what beatles song did eric clapton play guitar on
George Harrison


, as "exquisite", declaring them equal to any previous Beatles songs. From 1968 onwards, Harrison collaborated with other musicians; he brought in Eric Clapton to play lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the 1968 Beatles' White Album, and collaborated with John Barham on his 1968 debut solo album, "Wonderwall Music", which included contributions from Clapton again, as well as Peter Tork from the Monkees. He played on tracks by Dave Mason, Nicky Hopkins, Alvin Lee, Ronnie Wood,
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The Beatles (album)


, on 25 July – a version that remained unreleased until "Anthology 3". He was unhappy with the group's first attempt to record the track, and so invited his friend Eric Clapton to come and play on it. Clapton was unsure about guesting on a Beatles record, but Harrison said the decision was "nothing to do with them. It's my song." Clapton's solo was treated with automatic double tracking to attain the desired effect; he gave Harrison the guitar he used, which Harrison later named
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Delaney Bramlett


1960s, British guitarist Eric Clapton joined Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on tour, after which Bramlett produced and co-wrote songs for Clapton's debut solo album, "Eric Clapton". Clapton has credited Bramlett for pushing him to sing and teaching him the art of rock vocals. Bramlett produced King Curtis's last album, which produced two hit singles, "Teasin'" and "Lonesome Long Way from Home". Bramlett taught George Harrison, who was then with the Beatles, to play slide guitar, which resulted
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Eric Clapton


Clapton profoundly. Cream's farewell album, "Goodbye", comprising live performances recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, 1968, was released shortly after Cream disbanded; it also spawned the studio single "Badge", co-written by Clapton and George Harrison. Clapton met Harrison and became close friends with him after the Beatles shared a bill with the Clapton-era Yardbirds at the London Palladium. Clapton played the lead guitar solo on Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the Beatles' "White Album
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What Is Life


single there of 1971. Harrison's backing musicians on the song include Eric Clapton and the entire Delaney & Bonnie and Friends band, with whom he had toured during the final months of the Beatles. Harrison co-produced the recording with Phil Spector, whose Wall of Sound production also employed a prominent string arrangement by John Barham and multiple acoustic rhythm guitars, played by Harrison's fellow Apple Records signings Badfinger. An uptempo composition in the soul genre, "What Is Life" is one of several Harrison love songs that appear
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Savoy Truffle


"Savoy Truffle" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1968 album "The Beatles" (also known as "the White Album"). The song was written by George Harrison and inspired by his friend Eric Clapton's fondness for chocolate. The lyrics list the various flavours offered in Mackintosh's Good News chocolates and serve as a warning to Clapton about the detrimental effect that his gorging would have on his teeth. Along with Clapton's guest appearance on the White Album track "While My Guitar
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Sour Milk Sea


room watching me". In addition to supplying acoustic rhythm guitar on the song, Harrison played an electric guitar solo, which appears shortly after the two-minute mark on the recording,Damian Fanelli, "Take a Dip in the 'Sour Milk Sea,' a 1968 Track Featuring Three Beatles and Eric Clapton", guitarworld.com, 10 May 2014 (retrieved 2 June 2016). following Clapton's lead guitar break. Hammond organ was also added over this instrumental passage, although the part is uncredited. Recording was completed
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Here Comes the Sun


"Here Comes the Sun" is a song written by George Harrison that was first released on the Beatles' 1969 album "Abbey Road". Along with "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", it is one of Harrison's best-known compositions from the Beatles era. The song was written at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day, to avoid attending a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation. The lyrics reflect the composer
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Never Without You


interview, Starr said that he had remained closest to Harrison of all the former Beatles following the group's break-up in 1970, and that the song conveyed "how I miss him in my heart and in music". The recording includes a lead guitar part by Harrison's friend Eric Clapton. Starr said of Clapton's contribution: "Eric's on two tracks on the album ["Ringo Rama"], but I really wanted him on this song because George loved Eric and Eric loved George." The
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Let It Be (1970 film)


idea that particularly appealed to Lennon, who was captured on tape saying that if: "George doesn't come back by Monday or Tuesday, we ask Eric Clapton to play”, and that this would be congenial to Clapton in that the Beatles, unlike Clapton's previous band Cream, “would give him full scope to play his guitar.” Years later, Clapton commented on the absurdity of this idea: “There may have been [a suggestion that I would be asked to join the Beatles in January 1969]
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Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster


The Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster is the signature model electric guitar of English guitarist Eric Clapton. It was the first signature model guitar released by Fender. Eric Clapton played a range of different Fender and Gibson models while playing in The Yardbirds and Cream. In 1970, for his landmark "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" with Derek and the Dominos, Clapton started using a sunburst 1956 Stratocaster which he later nicknamed "Brownie" that he had bought in May 1967 while in Cream. While on tour with the Dominos, Clapton
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Hey Jude


the Beatles. In 1968, R&B singer Wilson Pickett released a cover recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, with a guitar part played a young Duane Allman, who recommended the song to Pickett. Eric Clapton commented, "I remember hearing [it] and calling either Ahmet Ertegun or Tom Dowd and saying, 'Who's that guitar player?' ... To this day, I've never heard better rock guitar playing on an R&B record. It's the best." Session musician Jimmy Johnson, who played on the
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Devil's Radio


of "Devil's Radio" to songs of Chuck Berry and particularly praised Harrison's vocal and the counterpoint provided by Eric Clapton, who played guitar on the song along with Harrison. The other musicians who performed on the song were Elton John on piano, Jeff Lynne on bass guitar and keyboards, Ringo Starr on drums and Ray Cooper on percussion. Several commentators have noted resemblances between "Devil's Radio" and songs written by others. Beatles' author Andrew Grant Jackson points out a similarity in theme and tone with Don
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Layla


won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. In 1966, Beatles guitarist George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met during the filming of "A Hard Day's Night". During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited guitar work on Harrison's song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Beatles' "White Album", and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar pseudonymously (as L'Angelo Misterioso) on Cream's "Badge" from ""Goodbye""
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Tak Matsumoto


