The guitar was auctioned – alongside his Cream-era Cherry Red ES-335 – in 2004 to support the Crossroads rehabilitation ...

Eric Clapton ended a recent concert in Spain early after he was struck by an object thrown by someone in the audience. While performing at the Movistar Arena in Madrid on May 7, a concertgoer threw ...

Most stints in rehab take place secretly, or at the very least privately. Then there was Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert, which served as an all-too-public, one-night cold turkey of sorts that ...

Eric Clapton Unplugged…Over 30 Years Later, now streaming on Paramount+, revisits the Hall of Fame singer, guitarist, and songwriter’s 1992 acoustic set for MTV, which revitalized his career for a new ...

Slowhand says guitars have been his inspiration and salvation, but when he said goodbye to his two most-famous electrics in 2004, it was for a higher purpose ...

Eric Clapton turned to the healing power of music at one of his darkest personal moments. It was surely never part of the plan, but the results became one of the biggest hits from an incredibly ...

Eric Clapton was on a mission from the start and there was no time to waste. He joined the Yardbirds in ’63, left in ’65 to join up with John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers, and within 12 months he had ...

When The Beatles first started, Paul McCartney and John Lennon dominated the songwriting side of things. Their partnership, known as Lennon-McCartney, is one of the most successful and prolific ...

In the same way that Louis Armstrong was at center of the genesis of Jazz in the 1920s, so was Eric Clapton at the center of the British Blues invasion of the 1960s. Between 1965 and 1970, in turn, ...

When one thinks of guitar virtuoso Eric Clapton, one often thinks of the very concept of the supergroup. His most famous supergroup, Cream, is widely considered to be the very first supergroup.

Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix’s careers began around the same time in 1962, and their paths crossed quite a few times. In 1966, Hendrix and Clapton met when the former attended a Cream performance in ...