EC turns 80 tomorrow, and from 20:15 on BBC2 tonight there is lots of Slowhand stuff.
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He’s been my biggest music idol for 59 years.
As I suspect most people’s favourite musician does, hearing a Clapton song when I’m down makes most things a little better & when I’ve reason to celebrate an EC number always adds to the occasion.
Hard to believe he is 80 but his musical abilities are still much as they always were.
Quite surprising how many big name artists of the 60s/70s are still performing to such high standards. It’s hard for me imagining any of today’s biggest names performing to packed houses 60 years from now.
Eric’s ‘Life in 12 Bars’, his autobiography a few years ago & a Tom Petty documentary around the same time, illustrated that a rock stars life is not what most of us would imagine it to be. A lot of it being far from glamorous.
Still, a very happy birthday EC with, hopefully, many more to come.
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Yes I’ve read much, a troubled life in so many ways, but found his equilibrium in later life.
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My top guitarist from a list of many, a musical genius in guitar technique terms.
Troubled life and much misunderstood, but he came out of that when he straightened out.
Spanspeak drivers on full party mode via the Naim.
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ProAcs doing the same here!
I have been lucky enough to see him live three times at the NEC Birmingham.
My late wife was not a fan but came with me & when we were leaving the arena the first time said to me ‘I see why you like him now. He makes the guitar talk’.
She was keen to accompany me on the two further occasions
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