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Eric Clapton (b. 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, and the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In Kermit the Frog's 1996 Advertising Parodies! calendar, Kermit the Frog parodied Clapton and his famous Eric Clapton Unplugged album cover as Kermit the Frog Unpigged. It is not to be confused with the cover for the Muppets' 1994 album Kermit Unpigged, which features a similar design.

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  • Image:5-clapton.jpg <====ATTENTION: Malgré les apparences, cet homme n'est pas Jésus. Merci de votre compréhension.
  • Eric Clapton (b. 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, and the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In Kermit the Frog's 1996 Advertising Parodies! calendar, Kermit the Frog parodied Clapton and his famous Eric Clapton Unplugged album cover as Kermit the Frog Unpigged. It is not to be confused with the cover for the Muppets' 1994 album Kermit Unpigged, which features a similar design.
  • Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born March 30, 1945) is an English blues rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer whose songs "Wonderful Tonight", "Knock on Wood", and "She's Waiting" appeared in the show Miami Vice, along with "Layla" by Derek and The Dominos, a band of which he was a prominent member.
  • Songs Cocain (1999)
  • Eric Clapton played Kingswood Music Theatre on Saturday, June 25, 1983, with The Kings.
  • Eric Clapton is a British/American musician specializing in Blues. He is frequently called "God" by his fans.
  • Eric Clapton is an English guitarist who occasionally played and recorded with members of The Beatles.
  • Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".
  • Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
  • Peel was a fan of the Yardbirds, John Mayall & The Bluebreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek And The Dominos, all bands of which Eric Clapton had been a member. After seeing Cream at London's Speakeasy club in 1967, Peel enthused about the band, and Clapton in particular, in his first Perfumed Garden column in International Times - "Clapton doing things with his machinery that you simply cannot do with a guitar untouched by magic" - and he continued to hold the guitarist in high estimation after Cream broke up. When Clapton went solo, Peel was initially enthusiastic about his material, with the man describing Eric Clapton's double LP as nearly indispensible on his show on 12 December 1970. On 16 August 1976, which was a record retrospective on Cream, Peel introduced the song "Blues Power"
  • Eric Patrick Clapton is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the only three-time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; once for his solo work and twice for his work with the bands Cream and The Yardbirds. He is the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and two of his most popular hits are "Layla", recorded with the band Derek and the Dominoes and a cover of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads". In 1991, after the death of his four year old son, he recorded the song "Tears In Heaven". He provides the singing voice of Moses in Animated Tales From The Bible.
  • Just call him Slowhand. Eric Clapton is one of those artists who can find great success in his solo efforts or as part of a band. He ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He's played a variety of genres, from blues to psychedelic to pop and even reggae numbers. His influence is felt across pop, blues, and rock, with multiple chart and critical successes.
  • Erich von Clapton was not really born, but just kind of was. By age 3 he had become court composer to King Franz Hapsberg of Austria, and impressed the king deeply by playing the solo from Layla on harpsichord and sackbutt simultaneously. The king was entranced and presented his young prodigy with 30 concubines and the deeds to a Dresden flour mill. Von Clapton responded with an a-capella drum solo on a theme by Handel, and the king immediately presented the boy-genius with 4 of his daughters and his 2nd-favourite son Prince Leopold Hapsberg.
  • Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st century, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo). Often viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Eric Clapton was ranked 4th in Rolling Stone’s list of The Greatest Guitarists of All Time and #53 on their list of the The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
  • Eric Patrick Clapton, , (born 1945) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009
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