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The definitive biography of Eric Clapton
Motherless Child is the ultimate celebration and definitive biography of one of the vital influential musicians alive nowadays. From the 1960s graffiti proclaiming “Clapton is God,” to his seminal work in supergroup Cream and his phenomenally successful solo career, Eric Clapton has achieved the status of bona fide living legend and enduring icon. Now in his sixth decade in the music business, he occupies an exulted position at the pinnacle of the rock world thanks to songs like Layla, Tears in Heaven, and Wonderful Tonight, and for lots of is regarded as the greatest guitarist who ever lived. This book will chart his rise to stardom in the 60s and his unparalleled success since walking out of the Yardbirds as a 20-year-old to follow his chosen path of the blues with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and later with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in supergroup Cream, in addition to his successful solo career. Alternatively, his success has come at a price. Once a happy well-adjusted boy, the young Clapton was once devastated by the realization at the age of nine that the woman he thought was once his sister was once in reality his mother, and that the couple he thought were his parents were his maternal grandparents. His remedy by his mother was once also to shape his future turbulent relationships with the women in his life, including his failed first marriage to model Pattie Boyd, who was once married to Clapton’s close friend George Harrison when he fell for her. Motherless Child also chronicles his battles with the demons of drugs and alcohol, his successful journey to sobriety, and examines his legacy as one of the vital influential musicians of his generation. This is very important reading for any Clapton fan.
Motherless Child is the ultimate celebration and definitive biography of one of the vital influential musicians alive nowadays. From the 1960s graffiti proclaiming “Clapton is God,” to his seminal work in supergroup Cream and his phenomenally successful solo career, Eric Clapton has achieved the status of bona fide living legend and enduring icon. Now in his sixth decade in the music business, he occupies an exulted position at the pinnacle of the rock world thanks to songs like Layla, Tears in Heaven, and Wonderful Tonight, and for lots of is regarded as the greatest guitarist who ever lived. This book will chart his rise to stardom in the 60s and his unparalleled success since walking out of the Yardbirds as a 20-year-old to follow his chosen path of the blues with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and later with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in supergroup Cream, in addition to his successful solo career. Alternatively, his success has come at a price. Once a happy well-adjusted boy, the young Clapton was once devastated by the realization at the age of nine that the woman he thought was once his sister was once in reality his mother, and that the couple he thought were his parents were his maternal grandparents. His remedy by his mother was once also to shape his future turbulent relationships with the women in his life, including his failed first marriage to model Pattie Boyd, who was once married to Clapton’s close friend George Harrison when he fell for her. Motherless Child also chronicles his battles with the demons of drugs and alcohol, his successful journey to sobriety, and examines his legacy as one of the vital influential musicians of his generation. This is very important reading for any Clapton fan.
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