John Mayall and Eric Clapton were both relatively well known when they joined up for an album on July 22, 1966. But Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton took both artists' careers to new levels and set ...

Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

Here’s a look at the best of the songs that even now continue to define his legacy. It starts with Derek and the Dominos because the songs on “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” are more of a piece ...

The opening song on Clapton's second solo album -- and a No. 1 LP, thanks to the hit single "I Shot the Sheriff" (see No. 6 on our list of the Top 10 Eric Clapton Songs) -- is a cover of a traditional ...

Summer 1965. An Immediate records session at Decca studios, 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, North London. Men wearing white lab coats over shirts and ties, their hair neatly trimmed, stand ...

Legendary British blues musician John Mayall has died at the age of 90 at his home in California. Mayall's band the Bluesbreakers was a key training ground for legendary artists like Eric Clapton and ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As forced nuptials go, the union between Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton on their new live album is a joyful one. Just don't expect a marriage of equals, since the ...

In the same way that Louis Armstrong was at center of the genesis of Jazz in the 1920s, so was Eric Clapton at the center of the British Blues invasion of the 1960s. Between 1965 and 1970, in turn, ...