Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (Ripley (Surrey), 30 March 1945) is a British guitarist, composer and singer of blues, rock and pop music.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == ===Background[ Edit] === Clapton was born as a son of the sixteen-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and the 25-year-old Canadian soldier Edward Walter Fryer who was stationed in England. Fryer returned to his wife back in before Canada Claptons birth. Because his mother was very young, Clapton was raised by his grandmother Rose and her husband Jack Clapp, who was the stepfather of Claptons mother. His mother went through for his sister, married the Canadian soldier Frank McDonald and followed her husband to Germany and later to Canada. Eric is sometimes wrongly reported that the surname Clapp has, from his grandfather. Eric got his mother's last name at birth, Clapton. Eric in his youth for of course took care of that in confusion. He was initially told that his mother was his sister.
 * 1.1 Background
 * 1.2 Slowhand
 * 1.3 the 1970s
 * 1.4 the 1980s
 * 1.5 the 1990s
 * 1.6 Recently
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 3 Charts
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3.4 Dvds
 * 4 Prices
 * 4.1 Grammy's
 * 4.2 Other prices
 * 5 Literature
 * 6 external links

"Ricky", as Clapton by his grandparents was called, was a quiet child with artistic talent and a good mind. At the age of nine, he discovered the truth about his parentage. He pulled up his school work began back in themselves and negligible. When Clapton in the late 1950s with the emerging rock and roll came in contact, he was immediately enthusiastic. For his thirteenth birthday, he requested and received a guitar. He went looking for the origin of the rock and roll and the blues came to visit. At the age of 16 he left to register with the Kingston College of Art, but after a year he was ejected.

Once out of school, he began working in the construction industry, along with his grandfather. His first musical influences were Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson, whose music sometimes was turned during children's radio programs. Later he learned the music of electric guitarists B.B. King and other common. His first electric guitar his grandparents bought on installment. This is visible on photographs of the grills. Clapton him all in for a Fender Telecaster before the South was. ===Slowhand[ Edit] === At the beginning of 1963 he starred in the blues band The Roosters. After the lifting of this band he played a month in the Casey Jones and The Engineersgroup. In October, he was included in The Yardbirds, 18 months of which he would remain a member. This band was a breeding ground of good guitarists; After Clapton were Jimmy Page andJeff Beck. The Group shot to fame by his bluesgetinte rock. Clapton acquired the nickname under which he is still known: Slowhand. He got this nickname because he broke strings regularly by his style of play and then replaced on the spot, while the audience accompanied him with slow handclaps.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]. the two records he released with the Yardbirds had a lot of success. Nevertheless, he left the Yardbirds in 1965, because he felt that the Group was too much on the commercial poptoer.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From april 1965 to mid- 1966, he was a member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In this period came his talent finally to development. Highlight was the lp Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton, now become a real classic.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Mid-1966 he founded together with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker the "power trio" Cream on. With this group he finally established his reputation as the number one of the rock guitarists. By the release of three consecutive strong LPs and by energetic and extensive tours, acquired an international reputation, which barely passes Cream for those of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The performances of the band characterized by a lot of improvisation, in which all three band members could fully express their musical talents. The characters of the three members, however, were so strong that they constantly clashed with each other, making the band was short-lived. But although the band existed only two years, he is still considered one of the main of that period, if not of pop history.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In early 1969, Clapton a "super group" on: Blind Faith. Other members of this group were Steve Winwood, Rick Grech and Ginger Baker. After only one lp and one American tour also this band fell apart. ===The 70 's<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Eric Clapton, 1974<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For a time joined Clapton along with George Harrison as a guest musician with Delaney & Bonnie (born out of Mad Dogs and Englishmen of Cocker and Russell), which is the program of the tour had taken care of Blind Faith. In the summer of 1970, this led to the creation of Derek and the Dominos, initially with Dave Mason. As later also often was the case, he took the best musicians with it. Also this band did not hold it long: after one lp and a American tour was done it again. However, this resulted in the classic double-lp Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and the live double-lp In Concert on. Layla is still seen as one of the highlights in the popular music, due to the fact that clearly is to feel the pain of Clapton he has unrequited love for Pattie Boydbecause of, the wife of his friend George Harrison. By their combination with talented and driven musicians created a real classic. Among other things the contributions of guitarist Duane Allman brought the whole at a high level.

