Eric Patrick Clapton, one of the guitar legends. When Eric Clapton first got a guitar in when he turned fifteen, he could not play so he almost gave up, but he tried and tried until he became a very good guitar player. He joined his first band in about 1960 ,"The roosters" not so popular. Eric Clapton is known for being a great musician, writing great lyrics and doing great guitar solo's such as "In The Presence Of The Lord". Eric Clapton has been in MANY bands, The Roosters, Casey Jones and the Engineers The Yardbirds, John Mayall & Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Derek and the Dominoes, he has been solo. Some of his most famous songs are "Me and Mr.Jonson", "Change the World", "Layla", and "For your Love".
Eric Clapton has played all types of music going from Blues to Regge and pop because of the many bands. Most of his lyrics are about big things that have happened in his life for example "Tears in Heaven" he writes about his son. Eric Clapton really loves the Blues so thats one of his great insperations. Eric Clapton admires people like Bob Marley, Bo Diddley and Bob Dylan, Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and primarily Robert Johnson. Something funny about Eric Clapton is that he is also called "slow hand" because when he breacks a string on stage he fixes it himself while the croud claps slowly.
Eric Clapton was on a comeback playing with many people such as Roger Waters, George Harrison, Phil Collins, Daryl Hall, Chaka Khan, Mick Jones, David Sanborn and Robert Cray, and Michael Kamen
