Clapton Author:Ray Coleman The first fully authorized in-depth biography of rock's greatest blues guitarist. Clapton! For over twenty years his spectacular career has been a superstar fantasy. He helped create Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends...strutted center stage with the "rave up"...and stole the heart of Pattie Boyd, wife of G... more »eorge Harrison. Even when he wrecked his body with booze and drugs, he never stopped playing -- and his star never dimmed. Now this first, fully authorized biography of Eric Clapton reveals for the first time the secret, behind-closed-doors story of the genius who smacked out of his mind and blew a good seven years of his life. It tells how, by a miracle, he survived and came back, full of fire in his guitar and his raging, but mellow vocals -- living the musical legend he dared to create.
Includes: The truth about his heroin addiction; his stormy marriage with Pattie, the meaning of 461 Ocean Boulevard; his musical debts to Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and B. B. King; never-before-told anecdotes about the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, the Stones, and more; excerpts from Clapton's diary; material based on new interviews with John Hurt, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood, and Phil Collins. The definitive Eric Clapton discography, 1964-1985; the first complete documentation of his recorded work, prepared with the help of Clapton himself.« less