Name	Yokohama
Official name	横浜市 · City of Yokohama
Native name	横浜
Native name lang	ja
Settlement type	Designated city
Map caption	Location of Yokohama in Kanagawa
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Subdivision name1	Kantō
Subdivision type2	Prefecture
Subdivision name2	Kanagawa
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Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Fumiko Hayashi
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Area total km2	437.35
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Population total	3654427
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Website	City of Yokohama

() is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.

Yokohama's population of 3.6 million makes it Japan's largest incorporated city.

Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century, and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.

History

Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the feudal Edo period, when Japan held a policy of national seclusion, having little contact with foreigners. A major turning point in Japanese history happened in 1853–54, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, demanding that Japan open several ports for commerce, and the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity.

It was initially agreed that one of the ports to be opened to foreign ships would be the bustling town of Kanagawa-juku (in what is now Kanagawa Ward) on the Tōkaidō, a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka. However, the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tōkaidō for comfort, and port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama. The Port of Yokohama was opened on 2 June 1859.

, officers, and men of the squadron to meet the Imperial commissioners at Yokohama 14 July 1853. Lithograph by Sarony & Co., 1855, after Wilhelm Heine.]]

Yokohama quickly became the base of foreign trade in Japan. Japan's first English language newspaper, the Japan Herald, was first published there in 1861. Foreigners occupied a district of the city called "Kannai" (, "inside the barrier"), which was surrounded by a moat, and were protected by their extraterritorial status both within and outside the moat. Many individuals crossed the moat, causing a number of problems. The Namamugi Incident, one of the events that preceded the downfall of the shogunate, took place in what is now Tsurumi Ward in 1862; Ernest Satow described it in A Diplomat in Japan.

After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the port was developed for trading silk, the main trading partner being Great Britain. Many Western influences first reached Japan in Yokohama, including Japan's first daily newspaper (1870) and first gas-powered street lamps (1872). Japan's first railway was constructed in the same year to connect Yokohama to Shinagawa and Shinbashi in Tokyo. In the same year, Jules Verne set Yokohama, which he had never visited, in an episode of his widely-read Around the World in Eighty Days, capturing the atmosphere of a fast-developing, Western-oriented Japanese city.

In 1887, a British merchant, Samuel Cocking, built the city's first power plant. At first for his own use, this coal-burning plant became the basis for the Yokohama Cooperative Electric Light Company. The city was officially incorporated on 1 April 1889. By the time the extraterritoriality of foreigner areas was abolished in 1899, Yokohama was the most international city in Japan, with foreigner areas stretching from Kannai to the Bluff area and the large Yokohama Chinatown.

The early 20th century was marked by rapid growth of industry. Entrepreneurs built factories along reclaimed land to the north of the city toward Kawasaki, which eventually grew to be the Keihin Industrial Area. The growth of Japanese industry brought affluence, and many wealthy trading families constructed sprawling residences there, while the rapid influx of population from Japan and Korea also led to the formation of Kojiki-Yato, then the largest slum in Japan.

Much of Yokohama was destroyed on 1 September 1923 by the Great Kantō earthquake. The Yokohama police reported casualties at 30,771 dead and 47,908 injured, out of a pre-earthquake population of 434,170. Fuelled by rumours of rebellion and sabotage, vigilante mobs thereupon murdered many Koreans in the Kojiki-yato slum. Many people believed that Koreans used black magic to cause the earthquake. Martial law was in place until 19 November. Rubble from the quake was used to reclaim land for parks, the most famous being the Yamashita Park on the waterfront which opened in 1930.

Yokohama was rebuilt, only to be destroyed again by thirty-odd U.S. air raids during World War II. An estimated seven or eight thousand people were killed in a single morning on 29 May 1945 in what is now known as the Great Yokohama Air Raid, when B-29s firebombed the city and in just one hour and nine minutes reduced 42% of it to rubble. |- | 1985 || 2,992,926 || 1st |- | 1990 || 3,220,331 || 1st |- | 1995 || 3,307,136 || 1st |- | 2000 || 3,426,651 || 1st |- | 2005 || 3,579,133 || 1st |- | 2009 || 3,670,669 || 1st |}

Yokohama's foreign population of nearly 78,000 includes Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and Brazilians.

