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Clapton
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Book Description
Warner Books, 1988-08-26. Paperback. Very Good. Binding is tight and square.No names, no marks, no stickers.Some wear to the cover corners and very faint stain on top and bottom of book page edges.Ships at once.
Book summary
Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and trout fishing--Ray Coleman's comprehensive authorized biography of one of the most influential guitarists to emerge from the British 1960s blues boom has all the elements of a classic rock biography. Coleman's portrayal reveals Eric Clapton as both phenomenally talented and incredibly insecure, a combination that led to worldwide acclaim but also to addictions to heroin and alcohol. (The trout fishing let Clapton place a little distance between himself and his demons.) Coleman skillfully constructs a detailed picture of life on the '60s British rock scene, with its petty jealousies and rivalries, and Clapton's meteoric rise from the toast of London's clubland as the guitarist of the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Buesbreakers, to international prominence, first as one third of the seminal supergroup Cream, then as a member of Blind Faith, is painstakingly itemized. His later battles with alcoholism are exhaustively described, and Coleman also chronicles Clapton's stormy love life, in particular the relationship with Patti Boyd that inspired one of his biggest hits, "Layla." With an extensive discography and an instructive timeline of his career, CLAPTON! is one of the most comprehensive and revealing biographies of the guitarist available.
Publisher Notes
For over twenty years his spectacular career has been a superstar fantasy. He helped Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends...strutted center stage with the 'rave-up'...and stole the heart of Pattie Boyd, wife of Beatle George Harrison. Even when he wrecked his body with booze and drugs, he never stopped playing--and his star never dimmed.
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