Yvonne Elliman and Eric Clapton, 1975<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite his professional successes during this period the Clapton went private not for the wind. The pressure of his career, his (provisional) unrequited feelings for Pattie Boyd and his addiction to heroin that he made the scene disappeared. After a break of three years he managed with the help of Pete Townshend (The Who) of his addiction to come off. He had a role in the film adaptation of Townshend's rock opera Tommy and started again to include plates. However, his style had undergone a change. The emphasis was more on the songs and less on the individual qualities of the musician. This was him by many of his former fans and some critics not readily accepted. A major cause is that Clapton by some band members from the American Tulsa came into contact with music by J.J. Cale, who from then on would have an enormous influence on the sound and Clapton's repertoire. Clapton was touched by the modesty of Cale and his compositions.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the concert in August 1976 in Birmingham gobble a lot of fans of Claptons verbal support for the politician Enoch Powell. At the end of the 70 's he again got to do with an addiction to alcohol, this time, leaving him in the hospital in 1981 even ended up with a stomach ulcer ' as big as a Mandarin '. Meanwhile he was also married in 1978 with Pattie Boyd, who Meanwhile Harrison was separated. ===The 80 's<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Tina Turner and Eric Clapton, 1987<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the 1980s he continued to release albums with great success, although he never reached the immense popularity of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1985 he performed atLive Aid, in Philadelphia. His performance was one of the highlights of the American portion of Live Aid. In 1988 he played with Dire Straits during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert. Clapton also showed itself in the 80 's, along with many other artists, often see at concerts for The Prince's Trust, a foundation of the British Prince Charles. In 1987 he became a member of the anonymous alcoholics, and since then it seems are alcohol addiction under control. During the recording of the album Behind the sun in 1985, he met Yvonne Khan Kelly, with whom he had a relationship and a child: his eldest daughter Ruth (1985). Clapton left Pattie Boyd, and they separated in1988 . The relationship with Kelly, however, lasted long, and Clapton had a loose relationship with Italian model Lori Del Santo. From this relationship was in 1986 a son, Conor, was born. ===The 90 's<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Eric Clapton, 2008<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Early 90 's Eric Clapton again experienced some personal dramas. In a helicopter accident in August 1990 came a good friend and a number of crew members killed: guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, his American manager Bobby Brooks, Assistant tour manager Colin Smythe and bodyguard Nigel Browne. Clapton itself sat in another helicopter because he had swapped with Vaughan to another gig to see another artist's on that evening. Vaughan and Clapton had occurred in East Troy in Wisconsin, USA.On 20 March 1991 are four-year-old son Conor fell out of a window on the 53rd floor of a skyscraper, where he lived with his mother, in Manhattan, New York.

<p lang="en" len="616" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Clapton expressed many sadness that he had in the song "Tears in Heaven" with whom he won a 1992 Grammy Award .

<p lang="en" len="395" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With the appearance of the album "From the Cradle" in 1994 and again his old sources to the drilled Clapton traditional blues went back to play a prominent role in his music: see The blues (1999), Riding with the King (2000).

<p lang="en" len="591" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1997 he founded on the island of Antigua on the Crossroads Centre , an International Rehabilitation Center for alcohol, drug and other addictions. ===Recently<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Eric Clapton, 2010<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In January 2002, he married Melia McEnery in the same church where he had taken eleven years earlier farewell of his son. The couple had three daughters. Granted In2004 Clapton his cooperation to the new cd from his old friend Rod Stewart, called Stardust.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Eric Clapton came In 2005 with new work out on the album Back Home. In the beginning of 2006 began Clapton with a world tour. On november 3, 2006, a duet album by Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale, called The Road to Escondido, with the participation of, among others, Billy Preston, Doyle Bramhall II, Albert Lee, Nathan East, Derek Trucksand the familiar band of J.J. Cale. On 28 July 2007, for the second time the Crossroads Guitar Festival held in Chicago for Claptons Crossroads Antigua Foundation. Many artists such as Eric Clapton, unselfishly granted their cooperation (organizer), B.B. King, John Mayall, Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow and Buddy Guy. In september 2007, the album was Complete Clapton, with 36 hits from his entire career from 1968 to 2006, plus a book about his life, under the same title.