"It’s too simple to play because it’s based on a five-note scale, and I had come way past that," the guitarist says ...

He notes that Jethro Tull shed their folk and blues beginnings in favor of more experimental music after Clapton paved the ...

Eric Clapton was the highest ranked artist on the 1998 list, at No. 15 between Marvin Gaye and John Lennon, who fell out of the top 100 in 2010. Cream fared better, making a small drop from No. 52 ...

Pilgrim might be a good example of this as your "I won’t listen to anything past Slowhand ’" fans give way to "I like the new Eric Clapton song I heard on the Lite Rock station" fans.

Two of Pilgrim ’s tracks are about Conor: the heartfelt but surprisingly upbeat My Father’s Eyes and Circus, a forlorn flamenco about his son’s last trip to Chipperfield’s. The latter – and the sense ...

Eric Clapton is not the only artist heading to MSG this year. Here are a few more artists you don’t want to miss out on: Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Katy Perry and Dua Lipa.

Eric Clapton experienced both sides of that spectrum, but as he attempted to write about something truly unspeakably painful, the battle with his mind and his muses made it difficult. Lived experience ...

When you earn the nickname God at 20 years old, where do you possibly go from there? It’s not an apocryphal story either; the cult of personality surrounding Eric Clapton was that strong, though ...

Eric Clapton's son Conor died at 4 years old after falling from a window in New York City in 1991. The rocker speaks about the tragedy in a resurfaced 1992 interview featured in 'Eric Clapton ...

In many ways, Conor Clapton’s tragic death marked the rebirth of Eric Clapton. The singer not only had to deal with a traumatic funeral – Conor’s maternal grandmother tried to throw herself into the ...

Released on Clapton’s 13th album Pilgrim in 1998, “My Father’s Eyes” was first written while he was living in Antigua and Barbuda. Lyrics weave through questions, confusion, and the void ...

One of rocker Eric Clapton's guitars sold at auction in Nashville, Tennessee, for $1.27 million. See the psychedelic instrument that sent bidders into a frenzy.