Climate

Yokohama features a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summers and chilly, but not very cold, winters. Winter temperatures rarely drop below freezing, while summer can get quite warm due to humidity effects.

Sports

Baseball: Yokohama BayStars

Football: (J. League Division 1), (J. League Division 2)

Economy

The city has a strong economic base, especially in the shipping, biotechnology, and semiconductor industries. Nissan moved its headquarters to Yokohama from Chūō, Tokyo in 2010.

Transport

Yokohama is serviced by the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, a high-speed rail line with a stop at Shin-Yokohama Station. Yokohama Station is also a major station, with two million passengers daily. The Yokohama Municipal Subway provides metro services.

Places of interest

The historic port area is Kannai. Next to the waterfront Yamashita Park is Yokohama Marine Tower, the tallest inland lighthouse in the world. Further inland lies Yokohama Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in Japan and one of the largest in the world. Nearby is Yokohama Stadium, the Silk Center, and the Yokohama Doll Museum. The Isezakichō and Noge areas offer many colourful shops and bars that, with their restaurants and stores catering to residents from China, Thailand, South Korea, and other countries, have an increasingly international flavour.

The small but fashionable Motomachi shopping area leads up to Yamate, or "The Bluff" as it used to be known, a 19th/early 20th century Westerners' settlement overlooking the harbour, scattered with foreigners' mansions. A foreigners' cemetery and the Harbour View Park (, Minato no mieru oka kōen) is in the area. Within the park are a rose garden and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature.

There are various points of interest in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 harbourside redevelopment. The highlights are the Landmark Tower which is the tallest building in Japan, Queen's Square Yokohama (a shopping mall) and the Cosmo Clock 21, which was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world when it was built in 1989 and which also doubles as "the world's biggest clock".

The Shin-Yokohama district, where the Shinkansen station is located, is some distance away from the harbour area, and features the 17,000 capacity Yokohama Arena, the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum, and Nissan Stadium, known as the International Stadium Yokohama when it was the setting for the final for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

The city is home to the Central League baseball team, the Yokohama BayStars, and the soccer teams, Yokohama F. Marinos and Yokohama F.C.

Sankei-en is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward. Designed by businessman Tomitaro Hara, it contains seventeen old buildings brought from all over Japan, ten of which have been declared Important National Cultural Properties.

Politics and government

The Yokohama Municipal Assembly consists of 92 members elected from 18 Wards. The LDP has minority control with 30 seats with Democratic Party of Japan with a close 29. The mayor is Fumiko Hayashi, who succeeded Hiroshi Nakada in September 2009.

Wards

Yokohama has 18 wards (ku): {| |- |valign=top| Aoba-ku () Asahi-ku () Hodogaya-ku () Isogo-ku () Izumi-ku () Kanagawa-ku () Kanazawa-ku () Kōhoku-ku () Kōnan-ku () |valign=top| Midori-ku () Minami-ku () Naka-ku () - administrative center Nishi-ku () Sakae-ku () Seya-ku () Totsuka-ku () Tsurumi-ku () Tsuzuki-ku () |}

Railway stations

; East Japan Railway Company : Tōkaidō Main Line :* - - - : Yokosuka Line :* - Yokohama - - - Totsuka - : Keihin-Tōhoku Line :* - - - - Yokohama : Negishi Line :* Yokohama - - - - - - - - - - - : Yokohama Line :* Higashi-Kanagawa - - - - - - - - - : Nambu Line :* - - : Tsurumi Line :* Main Line : Tsurumi - - - - - - :* Umi-Shibaura Branch : Asano - - ; Central Japan Railway Company : Tōkaidō Shinkansen :* - Shin-Yokohama - ; Keihin Electric Express Railway : Keikyū Main Line :* - - - - - - - - - - Yokohama - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Zushi Line :* Kanazawa-Hakkei - - ; Tokyu Corporation : Tōyoko Line :* - - - - Kikuna - - - - - Yokohama : Meguro Line :* - Hiyoshi : Den-en-toshi Line :* - - - - - - - - Nagatsuta - : Kodomonokuni Line :* Nagatsuta - - ; Sagami Railway : Sagami Railway Main Line :* Yokohama - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Izumino Line :* Futamatagawa - - - - - - - ; Yokohama Minatomirai Railway : Minatomirai Line :* Yokohama - - - - - ; Yokohama City Transportation Bureau : Blue Line :* - - - - - Totsuka - - - - - Kami-Ōoka - - - - - - Kannai - Sakuragichō - - Yokohama - - - - - Shin-Yokohama - - - - - - - : Green Line :* Nakayama - - - Center Minami - Center Kita - - - - - Hiyoshi ; Yokohama New Transit : Kanazawa Seaside Line :* Shin-Sugita - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kanazawa-Hakkei

