ERIC CLAPTON

ERIC CLAPTON
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LAYLA	(Derek & The Dominoes)	1971	10	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "It was actually about and emotional experience, a woman that I felt really deeply about and who turned me down, and I had to kind of pour it out in some way." (1974:Rolling Stone) Eric Clapton: "Ian Dallas told me the tale of Layla and Manjun, a romantic Persian love story in which a young man, Manjun, falls passionately in love with the beautiful Layla, but is forbidden by her father to marry her and goes crazy with desire." (Clapton, autobiography) Eric Clapton: "The album was the culmination of about a year of hippie living. We lived in my house in England, playing non-stop, 24 hours a day. We were on a lot of dope and taking a lot of different things, but we were just playing all the time, just writing and fiffing. When we went into the studio we didn't actually have too many concrete songs, but there was so much stored up that it just came together Duane hadn't even been talked about at that point; that was very coincidental. We were in the studio in Miami and heard that the Allmans were playing nearby. We went to see them and they came back to the studio, and we played them some stuff and jammed together. Duane and me hit it off right away--instant soul mates--and I asked him if he'd like to come back to the studio and play and help me out with the record. Of course, he agreed." Eric Clapton: "I'm incredibly proud of that song, To have ownership of something that powerful is something I'll never be able to get used to. It still knocks me out when I play it. When we come to the symphonic bit at the end, that's the chance for me to look back over the song and think, 'Yeah, this is beautiful'. I've tried to re-create the sense of that again and again when I've done albums, And it cannot be done. It pales in significance. I've realized it's pointless. Just leave it be." (1988:Rolling Stone ) KILL ME [I] The song was inspired by a love story that originated as a poem The Story of Layla and Majnun in 5th-Century Iran, was later adopted by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and went crazy because he could not marry her. The song was further inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison of The Beatles. (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar Bobby Whitlock – Hammond organ, piano, background vocals Carl Radle – bass Jim Gordon – drums, percussion, piano Produced: Tom Dowd, Derek and the Dominos Engineered: Ron Albert, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Howie Albert, Carl Richardson, Mac Emmerman Recorded at: Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, USA, Sep. 9,1970 KILL ME W S
TEARS IN HEAVEN	.	1991	2	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "The most powerful of the new songs was 'Tears in Heaven.' Musically, I had always been haunted by Jimmy Cliff's song 'Many Rivers to Cross' and wanted to borrow from that chord progression, but essentially I wrote this one to ask the question I had been asking myself ever since my grandfather had died. Will we really meet again? It's difficult to talk about these songs in depth, that's why they're songs. Their birth and development is what kept me alive through the darkest period of my life. When I try to take myself back to that time, to recall the terrible numbness that I lived in, I recoil in fear. I never want to go through anything like that again. Originally, these songs were never meant for publication or public consumption; they were just what I did to stop from going mad. I played them to myself, over and over, constantly changing or refining them, until they were part of my being." (2007:autobiography) Will Jennings: "Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called 'Help Me Up' for the end of the movie... then Eric saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to me, 'I want to write a song about my boy.' Eric had the first verse of the song written, which, to me, is all the song, but he wanted me to write the rest of the verse lines and the release ('Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees...'), even though I told him that it was so personal he should write everything himself. He told me that he had admired the work I did with Steve Winwood and finally there was nothing else but do to as he requested, despite the sensitivity of the subject. This is a song so personal and so sad that it is unique in my experience of writing songs. ..... It was furthest through from my mind, really (being a hit). I was so involved in the sensitivity of the subject, and I didn't even think about that. I'm passionate about all the songs I write, but it was just in another place entirely, another category." (Songfacts) KILL ME [I] The song was written about the pain and loss Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor. Conor fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment building owned by his mother's friend on March 20, 1991. Clapton arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident. (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Will Jennings) Eric Clapton – vocals, guitar, dobro Nathan East – bass Lenny Castro – percussion Jimmy Bralower – drum machine Randy Kerber – synthesizer JayDee Maness – pedal steel Gayle Levant – celtic harp Produced: Russ Titelman Engineered: ?? Recorded at: ?? KILL ME W S