Matsumoto was inspired to pick a guitar at an age of 13 when for the first time listened to Eric Clapton's playing on The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Reportedly he bought his first electric guitar at age of 15, a Japanese Gibson Les Paul after hearing Deep Purple's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore play "Smoke on the Water on live album "Made in Japan". Matsumoto has said over the years that he has many favorite artists, from whom he has drawn much inspiration, from hard rock particularly
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Eric Clapton


, Clapton was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday. Clapton's choice of electric guitars has been as notable as the man himself; like Hank Marvin, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Clapton exerted a crucial and widespread influence in popularising particular models of electric guitar
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I'd Have You Anytime


released recording of "I'd Have You Anytime" features a sparse musical arrangement, in what Leng terms the "minimalist" tradition of Dylan and the Band, similar to the treatment given to "Behind That Locked Door", "Run of the Mill" and "If Not for You". Harrison played acoustic guitar on the song, while Eric Clapton contributed an electric guitar part that author Bruce Spizer describes as "exquisite". Leng views Clapton's solos as "all but mimicking" Harrison's playing on the
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Bad Love (Eric Clapton song)


track of a compilation album. The original recording features Eric Clapton playing electric guitar and singing lead vocals alongside Phil Collins' drumming and harmony background singing. Alan Clark acts as the keyboardist on the release, which includes Pino Palladino on bass guitar. The publishing rights to both the song and release belong to Unichappell Music, Incorporated. While promoting his new studio album during his two-year "Journeyman World Tour" in 1990 and 1991, Eric Clapton performed the song with a different band line-up including Nathan East on
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George Harrison


McCartney's "Lady Madonna", it was the first Harrison composition to appear on a Beatles single. Derived from a quotation from the "Tao Te Ching", the song's lyric reflected Harrison's deepening interest in Hinduism and meditation. During the recording of "The Beatles" that same year, tensions within the group ran high, and drummer Ringo Starr quit briefly. Harrison's four songwriting contributions to the double album included "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and the
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Eric Clapton


"What I appreciated about the Band was that they were more concerned with songs and singing. They would have three- and four-part harmonies, and the guitar was put back into perspective as being accompaniment. That suited me well, because I had gotten so tired of the virtuosity—or "pseudo"-virtuosity—thing of long, boring guitar solos just because they were expected. The Band brought things back into perspective. The priority was the song." The band was originally called "Eric Clapton and Friends". The
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Steppin' Out (Eric Clapton album)


Steppin' Out is a compilation album of songs featuring Eric Clapton, released in 1981. It contains eight of the 12 tracks that appeared originally on John Mayall's "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton" in 1966, plus a Mayall/Clapton single, "Lonely Years," two tracks ("Third Degree" and "Calcutta Blues") from a 1966 recording session by Champion Jack Dupree on which Clapton played guitar, and "Pretty Girls Everywhere", which is from an Otis Spann session, also featuring Clapton.
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Ed Sheeran


small club in Ireland, I was able to meet him, and he was unbelievably cool. I went straight home and started writing songs. I would not be doing what I'm doing now if he'd been a jerk." He also played the guitar to Westlife's Greatest hits album when he was ten, citing them as one of his influences. Sheeran collaborated with his idol Eric Clapton in April 2016, with Sheeran stating to "People" magazine, "I sang on Eric Clapton's album ["I
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Plastic Ono Band


. Lennon offered instead to perform at the festival. Brower agreed, and Lennon quickly assembled a band. He initially approached Beatles bandmate George Harrison to play lead guitar, but Harrison turned him down. Eric Clapton (who had played guitar in Lennon's earlier live group, the Dirty Mac) was chosen instead. Bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White filled out the first performing lineup of the Plastic Ono Band. While organizing the band, Lennon privately decided to leave the Beatles, due to the tensions in the band at
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Talk to Me (Babyface song)


