He is the father of five children and some of the most successful blues songs in music history – Eric Clapton. The Briton is celebrating his 70th birthday on 30 March. The life of a rock star could also be an issue for the teaching of social studies, or for the field of psychology.
In the age of retirement he stands before the release of a new album. Come with “Forever Man” previously unpublished works by “Slowhand” together with old hits like “Tears In Heaven” on May 11 in Germany on the market.
“I Shot The Sheriff”, “Lay Down Sally, “” Wonderful Tonight “
Eric Clapton is one of the biggest names a generation of musicians, as they may not come back into this density. He has sold 129 million albums and worked with all the greats of his time: Frank Zappa and The Beatles, with Aretha Franklin, Mark Knopfler, or Bob Dylan. Clapton created hit songs for decades evergreens: “I Shot The Sheriff” is one of them, but also the country hit “Lay Down Sally” and the ballad “Wonderful Tonight”. The trade magazine “Rolling Stone” put him in 2003 to second place in the 100 greatest guitarists of all time behind Jimi Hendrix and before Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
At 17, he joined the band “The Roosters” to
The music influenced Clapton’s life significantly, since he joined at the age of 17 years the band The Roosters. But the alcohol influenced the musicians. “The problem was that I desperately hung back in the bottle and had practically lost all control over my drinking behavior,” Clapton admitted in his autobiography “My Life”, which he published in 2007. It took several detoxification treatments to rid Eric Clapton from a drunken stupor, as he reveals in the rare relentless self-description.
But nothing took as much influence on the man many call “guitar god” as the tragic death of his son. “I never had a stronger sense, to lead a normal life, as these two,” he wrote about the days with son Conor and his mother Lory. “Conor was a handsome boy with blond hair, like mine was at that age, and brown eyes,” Clapton raved about his son. Until one morning the call came in: Conor is dead Playing the four-year-old was overthrown by an open, French window on the 53rd floor of a New York skyscraper
That was in 1991. A little later, Clapton released a song with which he processed the grief over the death of the child. “Tears In Heaven” (“Tears in Heaven”) was a worldwide hit. “If we meet in heaven, where at you, you’ll see me, call by name, like this?” It said in a row. In German schools, the song is treated in religious education.
The life of rock stars could also be an issue for the teaching of social studies, or for Psychology. Born in 1945 in English Ripley, he was raised by his grandparents because his mother was flees to Canada. When he met her, he could not call them “Mummy”. Whether his relationship with women at this point got a kink at most Clapton will know yourself. That his wife wear is as legendary as his “Slow Hand” on guitar, is part of the cultural heritage of rock and roll. His five children have three different mothers – at least two of them were not his wives
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