Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton is a rock musician whose career has been going on since the sixties. He was first a member of The Yardbirds, then Cream, then Blind Faith, then Derek and the Dominos before going solo. Clapton is considered one of the greatest blues musicians of all time. Throughout his career, both with his bands and solo, he has garnered numerous hit singles and bestselling albums. His solo album Unplugged is a collection of acoustic versions of past songs. It is an enormous bestseller and contains the most popular version of Layla, a song he previously released with the Dominos in hard rock form. Clapton is the only artist to be inducted into the actual Hall of Fame three times. He was inducted with the Yardbirds, with Cream, and as a solo artist. Rod Stewart would have as well if they had inducted The Jeff Beck Group instead of just Jeff Beck. Clapton appears in The Who film Tommy. Clapton ventured into reggae by covering the Bob Marley hit I Shot the Sheriff. His version went gold. His song Tears in Heaven was written after his four-year-old child fell out of the window of their 53rd story apartment to his death. It won three Grammys and went platinum. The song Wonderful Tonight was written about supermodel Pattie Boyd, with whom he was in love. Clapton collaborated with Tina Turner.