He notes that Jethro Tull shed their folk and blues beginnings in favor of more experimental music after Clapton paved the ...

Eric Clapton announces Ohio State benefit concert for 2025 tour. All proceeds support his Crossroads Centre addiction ...

Led Zeppelin is the band that defined the 70s. That much is cleared. The songs, the performances, and even their image marked ...

Clapton's song 'Wonderful Tonight' is receiving a burst of popularity at time of another British invasion. This invasion is ...

Eric’s Mother Was Just 16 When She Had Him Getty Images. Eric Patrick Clapton was born to a teen mom just a few months before the end of World War II. His mother, Patricia Molly Clapton, 16, gave ...

Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton was also raised by his maternal grandparents, believing that they were his biological parents. Instead, the woman he believed was his sister, Patricia, was actually his ...

Eric Clapton: Kevin Winter / Getty Images for Crossroads Guitar Festival. ... "I think it’s best, after all they’ve done for you, that you go on calling your grandparents Mum and Dad." ...

Eric Clapton was the highest ranked artist on the 1998 list, at No. 15 between Marvin Gaye and John Lennon, who fell out of the top 100 in 2010. Cream fared better, making a small drop from No. 52 ...

NEA funding cuts hit Columbus arts organizations, but the show must go on Summer festivals to bring fun in the sun to Columbus and central Ohio Eric Clapton to play special Columbus concert before ...

Clapton also admired Harrison, which the Beatle said meant a great deal to him. “There’s things that Eric can do where it would take me all night to get it right – he can knock it off in one ...

Ruth Kelly Clapton was born in January 1985 to Eric and Yvonne Kelly, the manager of AIR Studios Montserrat who he began an affair with while still married to his first wife, Pattie Boyd.

Eric Clapton: A life in music as the iconic guitarist celebrates 80th birthday. ... However, Clapton was raised by his grandparents, Rose and Jack Clapp, ...