Slowhand came at a crucial point in Eric Clapton’s career. After more than a decade as rock’s reigning guitar god, the 32-year-old Cream and Derek and the Dominos leader had just released two ...

The slide guitar master thought he was being pranked during a family poker game — but calling Clapton back required an ...

Trucks was in the middle of a game of poker when Clapton came calling – but he didn't answer the phone ...

In March 2015, Eric Clapton turned 70. Two months later, he set up camp at London's Royal Albert Hall for a series of seven shows, 50 years after his first performance at the legendary venue with the ...

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist another No. 1. British guitarist Eric Clapton performing on stage at the ...

Nowadays, we see our favorite stars come of age on the Internet. Many modern celebrities and performers are discovered on YouTube or TikTok, allowing followers to watch their career from beginning to ...

Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed Slowhand ...

Eric Clapton celebrates his 70th birthday on Monday, music still throbbing in his veins. HT takes a look at the life and career of the master musician who has melded the blues and rock over the ...

“We had chords and a structure, but I didn’t have a song,” Eric Clapton says of the genesis of “Spiral,” an original blues on his new album, I Still Do. One day, his producer Glyn Johns, who “was ...

Over the course of the last decade, Eric Clapton hasn't made much spectacle of crucial turning points in his life and career( reunion with John Mayall or collaborations with Steve Winwood, J.J. Cale ...