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Eric Clapton was interviewed by Johnnie Walker last Tuesday (3 June 2008). Johnnie asked him some questions about the current tour. Though for Eric the main subject of the interview was the weather, he also talked about the current band (on the previous band: Sometimes I hardly ever got a...

Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton are featured in the cover story of 20th Century Guitar's February 2008 issue.

BBC radio DJ Johnnie Walker interviewed Eric Clapton on his Sunday Afternoon Radio Show on 18 November (BBC Radio 2 from 16:30 to 18:30). The radio broadcast is available online for listening at the BBC Radio 2 website for this Johnnie Walker show.

Via the link below you can watch 9 videos with Eric Clapton talking about the following topics: - Going Into The Unknown - Concert For Bangladesh - Songs Expression Emotions - Bob Marley And Robert Johnson - Writing About Sobriety - Being A Purist Early On - The Future -...

The previous mentioned Eric Clapton interview by Larry King is now also available as a podcast edition. Eric joins Larry for an emotional interview and talked about his new book and cd. Watch the The Larry King Podcast interview with Eric Clapton here...

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.

Eric Clapton is to appear on The South Bank Show, for the first time in twenty years, this December. Interviewed once again by South Bank Show host Melvyn Bragg, Clapton chats at length about conquering his addiction with alcohol which was at it's peak at the time of their first meeting. The filmed interview also sees Clapton talk frankly about his family, the death of his son, the intensity of his relationships with other great guitarists and with women, his influences and his most moving songs - and how he has now finally found peace. The show which airs on ITV1 on December 2, will also include rare and exclusive performance footage.

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.

Eric Clapton's long-awaited autobiography book hit shelves on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007. To talk about his autobiography Eric was interviewed on several U.S. television shows. If you missed the Larry King interview, don't worry you can read the full transcription by clicking on the link below: CNN LARRY KING LIVE...

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.

Tonight (Friday 12 October 2007) at 9 PM CT CNN will broadcast an interview with Eric Clapton on Larry King Live. You can watch a preview of the interview on this site: http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

In this video Eric Clapton talks about his autobiography and influences from Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Miles Davis....

Layla & Collaborations: In this exclusive interview clip, Clapton tells the real story behind one of his best-loved songs, 'Layla.'...

To promote his best of album "Complete Clapton" and his book "Clapton - The Autobiography", Eric appeared on NBC's Today Show. He was interviewed by Matt Lauer. Also before the segment Clapton was gracious enough to answer a few questions. Among the subjects discussed: which of his bands he wishes had stayed together longer, who he's listening to now, and which of his songs he'd put on his iPod.

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...

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

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...