Producer Tom Dowd said the classic live recording may have been edited down from a much longer performance — but even Clapton ...

The guitar was auctioned – alongside his Cream-era Cherry Red ES-335 – in 2004 to support the Crossroads rehabilitation ...

Eric Clapton says he made a “big, big mistake” selling two of the most important guitars of his career, even though he sold ...

Over the weekend in Austin, some of the last half-century's greatest living guitarists convened at Eric Clapton's Crossroads ...

Eric Clapton’s deeply personal “Tears in Heaven” went from a Rush soundtrack song to a greatest soft rock classic.

Eric Clapton headlined the second and final night of his Crossroads Guitar Festival, the long-running benefit show he staged ...

Eric Clapton loves a lot of music, but one band particularly appealed to him, so much so that he said "it became my drug", and changed his career.

“His roadie came by the house and said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’” ...

With his career ongoing, there are few milestones Eric Clapton hasn’t crossed. He might have sold over 100 million albums as a solo artist, but that was just the start. He also performed in groups ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It has only been a little more than a year since Eric Clapton ...

Eric Clapton opened his U.S. fall tour in Detroit on September 6 by playing “Give Me Strength,” a track off 1974’s 461 Ocean Boulevard that he hadn’t performed live since a 1975 tour stop in Kansas ...

Sure, Elvis Presley might have inspired a lot of people, but as a guitarist, Eric Clapton was more enamoured with this blues ...