Talk to Me is a song written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. The track features Eric Clapton on guitar and was released in 1996 on the album "The Day". A live performance featuring Clapton on was released in 1997 on the album "MTV Unplugged NYC 1997". Just before performing the song with Clapton for the MTV Unplugged session, Edmonds explained how the song came about: "This is a song that I was working on when we worked together on "Change the World". He started playing guitar
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Abbey Road


final mixing and editing for the track occurred on 20 August 1969, the last day all four Beatles were together in the studio. "Here Comes the Sun" was written by Harrison in Eric Clapton's garden in Surrey while Harrison took a break from stressful band business meetings. The basic track was recorded on 7 July 1969. Harrison sang lead and played acoustic guitar, McCartney provided backing vocals and played bass and Starr played the drums. Lennon was still recuperating from his car accident and did not perform on the track.
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Bad Love (Eric Clapton song)


in a , was later resized to a wider format to get a more high-definition picture for its re-release on DVD format. The music video was shot in a black and white picture and features Eric Clapton playing and singing the song alongside Nathan East on bass guitar and vocals, Greg Phillinganes on keyboards and vocals as well as Phil Collins, who is on drums and also sings backing vocals. The quartett is shown performing the title on stage while Eric Clapton rehearsed for his, then, upcoming "Journeyman World
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Eric Clapton


the Concert for George. In January 1969, when the Beatles were recording/filming what became "Let It Be", tensions became so acute that Harrison quit the group for several days, prompting the others to consider replacing him with Clapton, an idea that particularly appealed to John Lennon. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, television director of the recording sessions for "Let It Be", states, "I was there when John mentioned Clapton — but that wasn't going to happen. Would Eric have become a Beatle?
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Eric Clapton


DVD captured a show full of celebrities performing classic Dylan songs, with Clapton playing the lead on a nearly 7-minute version of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" as part of the finale. While Clapton played acoustic guitar on "Unplugged", his 1994 album "From the Cradle" contained new versions of old blues standards, highlighted by his electric guitar playing. In 1995, Clapton for the first and only time appeared on a UK No. 1 single, collaborating with Chrissie Hynde, Cher and Neneh Cherry
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Runaway Train (Elton John and Eric Clapton song)


Taupin. For the recording of his instrumental part, John used the Roland RD-1000 digital piano. Eric Clapton sings a duet with John for this track. Clapton takes the main singing part and improvised a couple guitar solos while recording. The song is in the key of G minor. For the studio recordings, Clapton used a capo on the third guitar fret, but never used it for live performances when John and Clapton went on tour in 1992. The song was released in July 1992 as the third single of Elton John
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I Wish It Would Rain Down


that it was as close as he had ever gotten at the time to writing a blues song. This is one of Collins' most emotional songs, and has a demanding vocal performance. Collins' vocals span from E♭3 - C5. Eric Clapton plays lead guitar throughout the song, which also features a large gospel choir. Regarding Clapton's contribution, Collins recalls, "I said 'Eric, have I never asked you to play? Come on, I've got a song right up your street.'
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Eric Clapton World Tour (2019)


in the 2000s. During his stint at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Clapton used a Pewter grey Fender Eric Clapton Stratocater. For his unplugged set, Clapton continued to use his signature model OOO-28EC acoustic guitar from Martin Guitars, he played on stage since 2015. However, Where's Eric! noted, that Clapton now uses a small DPA microphone mounted to the pick guard of his close to the bridge of his guitar. For his London shows at the Royal Albert Hall, Clapton was spotted using a Fender '57
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Anyday (song)


"Anyday" is a song written by the British rock guitarist and singer Eric Clapton and American singer-songwriter Bobby Whitlock for the Derek and the Dominos album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" which was released in 1970. Over the years, the tune was newly interpreted by both Clapton and Whitlock who also released their takes on the song on both studio and live albums in 2003 and 2016. The song features double guitar parts played by both Clapton and Duane Allman. Clapton specifically asked Allman to sit in for the
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Dominic Lewis


played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. While at the Royal Academy of Music, he received mentorship from Rupert Gregson-Williams. In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los
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Pedro Javier González


Gonzalez played electric and Spanish guitars and accompanied the group on tour. The group was the top-selling act in Spain. "Astronomía razonable" sold 600,000 copies during its 64-week chart run, and "La rebelión de los hombres rana" sold 228,000 copies. During the second half of the 1990s, Gonzalez released three albums featured cover versions of songs by the Eagles, John Lennon, Dire Straits, Supertramp, Simon and Garfunkel, and Eric Clapton., the Police, Bob Dylan, Queen, the Beatles and others
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Ana Free


her as a child. She says she grew up listening to artists such as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Santana, Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell and Sheryl Crow. She learned to play a lot of blues songs on guitar, which she practised with her father. She says that as a teenager she used to borrow her brother's records and listened to artists like Bryan Adams, Guns'N'Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and 4 Non Blondes. She was also a fan of mainstream pop acts like
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Pages of Life


edge of rock guitar and applies it to the most traditional sounding country there is."" Hillman, within the press release, stated ""Story of Love" is your basic 2/4 bluegrass. But then you take a song like "In Another Lifetime" and you've got John Jorgenson playing guitar like Eric Clapton."" The release continued ""If it sounds incongruous, remember that country music has always been the white man's blues and that songs of real life are what sets country apart. Certainly if
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Dhani Harrison


