September 2007 Archives

The dedication in Eric Clapton's autobiography is to what you might imagine were all the most important women in his life: his grandmother Rose, his wife Melia and his children Ruth, Julie, Ella and Sophie. Missing is his mother. He clears his throat of discomfort when I point that out. The book is in fact all about his mother, or the lack of her, and his attempts to replace her with other women....

Greg Kot / Chicago Tribune interviewed Eric Clapton about how Chicago's guitarists influenced him and other experiences throughout his career.

His fans called him God, and he seemed to have it all - including a fairytale affair with the wife of a Beatle for whom he wrote the song Layla. But, as the rock star reveals in this extract from his autobiography, his real relationships with women had a much darker side.

Jools Holland shows what friends are for, as he releases his twelfth studio album in as many years. Entitled "Best Of Friends", this album is a personal collection of some of his best loved and most memorable tracks from his collaborations over the last 11 albums. On this "Best of Friends" release Eric Clapton features on the song called "Mabel", together with Solomon Burke.

BBC Radio2 will broadcast bits of Bill Nighy reading Eric Clapton: The Autobiography. The first part of Bill reading the book will be send on: Friday the 5th of October at 9.15 pm (GMT) and the program will last 15 minutes. It is part 1 of 6, so there is more to come on the 5 following Fridays. The BBC Radio 2 schedule is as follow...

To promote his new 'best of' album - Complete Clapton (2CD) - and his autobiography book, Clapton - The Autobiography, Eric is planning to appear on various TV and Radio shows...

After a busy year filled with a world tour, an epic guitar festival and a highly-anticipated autobiography, comes the ultimate career CD retrospective for the artist known as Slowhand. Complete Clapton will be a 2-disc career-spanning album released by Reprise Records on October 9, 2007, the same day as Clapton, The Autobiography is released to bookstores nationwide. This will be the first time the full breadth of Clapton's musical works are contained in one set.

The official media players for Eric's upcoming release of his Autobiography book and Complete Clapton album are available now: - U.S. version - International version...

Singer/Songwriter Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds returned to store shelves, as he released his new album "Playlist" on September 18th. The artist responsible for soulful and sensible hits like "When Can I See You Again," and "Change The World," switched it up for this release. Playlist is comprised almost entirely of covers, the exceptions being "The Solider Song," and "Not Going Nowhere." For Playlist, Edmonds decided to put his own twist on tracks such as "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan, "Shower The People" and "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton, "Diary" by Bread, Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle," Dan Fogelberg's "Longer," and "Please Come To Boston" by Dave Loggins.

All My Loving, the prolific Tony Palmer's 1968 "masterpiece", is a 52-minute made-for-BBC examination of the state of the art in pop music, replete with interviews with key players, and never-before-seen footage of such heroes as Cream, Pink Floyd, and The Who. It touches on everything from the idealism of youth to the market realities of the popular; from the black man in America to the influence of LSD; from the coming of a new Parthenon to the probability of permanent ear damage; and from pop demagoguery to the global reach of George Harrison. Although this cacophonous, incoherent ramble through the music scene was widely discussed when it was first broadcast, it hardly needs to be reconsidered today.

The extremely gifted and multi-genre guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of the Allman Brothers' drummer Butch Trucks. Derek Trucks plays a commanding slide guitar that bears some similarity to the late great Duane Allman, plus much more, as Trucks and his cohorts cover a wide range of styles from...

If you know Marcy Levy's name, you read liner notes. In a 35-year-career that has been both frustrating and rewarding, Levy has been at both the front and the back of the stage. As Marcella Detroit with the duo Shakespear's Sister, she wrote and sang "Stay," a song that spent...

Quick, what songs from the seventies do you think of first when I say Eric Clapton? I'd lay odds that at least one, if not two of them, would be either "After Midnight" or "Cocaine." Back in the early 1970's, there was a great trivia question you could ask, and...