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Eric Clapton

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Eric Clapton Slowhand 1977 Мелодия (СССР)

 

AKA born: Eric Patrick Clapp
Born Mar 30, 1945 in Ripley, England
Styles Blues-Rock, Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, British Blues, Album Rock, Hard Rock

Biography

Eric ClaptonBy the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world’s major rock stars due to his group affiliations — the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith — affiliations that had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock guitarist of his generation. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit «After Midnight», was typical of his self-effacing approach: it was, in effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.

Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F ranks the personnel for a group, Derek and the Dominos, with which he played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972, due to heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert (September 1973).

But Clapton did not launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461 Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the number one single «I Shot the Sheriff».

The persona Clapton established over the next decade was less that of guitar hero than arena rock star with a weakness for ballads. The follow-ups to 461 Ocean Boulevard, There’s One in Every Crowd (March 1975), the live E. C. Was Here (August 1975), and No Reason to Cry (August 1976), were less successful. But Slowhand (November 1977), which featured both the powerful «Cocaine» (written by JJ Cale, who had also written «After Midnight») and the hit singles «Lay Down Sally» and «Wonderful Tonight», was a million-seller. Its follow-ups, Backless (November 1978), featuring the Top Ten hit «Promises», the live Just One Night (April 1980), and Another Ticket (February 1981), featuring the Top Ten hit «I Can’t Stand It», were all big sellers.

Clapton’s popularity waned somewhat in the first half of the ’80s, as the albums Money and Cigarettes (February 1983), Behind the Sun (March 1985), and August (November 1986) indicated a certain career stasis. But he was buoyed up by the release of the box set retrospective Crossroads (April 1988), which seemed to remind his fans of how great he was. Journeyman (November 1989) was a return to form.

It would be his last new studio album for nearly five years, though in the interim he would suffer greatly and enjoy surprising triumph. On March 20, 1991, Clapton’s four-year-old son was killed in a fall. While he mourned, he released a live album, 24 Nights (October 1991), culled from his annual concert series at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and prepared a movie soundtrack, Rush (January 1992). The soundtrack featured a song written for his son, «Tears in Heaven», that became a massive hit single.

In March 1992, Clapton recorded a concert for MTV Unplugged that, when released on an album in August, became his biggest-selling record ever. Two years later, Clapton returned with a blues album, From the Cradle, which became one of his most successful albums, both commercially and critically. Crossroads 2: Live in the ’70s, a box set chronicling his live work from the ’70s, was released to mixed reviews. In early 1997, Clapton, billing himself by the pseudonym «x-sample», collaborated with keyboardist/producer Simon Climie as the ambient new age and trip-hop duo T. D. F. The duo released Retail Therapy to mixed reviews in early 1997.

Clapton retained Climie as his collaborator for Pilgrim, his first album of new material since 1989’s Journeyman. Pilgrim was greeted with decidedly mixed reviews upon its spring 1998 release, but the album debuted at number four and stayed in the Top 10 for several weeks on the success of the single «My Father’s Eyes». In 2000, Clapton teamed up with old friend BB King on Riding With the King, a set of blues standards and material from contemporary singer/songwriters. Another solo outing entitled Reptile followed in early 2001.

Three years later, Clapton issued Me and Mr. Johnson, a collection of tunes honoring the Mississippi-born bluesman.

Discography (albums)

1970 Eric Clapton
1973 Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert [live]
1974 461 Ocean Boulevard
1975 There’s One in Every Crowd
1975 E. C. Was Here [live]
1976 No Reason to Cry
1977 Slowhand
1978 Backless
1980 Just One Night [live]
1981 Another Ticket
1983 Money and Cigarettes
1984 Too Much Monkey Business
1985 Behind the Sun
1986 August
1989 Homeboy
1989 Journeyman
1991 24 Nights [live]
1992 Rush
1992 Unplugged [live]
1993 Stages [live]
1994 From the Cradle
1995 Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert [Expanded] [live]
1997 Live in Montreux
1998 Pilgrim
1998 Rock Report: Deserted Cities of the Heart
1999 Pilgrim [Bonus Track]
2000 Riding with the King
2001 Reptile
2001 Reptile [Japan Bonus Track]
2002 Eric Clapton Live
2002 One More Car, One More Rider [live]
2002 One More Car: One More Rider [Enhanced… [live]
2004 Reptile [Import Bonus Track]
2004 Me and Mr. Johnson
2004 Guitar Boogie

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