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Yokohama has sister-city relationships with these eight cities worldwide: {| cellpadding="10" |- valign="top" | Constanţa, Romania Lyon, France Manila, Philippines Mumbai, India || Odessa, Ukraine San Diego, United States Shanghai, China Vancouver, Canada |}

Education

Public elementary and middle schools are operated by the city of Yokohama. There are nine public high schools which are operated by the Yokohama City Board of Education, and a number of public high schools which are operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education.

In fiction

Two successful Godzilla films feature Yokohama: Godzilla vs. Mothra and .

The main setting of James Clavell's book Gai-Jin is in historical Yokohama.

The Pretty Cure anime movie is set at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Port of Yokohama.

References

Bibliography

Hammer, Joshua (2006). Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-743-26465-5 (cloth).

Heilbrun, Jacob. "Aftershocks". The New York Times, September 17, 2006.

Notes

External links

Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau Yokohama's international magazine website

"At the Future Port", by Vinod Jacob (a travel report). The Hindu Business Line, 6 July 2007.

Yokohama guide in Pictures—Minato Mirai, Chinatown, Yamashita park, Sakuragicho, Stadium, Cosmo World

Yokohama harbor, Marine survey chart (published 1874), Digital Gallery, National Archives of Japan

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Name	Ryōsuke Yamada山田 涼介
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Ryōsuke Yamada
Born	May 09, 1993
Origin	Tokyo, Japan
Height	163.5cm
Blood type	B
Genre	Japanese Pop
Occupation	Singer, Dancer, Actor, Talent, Pop Idol
Years active	August 12, 2004 - present
Label	Johnny & Associates
Associated acts	Hey! Say! JUMP, Hey! Say! 7 NYC Boys
Influences	Koichi Domoto (Kinki Kids)

is a Japanese tarento: actor, singer, dancer and a member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates and currently resides in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Career

On August 12, 2004, when he was in the 5th grade (age 11), Ryosuke appeared on the variety show Ya-ya-yah, where his audition for Johnny and Associates was aired.

In July 2006, Yamada got his first role in a TV drama, Tantei Gakuen Q Special.

In April 2007, he was chosen to be a member of the temporary unit Hey! Say! 7, which made his CD debut on August 1, when their single "Hey! Say!" was released. Between July and September of 2007, Tantei Gakuen Q became a TV drama series and Yamada played the same role he did in the Special that aired in 2006.

From September 24, 2007, Yamada began performing as a member of Hey! Say! JUMP, making his debut on November 14 .

From January to March 2008 Yamada was in the third episode of the drama series, One-Pound Gospel, as Mukoda Katsumi, with Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN) and Hey! Say! JUMP member Yuri Chinen. On April 12 of that year Yamada was in the drama, Sensei wa erai! along with fellow Hey! Say! JUMP members Yuto Nakajima, Yuri Chinen and Daiki Arioka. He played Gunjou Hayato. On June 14, Yamada played Furuhata Ninzaburo in the drama Furuhata Chuugakusei.

In October 2008, Yamada was in the drama series Scrap Teacher: Kyoushi Saisei as Takasugi Toichi, along with Hey! Say! JUMP members that appeared with him in Sensei wa erai!.

In June 2009, Yamada became the leader of a temporary group NYC Boys with Yuri Chinen and Yuma Nakayama w/B.I.Shadow as a supporter for the Japanese Volleyball Team for the FIVB World Grand Prix 2009. Their single "NYC/Akuma na Koi" hit the #1 position on the billboard charts.

On August 29 of that year, Yamada played Yuji Kawai in the drama Niini no koto Wasurenaide.

