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 gospel tune that includes recorded versions dating back to the ...

Eric Clapton ... his career has given Clapton, 71, a spotty catalog, but he has racked up so many good songs that it’s easy to forgive the lesser ones. Here are his Top 20 songs, from his ...

Eric Clapton is recognized as one of the ... Later, as part of bands like Cream or as a solo artist, Clapton released beloved songs that rocketed up the Billboard charts.

Throughout the decades, no guitarist has been more prominent in the world of music than Eric Clapton. First as a member of highly influential bands like The Yardbirds, Blind Faith and Cream and ...

In July 1974, Eric Clapton released his second ... The album was made up mostly of cover tunes, although Clapton contributed two self-penned originals songs, and co-wrote another with singer ...

Credit: Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Of all the songs in Eric Clapton’s extensive repertoire, Tears in Heaven is perhaps the most moving – and certainly one of the best known.

If there’s one song Eric Clapton probably wished he’d never written ... it is unique in my experience of writing songs.” Clapton himself, in 1993, recalled being bullish about the task: “The timing ...