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Eric Clapton Biography
By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the
release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long
established as one of the world's major rock stars due to his group
affiliations -- the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and
Blind Faith -- which had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock
guitarist of his generation. That it took Clapton so long to go out on
his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one
of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit
After Midnight, was typical of his self-effacing approach: it was, in
effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney
& Bonnie & Friends.
Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton
had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F
ranks the personnel for a group, Derek & the Dominos, with which he
played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972,
due to heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the
Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album
Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (September 1973). But Clapton did not
launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461
Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the number one
single I Shot the Sheriff.
The persona Clapton established over the next decade was less that of
guitar hero than arena rock star with a weakness for ballads. The
follow-ups to 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One in Every Crowd (March
1975), the live E.C. Was Here (August 1975), and No Reason to Cry
(August 1976), were less successful. But Slowhand (November 1977),
which featured both the powerful Cocaine (written by J.J. Cale, who
had also written After Midnight ) and the hit singles Lay Down Sally
and Wonderful Tonight, was a million-seller. Its follow-ups, Backless
(November 1978), featuring the Top Ten hit Promises, the live Just
One Night (April 1980), and Another Ticket (February 1981), featuring
the Top Ten hit I Can't Stand It, were all big sellers.
Clapton's popularity waned somewhat in the first half of the '80s, as
the albums Money and Cigarettes (February 1983), Behind the Sun (March
1985), and August (November 1986) indicated a certain career stasis.
But he was buoyed up by the release of the box set retrospective
Crossroads (April 1988), which seemed to remind his fans of how great
he was. Journeyman (November 1989) was a return to form. It would be
his last new studio album for nearly five years, though in the interim
he would suffer greatly and enjoy surprising triumph. On March 20,
1991, Clapton's four-year-old son was killed in a fall. While he
mourned, he released a live album, 24 Nights (October 1991), culled
from his annual concert series at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and
prepared a movie soundtrack, Rush (January 1992). The soundtrack
featured a song written for his son, Tears in Heaven, that became a
massive hit single.
In March 1992, Clapton recorded a concert for MTV Unplugged that, when
released on an album in August, became his biggest-selling record ever.
Two years later, Clapton returned with a blues album, From the Cradle,
which became one of his most successful albums, both commercially and
critically. Crossroads, Vol. 2: Live in the Seventies, a box set
chronicling his live work from the '70s, was released to mixed reviews.
In early 1997, Clapton, billing himself by the pseudonym X-Sample,
collaborated with keyboardist/producer Simon Climie as the ambient new
age and trip-hop duo T.D.F. The duo released Retail Therapy to mixed
reviews in early 1997.
Clapton retained Climie as his collaborator for Pilgrim, his first
album of new material since 1989's Journeyman. Pilgrim was greeted with
decidedly mixed reviews upon its spring 1998 release, but the album
debuted at number four and stayed in the Top Ten for several weeks on
the success of the single My Father's Eyes. In 2000, Clapton teamed
up with old friend B.B. King on Riding with the King, a set of blues
standards and material from contemporary singer/songwriters. Another
solo outing, entitled Reptile, followed in early 2001. Three years
later, Clapton issued Me and Mr. Johnson, a collection of tunes
honoring the Mississippi-born bluesman Robert Johnson. 2005's Back
Home, Clapton's 14th album of original material, reflected his ease
with fatherhood. The Road to Escondido from 2006 paired him with the
man behind Cocaine and After Midnight, J.J. Cale. ~ William
Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Written by William Ruhlmann