On October 3, 2009, he starred as the lead role in Hidarime Tantei EYE SP playing the role of Ainosuke Tanaka.

On October 17, 2009, it was announced that Hey! Say! JUMP member Yamada Ryosuke will play his first lead role in the upcoming drama series '左目探偵EYE / Hidari-me Tantei EYE [lit. 'Left-eyed Detective EYE']' to be broadcast from January 2010.

On March 2, 2010, an official press release made by Johnny and Associates revealed that Yamada and Chinen will be debuting for the second time as NYC. They will be working as a member of both Hey! Say! JUMP and NYC, which is a rarity in their talent agency. Ryo Nishikido was the first such case of a Johnny's talent officially debuting in two groups (Kanjani8 and NEWS) making Yamada and Chinen the second instance of such a case.

Johnny's Jr. groups participated in

J.J.Express (January 2006 - September 2007)

J.J.Express Chibikko Team (January - September, 2007)

Kitty Jr. (July 2006 - March 2007)

Hey! Say! 7 (Temporary Unit) (April - September 2007)

Hey! Say! 7 (September 2007–Present)

Hey! Say! JUMP (September 2007–Present)

NYC boys (June 2009 – Present)

NYC (March 2010 – present)

Project Units

Takaki Yuya to Nakamatachi (2008)

Futari no Ryosuke-kun (2005)

Solo songs

Perfume

Asia no Yoru

Moonlight

Duets

Stars in Heaven ft Yuri Chinen (song is also known as "Future Earth" or "Mirai no Chikyu ni Mukatte")

Appearances

Merengue no Kimochi (with Yuri Chinen, NTV, October 11, 2008)

Vainilla (with Yuri Chinen, August 15, 2009)

VS Arashi (with Yuri Chinen, Fuji TV, August 15, 2009)

Dasshutsu Game DERO! (with Yuri Chinen, December 8, 2010)

Tensai! Shimura Doubutsuen (NTV, December 18, 2010)

For Hey! Say! 7 or Hey! Say! JUMP-related appearances, please see Hey! Say! JUMP.

Dramas

Tantei Gakuen Q SP (July 1, 2006, NTV) as Amakusa Ryuu (Lead Role)

Tantei Gakuen Q (July 3 - September 11, 2007, NTV) as Amakusa Ryuu (Lead Role) One-Pound Gospel (January 12, 2008 - March 9, 2008, NTV) as Mukoda Katsumi (Supporting role)

Sensei wa Erai! SP (April 12, 2008, NTV) as Gunjou Hayato (Lead Role)

Furuhata Chuugakusei SP (June 14, 2008, Fuji TV) as Furuhata Ninzaburo (Lead Role)

Scrap Teacher: Kyoushi Saisei (October - , 2008, NTV) as Takasugi Toichi (Lead Role)

Niini no koto Wasurenaide (August 29, 2009, NTV) as Yuji Kawai (Supporting Role)

Hidarime Tantei Eye Special (October 3, 2009, NTV) - Ainosuke Tanaka (Lead Role)

Hidarime Tantei Eye (January - March, 2010, NTV) - Ainosuke Tanaka (Lead Role)

Variety shows

Ya-Ya-yah (2004–2007, TV Tokyo)

The Shōnen Club (2004–present, NHK)

YOUtachi (October 2006 - October 2007, NTV)

Heisei Families (October 2007 - March 2008, NTV)* Hyakushiki~Hyaku de shiru hitotsu no chishiki~ (October 2007 - March 2008, FujiTV)

Shikūkan☆Sedaibatoru Showa × Heisei SHOW wa Hey! Say! (April 2008 - March 2009, NTV)

School Kakumei! (April 2009–present, NTV)

Music video

Seishun Amigo (Shuuji to Akira) (2005)

Venus (Tackey & Tsubasa) (2006)

Fever to Future (Kitty GYM) (2006)

Concerts

SUMMARY (Summer 2010)

Hey! Say! JUMP 2010 TEN JUMP Concert (April and May 2010)

Hey! Say! JUMP Winter Tour (09-10)

Hey! Say! JUMP Tengoku Concert (summer 2009)

Hey! Say! JUMP-ing Tour (08-09)

