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Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1945-03-30 (Age: 81)
Place of Birth
Ripley, Surrey, England, UK
Eric Clapton
Biography
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Clapton 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 Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. In the mid sixties, Clapton left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand", and graffiti in London declared "Clapton is God." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, the power trio, Cream, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the seventies, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped gain reggae a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998 Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Clapton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (167)
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
2026
Pino
2025
Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later
2025
The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words
2024
Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023
2024
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
2024
Eric Clapton: To Save A Child - An Intimate Live Concert
2024
Eric Clapton: The Definitive 24 Nights - Orchestral
2023
Eric Clapton - The Definitive 24 Nights - Blues
2023
Eric Clapton: The Definitive 24 Nights - Rock
2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2023
Eric Clapton: Across 24 Nights
2023
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
2023
Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
2022