LAY DOWN SALLY	.	1977	3	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: ""It's as close as I can get, being English, but the band being a Tulsa band, they play like that naturally. You couldn't get them to do an English rock sound, no way. Their idea of a driving beat isn't being loud or anything. It's subtle."" KILL ME [I] In this song, Clapton tries to convince a girl to hang out with him in bed instead of leaving. (Songfacts) "Lay Down Sally" is a country blues performed in the style of JJ Cale. Clapton also attributed other members of his band - Carl Radle of Oklahoma, George Terry, Jamie Oldaker and others - as influencing the song. (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy, George Terry) Eric Clapton – electric guitars, vocals George Terry – electric guitar Carl Radle – electric bass Jamie Oldaker – drums Dick Sims – electric piano Yvonne Elliman – vocals Marcy Levy – backing vocals Produced: Glyn Johns Engineered: ?? Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England KILL ME W S
COCAINE	.	1980	30	VIDEO	[Q] JJ Cale: "I'm a big fan of Mose Allison. He and Gatemouth Brown were two of my biggest influences. I had written a song in a Mose Allison style — sort of a jazzbo style. The guy I was working with at the time — Audey Ashworth — said, "I like that song, but can you cut it again and make it more “rock and roll'?' So I went back and re-cut it." (2009:Gibson) Eric Clapton: "It's no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat. So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be "anti"—which the song "Cocaine" is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought ... from a distance ... or as it goes by ... it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine." [P] (JJ Cale) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitar Dave Markee - bass Henry Spinetti - drums Chris Stainton - keyboards Produced: Eric Clapton, Jon Astley Engineered: ?? Recorded at: (live in concert) Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan KILL ME W S
WONERFUL TONIGHT	.	1978	16	VIDEO	[Q] Patty Boyd: (Eric) "was sitting round playing his guitar while I was trying on dresses upstairs. I was taking so long and I was panicking about my hair, my clothes, everything, and I came downstairs expecting him to really berate me but he said, 'Listen to this!'" (2008:The Guardian) Patty Boyd: "For years it tore at me. To have inspired Eric, and George before him, to write such music was so flattering. 'Wonderful Tonight' was the most poignant reminder of all that was good in our relationship, and when things went wrong it was torture to hear it." KILL ME [I] Eric Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" in 1976 while waiting for his girlfriend (and future wife) Pattie to get ready for a night out. They were going to a Buddy Holly tribute that Paul McCartney put together, and Clapton was in the familiar position of waiting while she tried on clothes. (Songfacts) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar George Terry – guitar Carl Radle – bass Jamie Oldaker – drums, percussion Dick Sims – keyboards Mel Collins – saxophone Yvonne Elliman – harmony/backing vocals Marcy Levy – harmony/backing vocals Produced: Glyn Johns Engineered: Glyn Johns Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England, May 1977 KILL ME W S
AFTER MIDNIGHT	.	1970	18	VIDEO	[Q] J.J. Cale: "I did it because I was an engineer and had access to the studio. In those days, people didn’t have studios in their house. Somebody had to put up the money to rent the studio and hire the musicians. But because I was an engineer, after everything was done, my friends would come in, and that’s where the original version of “After Midnight” came on. I’d play with the tape recorder. I love imitating Les Paul. Multi-track fascinated me. So I did “After Midnight” and went all over trying to sell that song, and couldn’t sell it. Snuff Garrett was doing all the Gary Lewis stuff, and Leon was doing arrangements for him at the time, and I was the engineer over at Leon’s house. I made “After Midnight” at Leon’s house, and Snuff sold it to Liberty. Music is music; there’s only so many notes and chords. I’ll hear something on TV, and either borrow it, or subconsciously it gets put in. One of my favorite Beatles songs was “We Can Work It Out.” If you listen to that and “After Midnight,” they’re totally different, but that was me kind of imitating the Beatles. That’s how that works." (Vintage Guitar) J.J. Cale: "I had come back to Oklahoma, where I had a job playing guitar for a country singer. I was riding in my car, and “After Midnight” came on the radio. I had been in the business long enough to know that particular radio station was owned by a conglomerate, and if they were playing it there, they were playing it everywhere. I thought, “Oh, my gosh.” An old friend had told me that Clapton had cut the song, but I just went “Yeah, sure.” Of course when I heard it on the radio, I knew it was on one of his records." (Performing Songwriter) [P] (J.J. Cale) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitar Stephen Stills - guitar Delaney Bramlett - rhythm guitar, backing vocals Carl Radle - bass Jim Gordon - drums John Simon - piano Leon Russell - piano Bobby Whitlock - organ, backing vocals Bobby Keys - saxophone Jim Price - trumpet Bonnie Bramlett - backing vocals J. I. Allison - backing vocals Rita Coolidge - backing vocals Sonny Curtis - backing vocals Produced: Delaney Bramlett Engineered: Bill Halverson Recorded at: Village Recorders Studio, West Los Angeles, California, USA, Jan. 1970 W S U
