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“Brand X was great fun to play with – not so much fun to listen to”: Phil Collins’ adventures outside Genesis with Robert Plant, Eric Clapton and others made him so big he had to apologise
By Mark Blake published
Wherever you looked in the 80s and 90s, there he was as a session man, producer or solo artist. But it wasn’t ego – it was down to his passion for music

Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb

Eric Clapton announces run of US 2025 autumn tour dates
By Liz Scarlett published
Guitar legend Eric Clapton will play a select number of US shows this September

The real story of the show that brought Eric Clapton back from the brink
By Johnny Black last updated
By mid-1971 Eric Clapton was a recluse with a heroin habit, until friends including Pete Townshend and George Harrison intervened to save his life

The Eric Clapton albums you should definitely listen to
By Henry Yates published
Eric Clapton's best albums, the cream of his decades-stradling crop

How Eric Clapton helped reinvent the blues with The Bluesbreakers’ landmark Beano album
By Harry Shapiro published
The epic story of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers’ 1966 blues rock milestone Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton

The stars shine on Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 collection
By Hugh Fielder published
Two nights, four CDs, one six-string feast

"You could make the kind of sound that could bring back the balls in rock ‘n’ roll": John Lennon's eight-page letter to Eric Clapton asking to start a band with him is headed to auction
By Liz Scarlett published
After their brief collaboration together in 1969 with the Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon had hopes of recruiting Clapton for a "revolutionary" new supergroup, one where wives and girlfriends were "welcome" on the road instead of "frowned upon"
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