Eric Clapton "Motherless Child" - Biografie – Scott Paul (2016)

The biography 'Motherless Child' depicts Eric Clapton as one of the most influential artists of his generation, a living music legend, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. It contains previously unpublished details from his complicated yet fascinating life gathered from close friends and collaborators. The book follows Clapton's more than fifty-year career from his beginnings in the Yardbirds, through collaborations with John Mayall, the fame of the supergroup Cream, the bands Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos, to his solo career. Clapton always saw himself as a solitary blues player, a man with a guitar against the whole world. Blues remained a constant for him, the core from which he emerged. He was the chosen one to continue the tradition of the music of the old bluesmen from the Mississippi Delta. Paul Scott also focuses on Clapton's private life, where his extraordinary talent intertwined with incomprehensible self-destruction. He never hid his struggles with drugs and alcohol, nor his bohemian lifestyle, which several times brought him to the brink of death. However, without the occasional personal falls, he could never have climbed to the musical Olympus and gained the recognition of millions of fans around the world. His story can thus also be read as a long but successful journey to...