", at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards in 2004. Harrison participated in the "Concert for George" on the first anniversary of his father's death. The concert was organized by Eric Clapton and featured some of his father's friends and collaborators, including former Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as well as Clapton, Billy Preston, Ravi Shankar, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Jim Keltner, and Joe Brown. Harrison played backup acoustic guitar for most of the concert. Before the finale, McCartney relayed to the
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Corey Hart (singer)


only after garnering US success in the summer of 1984 that he became well-known in his native Canada. "First Offense" also featured guitarist Eric Clapton on the record's closing track, "Jenny Fey". Jon (Astley, producer) felt there was one song Eric Clapton would really like. So just out of the blue he sent him the song, and lo and behold Eric Clapton was on the phone saying he wanted to play on it and asking how I would mind if he did. I did
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Savoy Truffle


the same pair of tracks as "two of Harrison's finest moments ('While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' with Eric Clapton wailing on lead guitar, and the surrealistic soul of 'Savoy Truffle')". In 2015, "Savoy Truffle" was ranked 66th in the "NME"s list "100 Greatest Beatles Songs As Chosen By Music's A-Listers". Staff writer Leonie Cooper admired its subject matter and described the track as a "typically off-kilter" Harrison composition. In Consequence of Sound's
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Pilgrim (Eric Clapton song)


The song is written and recorded in the keys A minor and C major. In 1998, Clapton talked about the composition and writing process on "Pilgrim" a song like "Inside of Me" that was deliberately borrowed from Curtis Mayfield as a way for Clapton to say thanks for the inspiration: "I was playing guitar and Simon [Climie] was playing keyboards and we just created an atmosphere and instantly the words were coming into my head because the mood evoked all of the circumstances that had been happening for the past
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Eric Clapton


/songwriter Roger Waters at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, in support of the Countryside Alliance, which promotes issues relating to the British countryside. On 2006, Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in Columbus, Ohio, playing guitar on three songs in Jimmie Vaughan's opening act. The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite the Derek Trucks Band to open for Clapton's set at his 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Trucks remained on set afterward and performed with Clapton's band throughout his performances. The rights
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Dear Mr. Fantasy


"Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, "Mr. Fantasy". An extended live version (10:57) of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album "Welcome to the Canteen". The lyrics were written by Jim Capaldi, while the music was written by Steve Winwood and Chris Wood. Steve Winwood played the song at Eric Clapton's 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival and the song appears on the festival DVD. The song was included on the setlist of Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton
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Brownie (guitar)


it for both concert and studio. The guitar appeared on his debut album "Eric Clapton" where it can be seen on the cover. Its most noteworthy usage can be heard on the "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album" also recorded in 1970. But after 1971, Brownie served as back-up for Clapton's main Fender Stratocaster, Blackie. At the 1969 Blind Faith concert in Hyde Park, London, Clapton played a Fender Custom Telecaster, which was fitted with Brownie's neck. Clapton preferred to buy
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Fifth Beatle


McCartney. To distinguish Preston from the controversy over who is the Fifth Beatle, he is sometimes given the unique title of the "Black Beatle". Originally "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" had only the first guitar solo in the song off the album. Harrison thought that it sounded weak, and called in Clapton to perform the lead guitar on the song. It was decided to cut one verse entirely and add another guitar solo towards the end of the song. When Harrison briefly left the band in January 1969,
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Eric Clapton World Tour (2019)


played in an acoustic/unplugged arrangement. For his 2019 Tokyo residency at the Nippon Budokan, Clapton debuted a new color for his Fender signature model Eric Clapton Stratocaster electric guitar. The color, which is called "Almond Green", was frequently used by British car manufacturer Aston Martin throughout the 2000s and 2010s. The Eric Clapton fan club magazine Where's Eric! noted, that the guitar has model "a much lighter hue than his Strats finished with Porsche and Mercedes car colors". Clapton owned an Aston Martin automobile
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Eric Clapton


, "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven ... it was like seeing an instrument from outer space and I said to myself: 'That's the future – that's what I want. In the 2017 documentary film, "Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars", Clapton cites Bismillah Khan as an influence: “I wanted my guitar to sound like his reed instrument.” In the same documentary he also cited harmonica player Little Walter as an influence: “The sound he made with the harmonica playing
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It's Nobody's Fault but Mine


In performing the song, Johnson alternated between vocal and solo slide-guitar melody lines on the first and second or sometimes third and fourth strings. Eric Clapton commented: "That's probably the finest slide guitar playing you'll ever hear. And to think that he did it with a penknife, as well." Johnson's guitar is tuned to an open D chord with a capo on the first fret and he provides an alternating bass figure with his thumb. "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" was one
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Change the World


chart, and peaked at number nine on the most played videos of MTV compilation as reported by "Billboard". Although "Change the World" is best known by Eric Clapton's unplugged acoustic version, an electric performance of the song was featured on Babyface's 1997 live album, "MTV Unplugged NYC 1997", released on November 25 the same year, with Clapton on co-lead vocals and electric guitar. Babyface also served as the song's producer for the electric guitar take. This interpretation of the hit song
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Old Brown Shoe


"Old Brown Shoe" among Harrison's "10 Greatest Beatles Songs", describing it as "An infectious, lively track that tumbles out of the gate (check out Ringo's raucous drumming) and gallops off." He also highlights Harrison's "blazing guitar solo" and says that, with his guitar, bass and organ contributions, the recording is "practically all-George". Harrison performed "Old Brown Shoe" throughout his 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton, Harrison's only tour as a solo artist
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Blackie (guitar)


