Eric Clapton has won 18 Grammy Awards and is a three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Eric Clapton has won 18 Grammy Awards and is a three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall ...

For whatever reason, iconic musicians always seem to develop nicknames. Perhaps it’s because their names are thrown around so much that people want an alternative to use. If the musician is really a ...

Eric Clapton's new live film and album are headed for the home market this fall. The movie is arriving simultaneously on a variety of formats and configurations, including DVD/two-CD and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Slowhand returns to the Blues Albums chart this week in America.

Among music book scribes, Philip Norman stands near the top in terms of influence and skill. His 1981 Beatles tome Shout! set the stage for the modern rock bio (as well as dirty up a bit the clean ...

Slowhand came at a crucial point in Eric Clapton’s career. After more than a decade as rock’s reigning guitar god, the 32-year-old Cream and Derek and the Dominos leader had just released two ...

“We had chords and a structure, but I didn’t have a song,” Eric Clapton says of the genesis of “Spiral,” an original blues on his new album, I Still Do. One day, his producer Glyn Johns, who “was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Eric Clapton returns to one of Billboard’s genre-specific rankings ...

Eric Clapton recently celebrated his 70th birthday with a series of performances marking the milestone. That included a seven-night stretch at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, an event the guitarist ...

The guitarist’s disastrous personal life, rather than his music, is to the fore in Philip Norman’s new biography “Get the wogs out! Get the coons out! Keep Britain white!” Not an exhortation from an ...

Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed Slowhand ...