDs entitled Sessions for Robert Johnson, featuring covers of Robert Johnson songs using electric and acoustic guitars. |
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In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. |
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Eric Clapton went on to form supergroups Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos, followed by an extensive solo career that helped bring blues rock into the mainstream. |
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In late 1969 Clapton made the switch to the Fender Stratocaster. |
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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. |
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On September 30, Chandler brought Hendrix to the London Polytechnic at Regent Street, where Cream was scheduled to perform, and where Hendrix and Eric Clapton met. |
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Since then Waters and Clapton have had a close relationship. |
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Clapton won a British Academy Television Award for his collaboration with Michael Kamen on the score for the 1985 BBC Television thriller serial Edge of Darkness. |
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In 1988 Fender introduction his signature Eric Clapton Stratocaster. |
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Like Eric Clapton, he popularised use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver an exaggerated sense of pitch in his solos. |
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Clapton would also get together with the Bee Gees for charity. |
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Clapton uses Ernie Ball Slinky and Super Slinky strings, gauge. |
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Clapton frequently appears as a guest on the albums of other musicians. |
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Delaney Bramlett encouraged Clapton in his singing and writing. |
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Yardbirds' rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, he would stay on stage and replace it. |
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On 22 January 2005, Clapton performed in the Tsunami Relief Concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. |
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Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. |
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On 13 August 2006, Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in Columbus, Ohio, playing guitar on three songs in Jimmie Vaughan's opening act. |
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The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite The Derek Trucks Band to open for Clapton's set at his 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival. |
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Clapton and Pattie Boyd married in 1979 and had no children. |
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Clapton first visited the United States while touring with Cream. |
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Top UK stars, including Clapton, Pete Townshend, members of the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles, avidly attended Hendrix's early club performances. |
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Clapton performed a series of concerts in 11 cities throughout the United States from 25 February to 13 March 2010, including Roger Daltrey as opening act. |
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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. |
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On 29 November 2012, Clapton joined The Rolling Stones at London's O2 Arena during the band's second of five arena dates celebrating their 50th anniversary. |
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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. |
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On 5 August 1976, Clapton provoked an uproar and lingering controversy when he spoke out against increasing immigration during a concert in Birmingham. |
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In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he was not a political person and that his rambling remarks that night were not appropriate. |
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In 2014, Clapton explained that Ferrari is still his favourite car brand. |
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Clapton managed hits like Layla, Hoochie Coochie Man and Tears in Heaven. |
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Both Clapton and the venue apologised the next day, blaming 'technical difficulties' for making sound conditions 'unbearable' for Clapton on stage. |
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King and Clapton, so no surprise that the latest from this cutie-pie guitar wunderkind fuses his Grammy Award-winning pop chops with legit blues influences. |
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But with gallstones, thought to affect as many as one in six people, with famous sufferers including the likes of Eric Clapton and the Dalai Lama, it's not quite that simple. |
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