Eric Clapton

 

Eric Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Surrey, England. By 1958, Rock and Roll had exploded onto the world. For his 13th birthday, Eric asked for a guitar. Eric spent his early days in music busking around Richmond and Kingston, he also began spending time in London and the West End. In early 1963, 17 year-old Eric joined his first band, The Roosters, but by August of that year the band had split. In October 1963, Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith recruited him to become a member of The Yardbirds because Clapton was the most talked about guitar player on the R&B pub circuit. With The Yardbirds he recorded his first albums: Five Live Yardbirds and Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds. Over the years, Clapton joined several different groups, but the demise of The Dominos in 1970 hit him the hardest and Eric sunk into three years of heroin addiction. He kicked his drug addiction and re-launched his career in January 1973, and throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, albums and tours would follow year in and year out. In his more than 40 year career, Eric Clapton has received many awards. He is the only triple inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (as a member of both the Yardbirds and Cream and as a solo artist). He has also won or shared in eighteen Grammy Awards.

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