| Desc: While Eric Clapton has achieved superstar status in the world of music, his personal life has often been a stormy one. In the mid-1960s Clapton was hailed as England's premier guitar hero for his incendiary contributions to the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. However, he struggled to find an artistic direction after the 1968 breakup of the supergroup Cream, the band he had formed with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker in 1966, and for some years was an alcohol and heroin addict. Despite the combination of this and a tumultuous love life, he had great commercial success with a succession of solo albums over the next two decades. CROSSROADS, Michael Schumacher's expertly researched and chattily written biography, focuses equally on the guitarist's personal and professional life, recounting Clapton's tragedies and triumphs, from the death of his son Conor to the success of 1991's UNPLUGGED album. Including valuable album-by-album analysis of Clapton's recorded output, Schumacher traces his musical development from the callow blues enthusiast of the early '60s to rock & roll elder statesman, with the help of revealing and informative interviews with many of the artist's former musical associates. |
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