Reuters - Dec 1, 2009
Having reprised their live collaboration in Tokyo earlier this year, guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck have added three North American concert dates to their plans for February. The artists will...
More »AP - Oct 27, 2009
Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York after undergoing gallstone surgery. Kristen Foster, a publicist for the guitarist, said Tuesday that Clapton...
More »Reuters - Feb 27, 2008
It took nearly 40 years, but the supergroup Blind Faith returned to Madison Square Garden on Monday night for the first of a three-night stand. Well, OK, it was really just Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood...
More »AP - Feb 26, 2008
LONDON (AP) North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the communist state, a diplomat at the country s embassy in London said. The diplomat confirmed...
More »Reuters - Feb 26, 2008
North Korea invited guitar legend Eric Clapton to play in its capital, the communist country's embassy in London said on Tuesday as the New York Philharmonic gave a historic performance in the hermit...
More »E! Online - Feb 26, 2008
Eric Clapton may be going where no rocker has gone before: North Korea. The government of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il has extended a special invitation for old Slowhand to perform...
More »Reuters - Nov 13, 2007
After a rare on-stage reunion at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in July, former Blind Faith members Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood will team for three shows early next year at Madison Square Garden....
More »AP - Oct 15, 2007
Back in the 1960s, when London graffiti proclaimed Clapton is God, the brilliant British guitarist was descending into a personal hell. Eric Clapton traded a heroin addiction for alcoholism, suffered...
More »AP - Oct 13, 2007
Pattie Boyd is the A-list musicians muse. A convent schoolgirl turned swinging London fashion model, Boyd was married to Beatle George Harrison, then to guitar god Eric Clapton and the relationships...
More »Reuters - Jun 22, 2007
It's almost as familiar as the Weather Channel's man-on-the-beach, Jim Cantore: the music that plays in the background six times per hour during the network's signature Local on the 8s....
More »AP - May 24, 2007
Jack Bruce says Cream is once again rising to the top. The bassist for the legendary rock group told The Associated Press on Thursday that he agreed recently to play an unspecified show or shows later...
More »Reuters - Apr 16, 2007
Some of the biggest names in rock music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private memorial in New York on Tuesday for their late...
More »AP - Mar 29, 2007
Eric Clapton is having a jam session with more than a dozen of his favorite guitar-playing pals, and everyone is invited. Clapton s Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled July 28 in the Chicago suburb...
More »Reuters - Mar 23, 2007
The Allman Brothers Band is back at New York's Beacon Theater this week for its annual residency, a stand which guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes promises will be full of special guests and plenty...
More »AP - Mar 12, 2007
I want it! squealed 13-year-old Hiiaka Kaneao, pointing to a sparkly, hot pink, star-shaped bass guitar hanging inside a pink fur-lined booth. Her high-pitched voice is music to the ears of the guitar...
More »E! Online - Feb 28, 2007
Trey Anastasio is down with disease. And he s doing everything in his power to get better. The ex-Phish guitarist pleaded not guilty Tuesday in upstate New York to a slew of new drug charges stemming...
More »AP - Jan 5, 2007
Eric Clapton will perform in Shanghai later this month, the latest rock legend to take the stage in China s business and entertainment hub. Clapton, 61, will appear Jan. 20 at the Shanghai Grand Stage...
More »E! Online - Jan 3, 2007
If you were to line them up according to their new royal assignations, Rod Stewart would outrank Hugh Laurie, but the good doctor has one up on the Beatles. Stewart was named a Commander of the...
More »Reuters - Dec 31, 2006
We know that the Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007. But there is always a dark horse that rises seemingly out of nowhere...
More »Reuters - Dec 10, 2006
Don Bernstine travels the world visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends tens of thousands of dollars of his employer s money buying guitars, concert costumes and other music memorabilia...
More »Reuters - Dec 8, 2006
Don Bernstine travels the world visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends tens of thousands of dollars of his employer s money buying guitars, concert costumes and other music memorabilia...
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