I SHOT THE SHERIFF	.	1974	1	VIDEO	[Q] Bob Marley: "I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead… but it's the same idea: justice." [P] (Bob Marley) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitar George Terry - guitar, backing vocals Carl Radle - bass Jamie Oldaker - drums Albhy Galuten - piano Dick Sims - organ Yvonne Elliman - backing vocals Produced: Tom Dowd Engineered: ?? Recorded at: Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, USA, 1974 KILL ME W
PROMISES	.	1978	9	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Linn: "I was a guitarist, songwriter and recording engineer in LA in my late teens and early twenties. My first hit was Eric Clapton’s 1979 “Promises”, which I co-wrote with a friend named Richard Feldman. In my late teens I had played guitar for a popular artist at the time named Leon Russell. Eric Clapton worked with musicians who had previously played in Leon’s bands, which provided a nice connection to get our demo to Clapton. " () Marcy Levy: "'Promises' written mostly by Richard Feldman, but I helped with a few words and the title" (www.marcella-detroit.com) KILL ME [P] (Richard Feldman, Roger Linn) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitars Dick Sims - keyboards Marcy Levy - vocals George Terry - guitar Carl Radle - bass guitar, backing vocals Jamie Oldaker - drums, percussion, backing vocals Produced: Glyn Johns Engineered: Glyn Johns Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England KILL ME W O
BAD LOVE	.	1989	88	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "Warner Brothers wanted another 'Layla'. I thought, well, if you sit down and write a song in a formatted way, it’s not so hard. You think 'What was "Layla" comprised of? A fiery intro modulated into the first verse and chorus with a riff around it. I had this stuff in my head, so I just juggled it around, and Mick Jones (of the group Foreigner) came in to help tidy up. He was the one who said 'You should put a “Badge” middle in there’. So we did that. Although it sounds like a cold way of doing it, it actually took on it’s own life." KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Mick Jones) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, electric guitar Phil Palmer - guitar Pino Palladino - bass Phil Collins - drums, harmony background vocals Alan Clark - keyboards Katie Kissoon - background vocals Tessa Niles - background vocals Produced: Russ Titelman Engineered: Dave O'Donnell, Dave Wittman, Jack Joseph Puig, Steve "Barney" Chase Recorded at: The Power Station, New York, New York, USA KILL ME W S
FOREVER MAN	.	1985	26	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "They (Warner Brothers) sent me three songs by a Texas songwriter – Forever Man, Something's Happening and See What Love Can Do – and they were good." KILL ME [I] Clapton had just signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records when he started recording Behind the Sun. When the album was completed, the record company rejected it because they felt it did not have enough singles. They commissioned three songs by Texas composer Jerry Lynn Williams, one of which was "Forever Man". (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Jerry Lynn Williams) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitars, backing vocals Steve Lukather – rhythm guitar Nathan East – bass Jeff Porcaro – drums Lenny Castro – percussion, congas Michael Omartian – synthesizer Ted Templeman – timbales Marcy Levy – backing vocals Produced: Lenny Waronker, Ted Templeman Engineered: Lee Herschberg Recorded at: Lion Share Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA .....and Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, California, USA KILL ME W
I CAN'T STAND IT	.	1981	10	VIDEO	[I] AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald recalls the song as "one of Eric Clapton's biggest hits from the early '80s" and found "this song found him continuing, in his words, to be as much a musicologist as a musician." Greenwald goes on to saying that the songs "lyrics have a venomous jealousy, and they are some of Clapton's most literate of the period". He rounded his review up by saying that "musically, some classic, almost Booker T. & the M.G.'s-styled chord changes highlight the driving tempo, providing Clapton with a huge hit" (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar Albert Lee – guitar, backing vocals Dave Markee – bass Henry Spinetti – drums, percussion Gary Brooker – keyboards, backing vocals Chris Stainton – keyboards Produced: Tom Dowd Engineered: Tom Dowd Recorded at: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas KILL ME W S