Blackie is the nickname given by Eric Clapton to his favorite Fender Stratocaster. In 1970, Clapton switched from Gibson guitars to Fender Stratocasters, largely due to the influences of Jimi Hendrix and Blind Faith bandmate Steve Winwood. His first Strat, nicknamed "Brownie" because of its sunburst brown finish, was used on his albums "Eric Clapton" and "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". The same year, Clapton found the Sho-Bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee. He bought six 1950s Stratocasters for two or
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Eric Clapton


fourth studio album, "Happy Xmas", which consists of blues-tinged interpretations of Christmas songs, with the album released on 12 October. On 25 June 2019, "The New York Times Magazine" listed Eric Clapton among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Clapton cites Muddy Waters, Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Hubert Sumlin as guitar playing influences. Clapton has said that blues musician Robert Johnson is his single most important influence. In 2004
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Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)


did you get that?" Clapton played Martin 000-42 acoustic guitars for much of the performance, and in 2004, one of the guitars sold for $791,500 (£434,400) in auction. The album was released on 25 August 1992 to some of the best reviews of his career. The album renewed the public's interest in Clapton, and boosted his popularity. Critical reception has been mixed though muted; in general, reviewers report that the album, if unremarkable, is "relaxed" and "pleasant"
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Savoy Truffle


was one of disharmony within the band, following their mixed experiences while attending an advanced course in Transcendental Meditation in India early in the year, a group activity that had been led by Harrison's commitment to Eastern spirituality. Away from his work with the Beatles in 1968, Harrison increasingly spent time with Eric Clapton, leading to occasional musical collaborations between the two guitarists and a lifelong friendship. Having contributed to Harrison's solo album "Wonderwall Music", Clapton was invited to play on his White Album track "While My Guitar
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Isn't It a Pity


-produced by Phil Spector, the recording employs multiple keyboard players, rhythm guitarists and percussionists, as well as orchestration by arranger John Barham. In its extended fadeout, the song references the closing refrain of the Beatles' 1968 hit "Hey Jude". Other musicians on the recording include Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Gary Wright and the band Badfinger, while the reprise version features Eric Clapton on lead guitar. The song appeared as the closing track on Harrison's career-spanning compilation "" (2009), and
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Pure Smokey (song)


other Beatles biographers, "Pure Smokey" is viewed as superior to Harrison's previous Robinson tribute. Simon Leng considers "Pure Smokey" to be both "the most successful, and succinct, summation of his attachments to the [soul] genre" and "one of its author's most appealing songs". Leng praises Harrison's guitar solos for their understated, melodic approach – in which he detects "a nod to Eric Clapton, but with added Carl Perkins twang" – and concludes: "A fact often overlooked
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Murray Cook


playing because of [The] Wiggles". "Guitar Magazine" speculated that since Cook was one of the first guitarists children were exposed to, he might be the most influential guitarist in the world. Cook's major musical influences were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Eric Clapton. In 2007, Cook owned a collection of thirty vintage guitars. As a member of the Wiggles, Cook wore a red skivvy and served as an instrumentalist and vocalist. He came up with The Wiggles' signature index
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Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album)


Behind the Sun is the ninth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released by Duck Records / Warner Bros.. It is Clapton's first collaborative project with Phil Collins who co-produces and plays on some of the tracks. While recording the album Clapton temporarily split with his wife. The title of the album comes from a line from Muddy Waters's "Louisiana Blues". After nearly a decade of Clapton's guitar playing taking a back seat to his singing/songwriting, this album contains several guitar solos. The album
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Lucy (guitar)


I had it done at the factory in the SG-style clear red finish that was popular at the time." However, Derringer wasn't happy with the guitar after the refinish; he sold it to Dan Armstrong's guitar shop in New York. The guitar had only been in Armstrong's shop for a few days when it was purchased by Eric Clapton. Clapton did not play this instrument much, his principal guitars in 1966–68 being his psychedelic 1964 SG called "The Fool", a 1964 ES-335, a 1963
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On Tour with Eric Clapton


on this album would later go on to work with George Harrison on his post-Beatles debut album "All Things Must Pass" and with Clapton on his solo debut. The horn players Bobby Keys and Jim Price would play on the albums "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main St." by the Rolling Stones, and join them for their 1972 STP Tour. Whitlock, Radle, and Gordon would form with Clapton his band Derek and the Dominos for "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". As no pictures
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Live Peace in Toronto 1969


Chicago, and The Doors. On 12 September, Brower contacted Lennon to see if he would be willing to be the master of ceremonies. Lennon offered instead to perform at the festival, bringing his own band, the Plastic Ono Band." Brower agreed, and Lennon quickly assembled a band. He initially approached Beatles band-mate George Harrison to play lead guitar, but Harrison turned him down, so Eric Clapton (who had played guitar in Lennon's earlier live group, the Dirty Mac) was chosen instead.
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Live from Madison Square Garden (Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood album)


was also a member). During Clapton's 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Clapton and Winwood played six songs together including a few Blind Faith songs. After that successful experience, the two decided to collaborate again. The 2008 Madison Square Garden shows were the first full Winwood-Clapton concerts in almost 40 years. The night before Buddy Miles died, a friend called him on his cell phone so he could hear Winwood and Clapton perform his best known song "Them Changes". When they found out the next day that Miles
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Something (Beatles song)


29 November 2002, he and Eric Clapton performed a version that begins with McCartney alone, on ukulele, and then reverts to the familiar, rock arrangement, with Clapton taking over as lead singer and backing from Starr, Preston and others. Following its appearance in David Leland's film "Concert for George" (2003) and on the accompanying live album, this performance of "Something" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Bob Dylan also played the song live during his November 2002 concerts
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)