SUMMARY (Summer 2008)

Hey! Say! JUMP Tokyo Dome Debut Concert (December 22, 2007)

Johnny's Jr. Hey Say 07 in YOKOHAMA ARENA (September 23, 24, 2007)

Johnny's Jr. no Daiboken!@Meridian (August 15–24, 2007)

Tour 2007 cartoon KAT-TUN II You (April 3 - June 17, 2007)

News Concert Tour 2007 (February 17 - April 15, 2007)

2007 Kingashinnen Akemashite omedetou Johnny's Jr. Daishugou (January 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 2007)

Tackey&Tsubasa; Christmas concert 2006“2wo you 4our you”(December 17–24, 2006)

youtachi no ongaku daiundokai (September 30, October 1, 2006)

Johnny's Jr. no Daiboken! (August 15–26, 2006)

Hideaki Takizawa 2005 concert~arigato 2005nen sayonara~ (December 23–25, 2005)

Looking KAT-TUN 2005ing (August 26–28, 2005)

Johnnys Theater SUMMARY Digest (July 29 - September 4, 2005)

Looking 05 Kat-Tun (May 29 - June 26, 2005)

Ya-Ya-yah Haruyasumi Yokohama Arena Concert (March 26, 2005)

Spring 05 Looking Kat-Tun (March 25–27, 2005)

KAT-TUN Live Kaizoku (December 28, 2004 - January 10, 2005)

Johnnys Theater “Summary”of Johnnys World (August 8–29, 2004)

Stage

Endless Shock (January - February 2005)

Dream Boys (January 2006)

Takizawa Enbujyo (March - April 2006)

One!-the history of Tackey- (September 2006)

Takizawa Kabuki (April - May 2010)

DVD

Endless Shock (Released on February 15, 2006)

Dream Boys (Released on June 28, 2006)

Takizawa Hideaki Arigato 2005nen Sayonara (Released on August 30, 2006)

Takizawa Enbujyo (Released on July 18, 2007)

One!-the history of Tackey- (Released on January 23, 2008)

One-Pound Gospel (Released on September 3, 2008)

Furuhata Chugakusei: Shougai Saisho no Jiken (Released on December 3, 2008)

Tantei Gakuen Q (Released on March 4, 2009)

Scrap Teacher ~Kyoushi Saisei~ (Released on April 22, 2009)

Niini no koto Wasurenaide (Released on October 28, 2009)

Hidarime Tantei Eye SP (Released on March 17, 2010)

Hidarime Tantei EYE (Released on May 26, 2010)

Serialization

Yamada Ryosuke Monogatari (December 2007 - February 2008, in Myojo)

Yamadas ( - Present, in Duet)

Nozokimi Tantei Eye (January 27, 2010 - , in Gekkan The Television)

Awards

Gained a total of 20 Jr. Awards in 2008 (which beat Jin Akanishi's record of 16 Jr. Awards and still holds this record)

;2007

Won the "Star Ranking Week of Sep.17 2007" in [TV Guide]

Won the "Most Popular Actor Award 2007" in [Myojo]

;2008

Won the "Star Ranking Week of Jan.9 2008" in [TV Guide]

Won the "Most Popular Actor Award 2008" in [Myojo] - Two years in a row

Won the "Most Ideal Lover" of the 14th Jr.Award 2008 in [Myojo]

Won the "Best Photo of the Year Award 2008" in [Myojo]

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award 2008" in [Duet]

Won the "The Cutest Male Idol" in [anan]

Won the "Star Ranking Week of Dec.3 2008" in [TV Guide]

Won the "Drama Of The Year 2008 Male Actor Award" in [TVnavi]

;2009

Won the "Best Photo of the Year 2009 Award" in [Myojo] - Two years in a row

Won the "No.1 Favorite Male Celebrity Award" in [Nicola]

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award" in the Hey!Say!JUMP Ranking 2009 in [Myojo]

Won the "Best Actor Award 2009" in [TVnavi]

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award 2009" in [Duet] - Two years in a row

Won the "Favorite U-21 Male Celebrity Award" in [anan]

Won the "Most Ideal Celebrity Lover 2009" in [Nicola]

Won the "Most Ideal Big brother 2009" in [Nicola]

