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“Clapton Is God,” an anonymous fan spray-painted that graffiti in an underground station in London in 1965. And in a sense, what that graffiti says isn’t wrong because Eric Clapton is indeed a god, one of the guitar gods who. As a blues guitar player, his contribution to the evolution of popular music is enormous and important. In 2007, Eric Clapton shared to the world the story of his life in a form of an autobiography. Clapton: The Autobiography chronicles the growth and journey he has gone through from a difficult childhood to the glamorous and often frantic life as a music superstar.

In this book, with flat-stare honesty, Eric Clapton tells every stage of his life that made him the man we know today. As an illegitimate son, he never new his father and it was not until he was nine years old that he knew his sister was actually his mother and his parents were actually his grandparents. Growing in such condition, he found salvation in music and started to learn playing guitar. His natural ability and his prowess in playing blues made him famous in clubs and music scenes in Britain.

Joining many groups and bands (Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos), especially the super-group Cream, Eric Clapton established himself as one of the world’s best guitar player. He was a superstar, a rockstar. He played with legendary musicians and bands, like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. His days of stardom during the 60s were chaotic, exciting, remarkably creative, and full of booze and drugs. The affair between him and Pattie Boyd, wife of his best friend and fellow guitarist George Harrison, is now a classic rock ‘n’ roll story and so is the song “Layla.” However, in the 80s, all the addiction and craziness stopped altogether when his beloved Conor, his four-year-old son, died in a terribly tragic accident. He sobered up and music, as always to him, became his salvation. Dedicated to his son, he wrote one of the best songs in music history “Tears in Heaven.”

 

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