, only three days after it had been released on record, with McCartney and Harrison in the audience. Another live version by Hendrix recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival was included on a posthumous live album, "". "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was never performed live by the Beatles. It was performed by three of the former band members (McCartney, Harrison and Starr) plus Eric Clapton on 19 May 1979, at Clapton's wedding party. Paul McCartney played the song live on the
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Davy Knowles


became interested in music when he heard Dire Straits's "Sultans of Swing" during a car ride with his father. Promptly, he took his father's guitar and learned how to play the song by ear. As Knowles grew older, he was influenced by other artists like Dire Straits that he found in his father's music collection such as Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, and Robert Johnson. As a child, Knowles briefly took guitar lessons, but did not prefer the traditional way of learning how to play. After
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White Room


the initial session for Cream's third album (then still unnamed), recording for "White Room" reportedly began in London. In December, work continued at Atlantic Studios in New York City and was completed during three sessions in February, April and June 1968, also at Atlantic. Jack Bruce sang and played bass on the song, Eric Clapton overdubbed guitar parts, Ginger Baker played drums and timpani, and Felix Pappalardi – the group's producer – contributed violas. Clapton played his guitar through a wah-wah pedal
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London Hyde Park 1969


Baker and Eric Clapton, and videos of the band members performing in some of their former groups, namely the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Family and Cream. In a review for AllMusic, Bret Adams described "London Hyde Park 1969" as an "excellent" recording of the concert. He found Clapton's electric guitar on "Can't Find My Way Home" "fascinating" because he played acoustic guitar on that song on "Blind Faith". He was also impressed with Winwood's keyboard playing on "Do
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Humpy Bong


us by double-tracking, but we can't appear on stage. Live radio shows are also a problem..." For a second "Top of the Pops" appearance, the band played a song called "Don't You Believe It". This was actually a Jonathan Kelly solo single released shortly before Humpy Bong got together. The single had featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar – but Clapton was unavailable for the "Top of the Pops" appearance so Staffell played the lead guitar parts. Remembers Staffell: "I
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Eric Clapton


the Beatles' recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Lucy was stolen from Harrison, though later tracked down and returned to him - he lent it to Clapton for his 1973 comeback concert at the Rainbow. His SG "The Fool" found its way into the hands of George Harrison's friend Jackie Lomax, who subsequently sold it to musician Todd Rundgren for US$500 in 1972. Rundgren restored the guitar and nicknamed it "Sunny", after "Sunshine of Your Love". He retained it until 2000
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Gary Clark Jr.


song. Clark performed at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival as part of the promotion for John Sayles' 2007 film, "Honeydripper". Clark performed at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival alongside B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Steve Winwood, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Jeff Beck, and ZZ Top. He joined Doyle Bramhall II and Sheryl Crow on stage for their performance with Eric Clapton, and also debuted several original songs. In June 2011, Clark played at the annual Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee
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Easy Now (Eric Clapton song)


"Easy Now" is a pop rock song, written by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. He wrote and recorded the track for his 1970 studio album "Eric Clapton" for Polydor Records. The song was also released as the B-side to the singles "After Midnight" in 1970 and "Let It Rain" in 1972. The composition is also featured on the 1972 compilation album "Eric Clapton at His Best". The recording was produced by Delaney Bramlett. The song is played by Clapton on a
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Pretending (Eric Clapton song)


on the Dutch Tip 40 and #24 on the Dutch Top 40. It became a live favorite. The song begins with a piano introduction. Clapton uses a wah wah pedal on the song. Author Marc Roberty describes the wah-wah solos as being "superlative." Roberty criticizes Steve Ferrone's drumming on the song for being too heavy handed. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald praises the song's "great guitar hook" and Clapton's "great vocal and guitar performances" on the song. However, Greenwald believes that
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Paul McCartney


his death, McCartney played Harrison's "Something" on a ukulele at the Concert for George. He also performed "For You Blue" and "All Things Must Pass", and played the piano on Eric Clapton's rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". During a recording session for "The Beatles" in 1968, the two got into an argument over McCartney's critique of Starr's drum part for "Back in the U.S.S.R.", which contributed to Starr temporarily leaving the band. Starr later commented
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Eric Clapton


" (1968). Harrison's debut solo album, "Wonderwall Music", in 1968, became the first of many Harrison solo records to include Clapton on guitar. Clapton would go largely uncredited for his contributions to Harrison's albums due to contractual restraints, and Harrison was credited as "L'Angelo Misterioso" for his contributions to the song "Badge" on "Goodbye". The pair would often play live together as each other's guest. A year after Harrison's death in 2001, Clapton was musical director for
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps


. Nobody ever plays on Beatles records." Harrison convinced him, and Clapton's lead guitar part, played on Harrison's Gibson Les Paul electric guitar "Lucy" (a recent gift from Clapton), was overdubbed that evening. Recalling the session in his 2007 autobiography, Clapton says that, while Lennon and McCartney were "fairly non-committal", he thought the track "sounded fantastic", adding: "I knew George was happy, because he listened to it over and over in the control room.
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George Harrison