I'VE GOT A ROCK'N'ROLL HEART	.	1983	18	VIDEO	[P] (Steve Diamond, Troy Seals, Eddie Setser) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar, slide guitar Ry Cooder – guitar Albert Lee – guitar, keyboards, background vocals Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass Roger Hawkins – drums Peter Solley – Hammond Organ Chuck Kirkpatrick – background vocals John Sambataro – background vocals Produced: Tom Dowd Engineered: ?? Recorded at: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas KILL ME W S
PRETENDING	.	1989	55	VIDEO	[I] According to one of the Eric Clapton biographies, Clapton said that he sang Pretending the way he thought Leon (Russell) would. (Mergeop's Leon Russell FAQ) KILL ME [P] (Jerry Lynn Williams) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, electric guitar Jerry Lynn Williams - guitar Nathan East - bass Jimmy Bralower - drums programming Greg Phillinganes - piano Carol Steele - congas Produced: Russ Titelman Engineered: Dave O'Donnell, Dave Wittman, Jack Joseph Puig, Steve "Barney" Chase Recorded at: The Power Station, New York, New York, USA KILL ME W
MY FATHERS EYES	.	1998	16	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "It was another song I wrote on holiday last year, when I had a kind of revelation about my son. It's a very personal matter, but I never met my father, and I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes. So I wrote this song about that. It's a strange kind of cycle thing that occurred to me, and another thing I felt I would like to share. That's how that song came about. " (1993:Unplugged) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton) Produced: Engineered: Recorded at: KILL ME W
CHANGE THE WORLD	.	1996	5	VIDEO	[Q] Gordon Kennedy: "'Change The World' was a song written over the course of a year by Tommy Sims, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and myself. On a recording session in Quad Studios in Nashville, in the early '90s, Wayne and I were recording some demos in an attempt to do the 'artist' thing. We recorded four songs that day, three of which wound up on Garth (Brooks)'s Chris Gaines CD (this would happen several years later). During that session, Tommy was there playing bass and played us the nugget of an idea he had, wondering if it might be something that would work for the sound we were doing. He had the title and a chord progression and melody direction going. Wayne would ask him some months later for a tape of the idea so he could work on it. He wrote the lyrics to the chorus and all but one line of the second verse. Then, it went dormant again for a time before I asked Wayne about its progress. He gave me what he'd done on it. I finished writing the music, went to Columbus, Ohio and laid down a demo track with Tommy. He was there working on a church choir album. On the way home, I listened to a tape of the track and dictated lyrics into another little handheld recorder (I still have the micro-cassette!) I wrote the lyrics to the first verse and the missing line in the second verse. When I got home, I went into the studio and did a guitar and all of the vocals for a finished demo, the one Clapton heard later… None of the three of us were together when we wrote what we each wrote on the song." (American Songwriter) Eric Clapton: "When I heard Tommy Sims' demo, I could hear Paul McCartney doing that, so I needed to, with greatest respect to Paul, take that and put it somewhere black. So I asked Babyface who, even though he may not be aware of it, gave it the blues thing. The first two lines I play on that song on the acoustic guitar are lines I quote wherever I can and they come from the beginning of "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters. On every record I make where I think, this has got a chance of doing well, I make sure I pay my dues on this. So I think I've found a way to do it, but it has to have one foot in the blues, even if its subtly disguised" (2013:MOJO) KILL ME [P] (Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick) Produced: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds Engineered: Brad Gilderman, Thomas Russo Recorded at: Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA .... (Overdubs: London, England) KILL ME W
NO ALIBIS	.	1990	--	VIDEO	[I] The lyrics are about a male person asking his girlfriend or wife not to lie to him further, suggesting that all the lies she tells make the situation worse. ..... In Clapton's autobiography, he describes that he wrote the songs with Williams, who was credited exclusively, but that Clapton was betrayed by his former partner Lory Del Santo.(Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Jerry Lynn Williams) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitar Jerry Lynn Williams - guitar Nathan East - bass, backing vocals Jimmy Bralower - drums programming Carol Steele - percussion Greg Phillinganes - keyboard, backing vocals Robbie Kondor - synthesizer programming Richard Tee - piano Daryl Hall - harmony vocals Lani Groves - backing vocals Chaka Khan - backing vocals Produced: Russ Titelman Engineered: Dave O'Donnell, Dave Wittman, Jack Joseph Puig, Steve "Barney" Chase Mixer: Russ Titelman, Gary Wright Recorded at: The Power Station, New York, New York, USA KILL ME W S
