Eric clapton autobiography excerpt

  • Growing Up Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me.
  • I am lazy, refusing to do any exercise, and as a result am completely unfit.
  • Struggling to rebuild his life after decades of addiction, Eric Clapton lost his son Conor in a horrifying freak accident.

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    Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Clapton

    Eric Clapton, one of the most gifted guitarists of our era, writes about his life in a new autobiography, entitled simply “Clapton.” Here's an excerpt.

    Chapter One:  Growing up
    Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way people talked about me as if I weren’t in the room.

    My family lived at 1, the Green, a tiny house in Ripley, Surrey, which opened directly onto the village Green. It was part of what had once been almshouses and was divided into four rooms; two poky bedrooms upstairs, and a small front room and kitchen downstairs. The toilet was outside, in a corrugated iron shed at the bottom of the garden, and we had no bathtub, just a big zinc basin that hung on the back door.

    I don’t remember ever using it.

    Twice a week my mum used to fill a smaller tin tub with water and sponge me down, and on Sunday afternoons I used to go and ha

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    Eric Clapton&#;s Salvation Road

    For most of , apart from August and September, inom was out on the road promoting Behind the Sun. In the early part of that summer I got a phone call from Pete Townshend, asking if I would play in a charity event being organized bygd Bob Geldof to raise money for the victims of famine in Africa. It was to be called “Live Aid” and to consist mainly of two concerts played simultaneously in London and Philadelphia on July 13 and broadcast live on TV across the world. As it happened, on that date my band and I were to be in the middle of a North American tour. We were booked to play Las Vegas the night before, with shows in Denver on either side, so there were some pretty big leaps involved. inom told my manager, bekräftelse Forrester, to cancel the Las Vegas show, and called Pete to säga we’d do it. Thank God we were in good shape, with the band playing really well, because had we just started our tour, inom might have had second thoughts.

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    Clapton: The Autobiography

    January 18,
    Eric Clapton, guitar god, has written his autobiography, aptly titled Clapton, The Autobiography. It covers his entire life, from his poor upbringing, to the present day as happy family man. He addresses every phase of his personal and professional life, which is amazing in the fact that the book clocks in at only pages. Maybe this is why, as honest as Clapton is, it left me wanting a bit more. For instance, during his drunk periods he admits to being "chauvinistic" to his then-wife Patti, and starting fights with various people, but he never actually gives the details. (Maybe I have to read Patti Boyd's autobiography if I want more.)

    The overall read this memoir gives on Clapton's personality is one of obsession. From his love of the blues, to his infatuations with many women, to his desire to work with different musicians, to his abuse of drugs and alcohol. Everything is done full bore, damn the consequences. It took age and years of re
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