Billy Preston and Tom Scott. Harrison co-wrote songs and music with Dylan, Clapton, Preston, Doris Troy, David Bromberg, Gary Wright, Wood, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, among others. Harrison's music projects during the final years of the Beatles included producing Apple Records artists Doris Troy, Jackie Lomax and Billy Preston. Harrison co-wrote the song "Badge" with Clapton, which was included on Cream's 1969 album, "Goodbye". Harrison played rhythm guitar on the track, using the
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Glen Campbell


Tucker wrote and released a song in his honor, "Forever Loving You." Jimmy Webb, who wrote many of Campbell's hits and worked with him throughout his life, said that Campbell could play with "any guitar player in the world, from George Benson to Eric Clapton," adding that Paul McCartney considered him among the best guitar players. "People will realize what an extraordinary genius Glen really was," Webb told ABC News. The Country Music Television Channel (CMT) aired a special about his career
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Buddy Whittington


Buddy Whittington, born on December 28, 1956, in Fort Worth, Texas, is an American guitarist. He began playing the guitar inspired by his sister's records of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. At the age of 14 he was already a part of the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene and playing regularly in the clubs along Jacksboro Highway. While attending L.D. Bell High School, Whittington played in a band called Short Change, which opened for Point Blank, a
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Chuck Loeb


Charles Samuel "Chuck" Loeb (December 7, 1955 – July 31, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist and a member of the groups Steps Ahead and Fourplay. Loeb was born in Nyack, New York, near New York City. At a young age, he listened to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan. According to a 2005 "JazzTimes" article, the first song he learned on guitar was Dylan's "Like a Rolling
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Isn't It a Pity


the better known, seven-minute "epic" reading of the song. Eric Clapton's lead guitar fills, phased piano from Tony Ashton, and John Barham-arranged woodwinds dominate Version Two, which is also more in keeping with the Beatles' earlier attempts on the track; as with "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp", it features extensive use of the Leslie speaker sound so familiar from the band's "Abbey Road" album. Like the concurrently recorded "My Sweet Lord", the album's other "
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Buddy Holly


"The Day the Music Died". During his short career, Holly wrote and recorded songs. He is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. He was a major influence on later popular music artists, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and Elton John. He was among the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986. "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked him
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Eric Clapton


. Steve Winwood had so much credibility, and when he started playing one, I thought, oh, if he can do it, I can do it". The first—used during the recording of "Eric Clapton"—was "Brownie", which in 1973 became the backup to the most famous of all Clapton's guitars, "Blackie". In November 1970 Eric bought six Fender Stratocasters from the Sho-bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee while on tour with the Dominos. He gave one each to George Harrison
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps


the song received praise from several music critics, and it has since been recognised as an example of Harrison's continuing maturation as a songwriter beside his Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. "Rolling Stone" ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 136th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", seventh on the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time", and at number 10 on its list of "The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs". Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in "
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Big Bill Broonzy


" Eric Clapton has cited Broonzy as a major inspiration, commenting that Broonzy "became like a role model for me, in terms of how to play the acoustic guitar." Clapton featured Broonzy's song "Hey Hey" on his album "Unplugged". The Derek and the Dominos album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" includes their recording of "Key to the Highway". Another musician heavily influenced by Broonzy was Jerry Garcia, who upon hearing a recording of Broonzy's blues playing decided to exchange an accordion
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Tell the Truth (song)


Whitlock: Where There's a Will There's a Way. The ABC Dunhill Recordings". Musicians on that recording included all the Dominos, plus George Harrison, Jim Price, Bobby Keys and Rick Vito. "Tell the Truth" has been frequently played at Eric Clapton's subsequent concerts. Live versions of the song have been included on several of Clapton's albums as well including the deluxe release of "461 Ocean Boulevard", "Crossroads Guitar Festival" and "Live From Madison Square Garden". The song has
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Bad Love (Eric Clapton song)


bass guitar, Greg Phillinganes on keyboards, Chuck Leavell on the Hammond organ, Steve Ferrone on drums, Ray Cooper on percussion, Phil Palmer on rhythm guitar as well as Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon on backing vocals. Eric Clapton released a live interpretation of "Bad Love" on his album "24 Nights" with the band line-up mentioned above, released on October 8, 1991. The British rock musician also released the track on various compilation albums including "" (1999), "Complete Clapton" (
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Sour Milk Sea


-related business trip to California. While Apple projects typically featured one member of the Beatles, "Sour Milk Sea" is the only track where more than two members of the band appeared on another artist's recording. Clapton's electric guitar playing gave the song a riff-based quality that was absent from the Beatles' version. Lomax later said that he thought the track "worked as an instrumental", and he recalled his nervousness when it came to overdubbing the vocal part, with "three Beatles in the control
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Is This What You Want?


a producer, supported by longtime Beatles associate Mal Evans. Lomax also worked closely with Barham on the song's descending brass parts. The backing musicians were previously listed as Clapton, Starr and Billy Preston, but author John Winn states that this is incorrect, given the playing styles heard on the recording and Lomax's subsequent comments. Winn credits Harrison for one of the guitar parts, while Lomax stated that he was also accompanied by his live band at the time: Tim Renwick, Chris Hatfield, Billy Kinsley and Pete Clark
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All Things Must Pass