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On the dvd of " Jeff Beck Performing this week live at Ronnie Scott 's" the ... from 2008 (five concerts in a row in november 2007) plays Clapton in the Encore "Little Brown Bird" by Muddy Waters and "You Need Love" by Willie Dixon, in the English jazz club Ronnie Scott 's in Soho (London). ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Charts<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meanwhile, seventeen Grammys during his career got Clapton in total. He is also the only artist who has three entries in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: as a member of the Yardbirds, as a member of Cream and as a solo artist. ===Grammy's<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Literature<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1963 Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds (The Yardbirds)
 * 1965 Five Live Yardbirds (The Yardbirds)
 * 1966 Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers)
 * 1966 Fresh Cream (Cream)
 * 1967 Raw Blues (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers)
 * 1967 Disraeli Gears (Cream)
 * 1968 Wheels Of Fire (Cream)
 * 1969 Goodbye (Cream)
 * 1969 Best of Cream (Cream)
 * 1969 Blind Faith (Blind Faith)
 * 1970 Live Cream (Cream)
 * 1970 Eric Clapton
 * 1970 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek and the Dominos)
 * 1972 Live Cream Volume II (Cream)
 * 1973 Live at the Fillmore (Derek and the Dominos)
 * 1973 Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (Live)
 * 1974 461 Ocean Boulevard
 * 1975 there's one in every crowd
 * 1975 E.C. was here
 * 1976 No reason to cry
 * 1977 Slowhand
 * 1978 Backless
 * 1980 Just one night (Live)
 * 1981 Another ticket
 * 1982 timepieces: best of Eric Clapton
 * 1983 Money and cigarettes
 * 1983 Time Pieces Volume 2-Live In The 70 's
 * 1984 Too much monkey business
 * 1985 Behind the sun
 * 1985 Edge Of Darkness (soundtrack)
 * 1986 August
 * 1987 Lethal Weapon (soundtrack)
 * 1988 Crossroads (box)
 * 1988 Lethal Weapon II (soundtrack)
 * 1988 Homeboy (soundtrack)
 * 1989 Journeyman
 * 1990 The Layla sessions (Derek and the Dominos)
 * 1991 24 nights (Live)
 * 1992 Rush (soundtrack)
 * 1992 Lethal Weapon III (soundtrack)
 * 1992 Unplugged (Live)
 * 1994 From the cradle
 * 1995 The cream of Clapton (Live)
 * 1996 Crossroads 2: Live in the seventies (Live)
 * 1997 Retail Therapy
 * 1998 Pilgrim
 * 1999 Blues
 * 1999 Cronicles
 * 1999 The Story Of Us (soundtrack)
 * 2000 Riding with the King
 * 2001 Reptile
 * 2002 One more car, one more rider (Live)
 * 2003 Me & Mr Johnson
 * 2004 Sessions for Robert J
 * 2005 Back Home
 * 2006 The Road to Escondido
 * 2010 Clapton
 * 2013 Old Sock<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]
 * 1964 I Wish You Would/A Certain Girl (The Yardbirds)
 * 1964 Good Morning Little School girl/I Ain't Got You (The Yardbirds)
 * 1965 For Your Love /Got To Hurry (The Yardbirds)
 * 1965 I'm Your Witchdoctor/Telephone Blues (Bluesbreakers)
 * 1966 Lonely Years/Bernard Jenkins (Bluesbreakers)
 * 1966 Parchman Farm/Key To Love (Bluesbreakers)
 * 1966 Wrapping Paper/cat's Squirrel (Cream)
 * 1966 I Feel Free/N.S.U. (Cream)
 * 1967 Strange Brew/Tales Of Brave Ulysses (Cream)
 * 1968 Anyone For Tennis/Pressed Rat And Warthog (Cream)
 * 1968 Sunshine Of Your Love/SWLABR (Cream)
 * 1969 White Room/Those Were The Days (Cream)
 * 1969 Badge/What A Bringdown (Cream)
 * 1970 After Midnight/Easy Now
 * 1972 Layla/Bell Bottom Blues
 * 1973 Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad/Presence Of The Lord
 * 1974 I Shot The Sheriff/Give Me Strength
 * 1974 Willie And The Hand Jive/Mainline Florida
 * 1975 Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Pretty Blue Eyes
 * 1975 Knocking ' On Heavens Door/Someone Like You
 * 1976 Hello Old Friend/All Our Past Times
 * 1977 Carnival/Hungry
 * 1977 Lay Down Sally/Cocaine
 * 1978 Wonderful Tonight/Peaches And Diesel
 * 1978 Promises/Watch Out For Lucy
 * 1979 If I Don't Be There By Morning/ Tulsa Time
 * 1981 I Can't Stand It/Black Rose
 * 1981 Another Ticket/Rita Mae
 * 1983 I've Got A Rock and Roll Heart/Everybody Oughta Make A Man In Love/Change (only on 12 inch)
 * 1983 The Shape you're In/Crosscut Saw/Pretty Girl (only on 12 inch)
 * 1983 Slow Down Linda/Crazy Country Hop
 * 1985 Edge Of Darkness/Shoot Out (BBC-single)
 * 1985 Forever Man/Too Bad/something's Happening (only on 12 inch)
 * 1985 she's Waiting/Jailbait
 * 1987 Behind The Mask/Grand Illusion/Wanna Make Love To You (only on 12 inch)/Crossroads/White Room (double pack only)
 * 1987 it's In The Way That You Use It/Bad Influence/Same Old Blues (only on 12 inch)
 * 1987 Tearing Us Apart/Hold On/Run (15 July 1986, just Live on 12 inch)
 * 1987 Holy Mother/Tangled In Love/Forever Man (12 "only)/Behind The Mask (only on 12 inch)
 * 1989 Bath Love/Before You Accuse Me/Badge (15 July 1986, just Live on 12 inch)/Let It Rain (Live on 15 July 1986, just 12 inch)/I Shot The Sheriff (Live only on 15 July 1986, boxsetsingle)
 * 1990 No Alibis/Running On Faith/Behind The Mask (15 July 1986, just Live on 12 inch)
 * 1990 Pretending/Hard Times/Knock On Wood (only on 12 inch)/Behind The Sun (only on cd-single)
 * 1992 Tears in Heaven
 * 1994 Motherless Child/Driftin'/County Jail/32-20
 * 1996 Change The World/Danny Boy
 * 2001 I Ain't Gonna Stand For It/Losing Hand/Johnny Guitar
 * 1972 Album Of The Year for "The Concert For Bangladesh" (1972). George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, and Klaus Voormann shared the price as performers and George Harrison and Phil Spector as producers.
