Eric Clapton in TopGuitar

“Clapton is God” – a famous writing on the streets of London that in a way defined the future of Eric Clapton as a guitarist and musician. How did Clapton himself relate to the pressure of the crowd that dubbed him a guitar virtuoso?

Life of most artists, including those most famous ones, is not all peaches and cream. This was definitely the case with Slowhand who described his addictions and difficult relations with family and other people in an unusually honest autobiography a few years ago. Luckily, he always had music at hand to help him through the hardest moments. And the other way round, those difficult experiences often gave birth to beautiful songs.

“Eric Clapton – a hard life of the God of Guitar” – an article by Mateusz Stelmasiak featured in the May edition of TopGuitar magazine (TG 5/2013).