, following his renewed interest in the guitar, after three years spent studying the Indian sitar. As well as being one of the few musicians to co-write songs with Dylan, Harrison had recently collaborated with Eric Clapton on "Badge", which became a hit single for Cream in the spring of 1969. Once back in London, and with his compositions continually overlooked for inclusion on releases by the Beatles, Harrison found creative fulfilment in extracurricular projects that, in the words of his musical biographer, Simon Leng, served
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Jean-Patrick Capdevielle


camper van. He also lived in London where he met The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and he became a close friend of Eric Clapton. In 1970, he moved to settle in the Balearic Islands, Ibiza. In 1978, Capdevielle received an electric guitar as a gift from a friend and started writing his first songs. They led to the recording of his first record. The 45 Single "Solitude", described as "Reggae in French" and produced by Ketchup Music (a label owned by French
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Live at Montreux 1986 (Eric Clapton film)


and "this is how perfect blues-rock should be written, recorded and played." Olaf Oetken of "Rocktimes" online magazine notes the release features "important music of one of the world's most important and best guitar players." Oetken also calls the video release "one of Eric Clapton's best concerts". "Allmusic" did not rate the release yet. "Live at Montreux 1986" peaked at number two on the Portuguese Top 30 music DVD chart in late 2006. In Austria, the DVD
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The Dick Cavett Show


guitarist Eric Clapton, appeared on Cavett with a new group called Delaney & Bonnie & Friends which was Clapton's first attempt to break from his lead role and operate as an anonymous sideman. This was also possibly the first time Clapton ever appeared on US TV with a Fender Stratocaster since up to that time, he was famous for only playing Gibson guitars. Cavett briefly interviewed the band but the shy Clapton did not have much to say To honor Noël Coward on the occasion of his being knighted, Cavett interviewed not only "
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Something (Beatles song)


Greatest Songs of All Time", while two years later, "Mojo" placed it at number 7 in the magazine's list of the Beatles' best songs. A year after Harrison's death in November 2001, McCartney and Eric Clapton performed it at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall. George Harrison began writing "Something" in September 1968, during a session for the Beatles' self-titled double album, also known as "the White Album".Mark Lewisohn, "Something Else"
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What Is Life


Troy and Preston, as well as participating in the "blue-eyed soul" Delaney & Bonnie European tour, along with Eric Clapton, the previous December, Harrison was well placed to record "What Is Life", Leng observes. With Phil Spector as co-producer and all the Friends team on hand, the song was among the first tracks taped for Harrison's debut post-Beatles solo album; recording took place at Abbey Road Studios in London, during late May or early June. The same core of
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The History of Eric Clapton


rock musician that spans time, bands, music styles and record labels. The album cover picture was taken at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh while Clapton was playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on a Gibson Byrdland hollow-body guitar. The album has two versions of "Tell the Truth", both different from and recorded before "Tell the Truth" on "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (1970). "Tell the Truth" on this compilation is a fast up-beat version originally released
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What You Get Is What You See


"What You Get Is What You See" is a song by recording artist Tina Turner from her album "Break Every Rule" (1986). The song was written by the Terry Britten and Graham Lyle team and was notably different from the three previous singles that they had written for Turner, "What's Love Got to Do with It", "We Don't Need Another Hero" and "Two People", as it was an up-tempo country-tinged rock track featuring Eric Clapton on guitars.
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Rick Danko (album)


"New Mexico", Robbie Robertson playing lead guitar on "Java Blues", Richard Manuel playing electric piano on "Shake It" and Levon Helm singing harmony vocal on the closing track, "Once Upon a Time". Danko handled bass, rhythm and lead guitars and vocals. Other guests included Eric Clapton (guitar on "New Mexico"), Ronnie Wood (guitar on "What a Town"), Beach Boy and later Band member Blondie Chaplin (guitar and bass on various tracks) and Doug Sahm
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If I Needed Someone


played it during their only visit to Japan, in 1966. On this 1991 live version, in Inglis' description, Clapton's "looping guitar solos" complement Harrison's vocal, which is more prominent than on the Beatles' original and sung in the style of Dylan. In November 2002, a year after Harrison's death, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George, held at London's Royal Albert Hall. According to press announcements prior to the release in December 2002, Roger McGuinn recorded "If I
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Eric Clapton


Les Pauls exclusively with Cream (one bought from Andy Summers was almost identical to the stolen guitar) until 1967, when he acquired his most famous guitar in this period, a 1964 Gibson SG, dubbed "the Fool". Clapton used both the Les Paul and the SG to create his self-described "woman tone". He explained in a 1967 interview, "I am playing more smoothly now. I’m developing what I call my 'woman tone.' It's a sweet sound, something like the
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Power trio


as Muddy Waters' trio. In addition to technological improvements, another impetus for the rise of the power trio was the virtuosity of guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Rory Gallagher, who could essentially cover both the rhythm guitar and lead guitar roles in a live performance. In 1964, Frank Zappa played guitar in a power trio the Muthers, with Paul Woods on bass and Les Papp on drums. In 1966, the prototypical blues-rock power trio Cream was formed, consisting of Eric Clapton on guitar
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Michael Wilton


him to many musical styles, especially jazz, including John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell and Al Di Meola, but also to rock music like Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, and Eric Clapton. At age 8, he started practicing on the bass guitar, learning songs by bands from his father's collections, such as The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. At age 13, he also got a nylon string acoustic from his aunt and accidentally blew his father's speaker. He convinced his
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