Won the "Most Popular Actor Award 2009" in [Myojo] - Three years in a row

;2010

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award" in the Entertainment Raking 2010 in [Nicola]

Won the "Best Photo of the Year MVP 2010 Award" in [Myojo]

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award" in the Hey!Say!JUMP Ranking 2010 in [Myojo] - Two years in a row

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award" in the Renai Grandprix 2010 in [Myojo]

Won the "Sexiest Male Celebrity" in the Renai Grandprix 2010 in [Myojo]

Won the "Best Actor Award 2010" in [Myojo] - Four years in a row

Won the "Most Ideal Lover Award 2010" in [Duet]

References

External links

Johnny's Net

Category:1993 births Category:Johnny's Entertainment Category:Japanese male singers Category:Living people Category:Hey! Say! JUMP members

Name	Takako Uehara
Background	solo_singer
Birth name
Born	January 14, 1983
Origin	Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan
Instrument	Vocals, Piano,
Genre	Japanese Pop, R&B;
Occupation	Singer, Actress, Model
Years active	1995 — Present
Label	Toys Factory1996— 2001Sonic Groove 2002 — present
Url	Avex Uehara Takako

(born January 14, 1983) is a Jpop singer. She is a member of the group Speed. Uehara was born in Okinawa, Japan.

Her highly anticipated first solo single 'My First Love' was released in January 1999, and was produced by legendary Jpop superstar Ryuichi Kawamura (of Luna Sea). "My First Love" was the beginning of a prosperous collaboration between Uehara and Kawamura. The single itself was very successful and topped the charts selling over 500,000 copies. The promotional video along with the cover and leaflet photos for 'My First Love' were all shot on location in Hawaii. Uehara followed up with her second and third singles, 'Come Close to Me' and 'My Greatest Memories'. In July 2000 following the disbandment of Speed, she became the first member of the group to release a solo album: My First Wing.

After Speed, Uehara continued with a moderately successful solo career as well as acting in various TV dramas. Takako is also a highly sought after model endorsing many famous brands such as Shiseido mainly on Proudia & Tsubaki Shampoo, Dunlop Tyres, NTT DoCoMo, FujiFilm FinePix Camera, SAGAWA, FamilyMart, KC Card, Meiji Chocolate, NEC FOMA and other food & beverages. Her most popular campaign was when she teamed up with Vivian Hsu to promote Shiseido's 'Proudia' range of products aimed at the more youthful market.

Uehara has also been a favorite pinup model among teenage men. She has released three photobooks. The first being '17' which was released in the year 2000. Her second photobook was Vingt Takako (Vingt means 20 in French). Vingt Takako was extremely controversial as the book contained many semi-nude and erotic shots of her - some containing rather explicit poses. This book upset and surprised many of her loyal fans as she has often came across as being really innocent. However, Uehara assured that the photos were tastefully done and shot on location in France by an all female crew. Uehara's third photobook Veintitres (meaning 23 in Spanish) was of similar nature to Vingt Takako but contained less daring photos of her. Veintitres was shot on location in Mexico, this time with a mixed crew. The photobook contained a bonus 'making of DVD'. Uehara's has a special preference for her photographs to be taken with minimal make-up and cpu touch-up/alterations. In essence her pictures tend contain a rather ambivalent tone to them in which she tends to come across rather natural/pale looking.

Uehara was selected by Taiwanese singer, Leehom Wang, to be the female lead for his music video, 'Heartbeat'. This is the 1st collaboration between the both of them.

Releases

Singles

# "my first love" (1999-03-25) # "Come close to me" (1999-09-29) # "my greatest memories" (2000-04-19) # "SWEET DREAMS" (2001-04-18) # (2002-03-13) # (2002-05-22) # "Air" (2002-09-19) # "Make-up Shadow" (2003-03-12) # (2004-02-25) # "Galaxy Legend/Ladybug" (2004-10-20)

Albums

# first wing (2000-07-26） # pupa (2003-03-26) # depart ～takako uehara single collection～ (2007-03-14)

DVDs / Videos

# MY FIRST WING (2000-09-27)(video) # TAKAKO UEHARA ON REEL-CLIPS&MORE; (2003-03-19)(DVD)

Photobooks

# 17 (2000-10-10) # vingt Takako (2003-01-14) # Veintitres (2006-02-14)

Other Official Book(s)

