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David Gilmour's iconic black Strat is now the most expensive guitar ever
By Fraser Lewry published
Cost-of-living crisis? What cost-of-living crisis?

"Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England
By Paul Brannigan published
"It doesn’t matter at all that she did not know who we are"

Eric Clapton announces US tour dates
By Fraser Lewry published
Clapton's US dates are in addition to his previously announced run of European shows and Royal Sandringham Estate festival appearance

“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
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