Complete Clapton Album & The Autobiography Book
The Ultimate Career Retrospective
Complete Clapton, 2CD & Clapton - The Autobiography Book
Album & Book available October 9, 2007
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.
Complete Clapton, 2CD
Clapton's career has endured for more than 40 years, resulting in 18 Grammy Awards and he has earned the distinct honor of being the only triple inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Considered one of the world's finest guitarists, Clapton was a member of such seminal rock bands as Cream and Blind Faith, both featured on the album. He also created countless hits as part of his solo career beginning in 1970 with the release of the self-titled Eric Clapton album following through to 2005's Back Home. Complete Clapton also features songs from two co-produced albums, Riding With the King, a collaboration with iconic blues man BB King, and The Road To Escondido, a partnership with long time friend and guitar great J.J. Cale.
Track Listings "Complete Clapton"
Disc: 1
1. I Feel Free: Cream
2. Sunshine of Your Love: Cream
3. White Room: Cream
4. Crossroads: Cream
5. Badge: Cream
6. Presence of the Lord: Blind Faith
7. After Midnight
8. Let It Rain
9. Bell Bottom Blues
10. Layla
11. Let It Grow
12. I Shot the Sheriff
13. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
14. Hello Old Friend
15. Cocaine
16. Lay Down Sally
17. Wonderful Tonight
18. Promises
19. I Can't Stand It
Disc: 2
1. I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart
2. She's Waiting
3. Forever Man
4. It's in the Way That You Use It
5. Miss You
6. Pretending
7. Bad Love
8. Tears in Heaven
9. Layla Unplugged
10. Running on Faith (Unplugged)
11. Motherless Child
12. Change the World
13. My Father's Eyes
14. Riding With the King
15. Sweet Home Chicago
16. If I Had Possession Over Judgment
17. Ride the River
Clapton - The Autobiography Book
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant 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.
Recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential guitarists in rock history, Clapton is a sixteen-time Grammy® winner and the only triple inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of both the Yardbirds and Cream and as a solo artist).
In Clapton - The Autobiography, he chronicles his rise in the music world from his first taste of fame with the Yardbirds to the stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers that inspired fans to scrawl "Clapton Is God" on walls in London and New York. It continues through the various other groups including Cream, the preeminent rock trio of the sixties, the "super group" Blind Faith, and Derek And The Dominos, to Clapton ultimately finding his own voice as a solo performer. He also tells tales of hanging out with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, and working as a guest musician with notable groups such as the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
Woven into Clapton's tale of incredible commercial and artistic successes is a much more personal narrative. From unvarnished accounts of his deeply drug-addicted and hard-drinking years, to reflections on his failed marriage to George Harrison's ex-wife Pattie Boyd (who years earlier had inspired "Layla," Clapton's classic ballad of unrequited love), and the devastating impact of the accidental death of his four-year-old son in 1991, Clapton describes his tumultuous life with striking honesty.
A rare self-portrait of a cultural icon, Clapton - The Autobiography offers his legions of admirers unprecedented access to the man behind the legend. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
Eric Clapton is married to Melia McEnery and is the father of four daughters. He lives outside London.
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