Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JANUARY 01: ROYAL ALBERT HALL Photo of Eric CLAPTON, performing live onstage, playing Martin acoustic guitar. If there’s one song ...

Eric Clapton said he’d found new inspiration in the idea of writing the protest songs that caused a backlash and lost him friends. In a new interview with the Real Music Observer (video below), ...

Eric Clapton is still frustrated, though his new single moves beyond the lockdown-related complaints that have dominated his most recent output. The just-released "This Has Gotta Stop," which you can ...

British-born guitarist Eric Clapton is known for his rampaging rock songs and love of the blues. But not everything the all-timer has put to record is cut from the cloth of songs like “Cocaine” or ...

Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

Eric Clapton is not, and never was, God. Contrary to the London graffiti that deified him as a hotshot young guitar hero, he is, like the rest of us, a flawed mortal who, unlike the rest of us, is ...

Talking about Eric Clapton can get a little thorny these days. While many recognize him as one of the greatest guitar players ever, he has also had his fair share of controversial moments, whether ...

Lex Williams is a music writer and film critic, who shares her time between North Carolina and New York City. From a young age, Lex has always had a passion for arts in all its forms, having worked in ...

“Weird Al” Yankovic had parodied songs by numerous artists; however, he wasn’t keen on parodying one of Eric Clapton’s classic rock songs. During an interview, Yankovic said he wouldn’t want to parody ...

The Beatle and Clapton briefly crossed paths several times throughout the first half of the 1960s. However, they didn’t become friends until the latter part of the decade. In Martin Scorsese’s ...