BELL BOTTOM BLUES	(Derek & The Dominoes)	1971	91	VIDEO	[Q] Bobby Whitlock: ".... it hasn't been a month-and-a-half ago that I wrote him to explain how 'Bell Bottom Blues' came about, and I sent it to Eric and to Michael. Someone had come online and says something about, 'Is this true that 'Bell Bottom Blues' was written about a pair of trousers?' And I said, Yeah, well, it was that and this girl in France that Eric was seeing for a little while while we were there. I'd forgotten about Pattie [Boyd - subject of 'Layla'] asking him about those pants. But anyway, before I would answer this and put it out publicly online, I decided, Well, I probably ought to write Eric. I had his e-mail address, but I'd never written him. I never asked for anything. You know, I don't want anything from anybody, especially him. I wrote to him and said, 'I just want to clear this up, in case you've forgotten, this is how it came.' I said, 'You came to me at Hurtwood [Clapton's house in England where the band would rehearse], I was standing in the doorway of the TV room and you walked up to me and you said, 'What do you think of this?'' He was holding the guitar and he sang me the first two verses, all except for the last line on the second verse. And I said, 'You won't find a better loser.' And then we went into the TV room and wrote the chorus, the bridge: 'Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back? I'd gladly do it.' And then Eric comes in: 'I don't want to fade away, give me one more day.' And then the last verse, he wrote three quarters of it, and I came in with the very last line. I said, 'That's how it goes. I hope this helps refresh your memory.' And that was the end of it. Well, within three minutes he wrote back, 'He's right, he's absolutely right.' He was writing to Michael, saying, 'Yeah, I've been thinking about this.' Well, they have gone to all of the PR reps, ASCAP, BMI, all of the people, Universal, all the folks that changed it around. So from now on forever, 'Bell Bottom Blues' is going to read 'Written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock.'"" (2004:Songfacts) KILL ME [I] It deals with Clapton's unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison. ..... Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers that were popular at the time. According to Clapton, the song was written for Pattie Boyd after she asked him to get her a pair of bell-bottom blue jeans from the United States. Clapton wrote the song for her, along with many others on the album such as "I Looked Away" and "Layla". The lyrics describe a lovers' quarrel. ..... In 2015, in an interview by Mike Rossi for Fabio Create, Whitlock stated that Clapton had now formally accepted that Whitlock had contributed, and in future the song would be jointly credited. The BMI website now credits both writers. (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock) Eric Clapton — lead vocals, guitars Bobby Whitlock — keyboards, backing vocals Carl Radle — bass, percussion Jim Gordon — drums, percussion Produced: Tom Dowd, Derek and the Dominos Engineered: Ron Albert, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Howie Albert, Carl Richardson, Mac Emmerman Recorded at: Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, USA, 1970 KILL ME W S
LET IT RAIN	.	1972	48	VIDEO	[Q] Bonnie Bramlett: "Well, when I first wrote the song, that's the way I wanted to do it (with a calypso sound). And then, when Eric said, "I want to do that song," I thought, well, that won't work on this album. So, I decided to do it rock 'n roll (sings beginning guitar notes), and we did those, him and I played twin guitars, and we tripled 'em and tripled 'em, where it sounds like a wall of guitars. And we did it through little ol' Champ amps, you know, little bitty ol' Champ amps, and so that's how we got that sound. Matter of fact, that's in the Fender Hall of Fame because of the sound that we got (laughs)." () : "" () : "" () KILL ME [P] (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Clapton) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitar Stephen Stills - guitar Delaney Bramlett - rhythm guitar, backing vocals Carl Radle - bass Jim Gordon - drums John Simon - piano Leon Russell - piano Bobby Whitlock - organ, backing vocals Bobby Keys - saxophone Jim Price - trumpet Bonnie Bramlett - backing vocals J. I. Allison - backing vocals Rita Coolidge - backing vocals Sonny Curtis - backing vocals Produced: Delaney Bramlett Engineered: Bill Halverson Recorded at: ?? W S
TEARING US APART	with/Tina Turner	1987	(5)	VIDEO	[I] The song was about "the committee", the group of Pattie Boyd's friends whom Clapton blamed for coming between Pattie and him. (Wikipedia) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton, Greg Phillinganes) Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar Tina Turner – lead vocals Nathan East – bass guitar Phil Collins – drums, percussion, backing vocals Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, backing vocals Larry Williams – synthesizer programming Produced: Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Tom Dowd Engineered: Magic Moreno, Paul Gommersall, Peter Hefter Recorded at: ?? KILL ME W
WATCH OUT FOR LUCY	.	1989	40	VIDEO	: "" () : "" () : "" () KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton) Eric Clapton - lead vocals, guitars Dick Sims - keyboards Marcy Levy - vocals George Terry - guitar Carl Radle - bass guitar, backing vocals Jamie Oldaker - drums, percussion, backing vocals Produced: Glyn Johns Engineered: Glyn Johns Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England KILL ME W