 * 1987 Best Performance Music Video for "The Prince's Trust All Star Rock Concert", along with all the other performers in the video.
 * 1991 Best Male Rock Vocal for "Bad Love".
 * 1992 Best Rock Song for "Layla". Awarded to Clapton and Jim Gordon.
 * 1992 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Tears In Heaven".
 * 1992 Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Unplugged".
 * 1992 Song Of The Year for "Tears In Heaven". Awarded to Clapton and Will Jennings.
 * 1992 Album Of The Year for "Unplugged". Awarded to Clapton and Russ Titelman, producer.
 * 1992 Record Of The Year for "Tears In Heaven". Awarded to Clapton and Russ Titelman, producer.
 * 1994 Best Traditional Blues Album – or – Best Traditional Blues Recording for the album "From The Cradle".
 * 1996 Best Male Pop Vocal for "Change The World".
 * 1996 Record Of The Year for "Change The World". Awarded to Clapton and Babyface, producer.
 * 1996 Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "SRV Shuffle" from the album, "A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan". Shared with Jimmie Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, and Art Neville.
 * 1998 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "My father's Eyes".
 * 2000 Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "The Calling" (2000). Awarded to Clapton and Santana (Carlos Santana, Karl Perazzo, Tony Lindsay, Rodney Holmes, Raul Rekow, Benny Rietveld, Chester Thompson).
 * 2000 Best Traditional Blues Album – or – Best Traditional Blues Recording for the album "Riding With The King". Awarded to Clapton, B.B. King and Simon Climie, producer.
 * 2001 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for "Reptile"
 * 1983 Silver Clef Award for Outstanding Achievement In The World Of British Music.
 * 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the British Phonographic Institute in the Royal Albert Hall on February 9, 1987.
 * 1987 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for the soundtrack to "Edge Of Darkness".
 * 1988 the British Prince Charles handed Clapton a silver model of a Fender Stratocaster for its 25 years in the music industry to celebrate.
 * 1989 Best Guitarist Award at the first Elvis Awards (also International Rock Awards).
 * 1990 Living Legend Award at the Elvis Awards (also International Rock Awards).
 * 1990 Top Album Rock Artist – 1990 Billboard Music Award
 * 1991 given a key for a box from the Royal Albert Hall.
 * 1992 Best Video Award for "Tears In Heaven" on the MTV Awards.
 * 1995 W.C. Handy Award For Blues at the 16th annual ceremony.
 * 1999 American Music Award for favorite male artist
 * 1999 GQ Man Of The Year Award for Music: Solo Artist.
 * 1999 celebrated by BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), the American artists organization that the songs most played on the radio and television in the United States the reward. Clapton's song "My father's Eyes" won the Robert Musel Award for most played song of the year. "Layla" won a prize because the number four million times played (this is equivalent to 23 years of continuous play!) "Wonderful Tonight" got a price because it was played two million times and also received a "Pop Award". Also the soundtrack to "Lethal Weapon 4" was rewarded.
 * 1999 Stevie Ray Vaughan Award from the Music Assistance Program. This prize is a recognition for musicians who utilize for the community. Clapton received this prize for his continued commitment to the establishment of the Crossroads Centre Antigua.
 * Clapton!, Ray Coleman (Warner Books, 1985)
 * Fred Weiler , Eric Clapton(smithmark, 1992)
 * Eric Clapton: Crossroads liner notes
 * Complete Clapton autobiography (2007)