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On the 27th of May in the US, and on the 3rd of July in the UK, a paperback edition of "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography" will be published. This edition includes 16 new pages of photos and illustrations.

This month Albert Lee's Biography "Country Boy" will be published. Eric Clapton has written the foreword of this book. The author is Derek Watts. In December 1978 Albert Lee met Eric Clapton while they played on a Marc Benno session (for 'Lost In Austin'). In January 1979 he joined Eric Clapton's band. Albert continued to work with Clapton for five years before Eric decided to change his entire band. He performed on 3 albums: "Just One Night", "Another Ticket" and "Money And Cigarettes". "Just One Night" was recorded live at The Budokan Theatre and featured Albert on lead vocals for a cover of Mark Knopfler's "Setting Me Up". Albert played on the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival that was held at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois on July 28, 2007. "Tulsa Time" with Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow ,Vince Gill & Albert Lee was on the DVD of the concert released in November 2007.

"Rolling Stone Cover to Cover" is a backstage pass to four decades of popular culture--a DVD ROM-based, searchable digital archive of every issue of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 to 2007. Browse issues 1 through 1026--over 98,000 searchable pages, exactly as they first appeared in print--every story, review, interview and even every ad. This exclusive box set also comes with a photo-filled, 208-page page companion coffee table book providing a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the magazines history, from birth to today. Eric Clapton was the cover on issue 10 (1968) and has been in Rolling Stone magazine quite a few times...

A multi-hour radio special in cooperation with the release of Eric Clapton’s much anticipated autobiography Clapton. Featuring exclusive rare interviews and newly re-mastered music spanning his entire career. You can give it a listen at Classic Rock Central.

Second of a two-part interview. In 1977, Eric Clapton released a version of the J.J. Cale song "Cocaine." At the time, Clapton was consuming copious amounts of cocaine — and alcohol — and had only recently kicked a heroin habit. Now 62, the legendary guitarist looks back and wonders how he survived his decades of drug and alcohol addiction. Sober for 20 years, Clapton is the father of three young daughters, ages 6, 4 and 2.

Listen online to the first in a two-part interview on NPR Radio: All Things Considered, October 17, 2007 · Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 40 years. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, through his stints with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Derek and the Dominoes, to today. Now 62, the legendary guitarist is the author of a new autobiography, Clapton. In the first of a two-part interview, Clapton talks to Melissa Block about his musical influences as a young man.

Tony Potts sits down with Eric to talk about his book "Clapton: An Autobiography" where he recalls the horrific day when his four-year-old son, Connor, fell to his death out of a window of a high rise building.

It is one of the most mythic romantic entanglements in rock ’n’ roll history. At some point in the late 1960s, Eric Clapton fell in love with Pattie Boyd, wife of his close friend George Harrison. Mr. Clapton’s 1970 masterpiece, “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” (recorded with his band...

This is another extract from "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography". Struggling to rebuild his life after decades of addiction, Eric Clapton lost his son Conor in a horrifying freak accident. Here for the first time the rock star tells the full story....

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. "Clapton: The Autobiography" is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.

Long John Baldry is considered the father of the '60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man behind the mythic persona in this book. An entire generation of British rock legends flourished under Baldry's tutelage, and "It Ain't Easy" features exclusive personal recollections from artists such as Sir Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, John Mayall, and Mick Fleetwood, as well as interviews with renowned music industry insiders like songwriter/producer Tony Macaulay, Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky, ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and others. Extensively researched, "It Ain't Easy" traces Baldry's extraordinary life from his birth during the London Blitz, to his discovery of black American music, to the sexual revolution, to the musical and social upheaval of the 1960s and '70s, and to his eventual happy retreat to the tranquility of Canada's Pacific Coast.

"Clapton - The Autobiography" is currently slated to be published in 12 languages, with more to come. Besides the U.K. / U.S. English editions, the book will be published in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Danish, Czech, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Swedish and Finnish. The French edition will even have its own specially created mini-website...

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....

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.

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.