FIVE GREATEST ALBUMS

Slowhand
1977

Layla, Other Assorted
Love Songs, 1970

Journeyman
1989

461 Ocean Boulevard
1974

Eric Clapton
1970

STATE OF THE ARTIST

SEMI-ACTIVE
Eric Clapton has retired from touring, mainly for health reasons as it is hard at his age to do a major tour. At this point he has done and will do some single concerts yearly.

TRIBUTE BANDS
ThE Core Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Website Touring

THE ARTIST

From: Ripley, Surrey, England	Artist Website
Founded: 1970 - Present	Wikipedia Bio
...	Wikipedia Discography
Rock N Roll Hall of Fame: 2000	Utube Bio
Rolling Stone List, 100 Greatest Acts of All Time: 53

HIDDEN GEM
CIRCUS LEFT TOWN	.	1998	--	VIDEO	[Q] Eric Clapton: "The last night I spent with Conor, we went to the circus. We went to see one of those huge things that they do in America where they have three rings going on at the same time. You've got clowns and tigers and everything. They don't do anything in half measures. They just pile it all in. Plus, they're trying to sell you things at the same time. I mean it was an amazing thing. After the show, we were driving back to New York City and all he could remember, all he could talk about was this clown. He'd seen a clown with a knife, which I didn't see at all. Some clown was running around brandishing a knife, which was something quite frightening but he liked it – I mean it excited him. And so that is in the lyrics. But, and I suppose what I was doing, I was remembering, I mean paying tribute to this night with him and also seeing him as being the circus of my life. You know – that particular part of my life has now left town" (1998:BBC) KILL ME [P] (Eric Clapton) Produced: Eric Clapton, Simon Climie Engineered: Recorded at: KILL ME W

ThE Core