# YunTaKu Diary / ゆんたく日記 (2006-08-28)

Radio Host

# 2003.10.1～T-FM 「上原多香子のクローストゥユー」

Drama(s)

# 1999.4-6NTV 「蘇る金狼」 # 2000.10 CX 「ナースのお仕事 3」 20話ゲスト # 2000.10-12NTV 「新宿 暴走救急隊」 # 2001.7NTV系 「ビューティ 7 （セブン）」 (Beauty 7) # 2002.1 NTV系 「ナースマン」 # 2002.5.16CX 「青（ブルー）に恋して！ ～サッカー通と4人の美女の物語～ 第4ゲスト # 2002.10.1CX 「フライングボーイズ」 # 2003.9.29NHK 連続テレビ小説「てるてる家族」 # 2004.4.6NTV系 「ナースマンSPECIAL」 # 2004.4.10NTV系 「東京ワンダーホテル」 # 2004.7.24NTV系 「東京ワンダーホテル」 # 2006.9.7 NHK系 「ちいさこべ」 # (KBS, 2010)

Movie(s)

# 1998 「Andromedia」Together with 3 other Speed members Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, and Hitoe Arakaki. # 1999.10「ドリームメーカー」東映系 # 2002.7「デジモンフロンティア　古代デジモン復活」東洋アニメフェア　声優初挑戦 # 2004.7劇場版　ポケットモンスターアドバンスジェネレーション 架空の訪問者　デオキシス」声優

Musical(s)

# 2005.11.03 ~ 11.27 LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS # 2008.02.06 ~ 02.28 The Wedding Singer

References

External links

Official website

Official Blog

Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Japanese actors Category:Japanese female singers Category:Sonic Groove artists Category:People from Okinawa Prefecture

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Name	Joan Jonas
Caption	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things
Birthplace	New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Field	Video art, Performance art, Sculpture
Movement	Performance art
Awards	Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1995

Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading-edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments. In her early works, such as Wind (1968), Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique. Songdelay (1973), filmed with both telephoto and wide-angle lenses (which produce opposing extremes in depth of field) drew on Jonas' travels in Japan, where she saw groups of Noh performers clapping wood blocks and making angular movements.

Jonas’ video performances between 1972 and 1976 pared the cast down to one actor, the artist herself performing in her New York loft as Organic Honey, her seminal alter-ego invented as an “electronic erotic seductress,” whose doll-like visage seen reflected bits on camera explored the fragmented female image and women’s shifting roles. Drawings, costumes, masks, and interactions with the recorded image were effects that optically related to a doubling of perception and meaning. For Jonas, in Organic Honey and earlier performances, the mirror became a symbol of (self-)portraiture, representation, the body, and real vs. imaginary, while also sometimes adding an element of danger and a connection to the audience that was integral to the work.

In 1976 with The Juniper Tree, Jonas arrived at a narrative structure from diverse literary sources, such as fairy tales, mythology, poetry, and folk songs, formalizing a highly complex, nonlinear method of presentation. Using a colorful theatrical set and recorded sound, The Juniper Tree retold a Grimm Brothers tale of an archetypal evil stepmother and her family. In the 1990s, Jonas’ My New Theater series moved away from a dependence on her physical presence. The three pieces investigated, in sequence: a Cape Breton dancer and his local culture; a dog jumping through a hoop while Jonas draws a landscape; and finally, using stones, costumes, memory-laden objects, and her dog, a video about the act of performing.

In her installation/performance commissioned for Documenta 11, Lines in the Sand (2002), Jonas investigated themes of the self and the body in a performance installation based on the writer H.D.’s (Hilda Doolittle) epic poem “Helen in Egypt” (1951–55), which reworks the myth of Helen of Troy. Jonas sited many of her early performances at The Kitchen, including Funnel (1972) and the screening of Vertical Roll (1972).

In The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things, produced by The Renaissance Society in 2004, Jonas draws on Aby Warburg's study of Hopi imagery. Jonas sees something of a parallel between herself and Warburg who compared diverse geographical and chronological cultures through an analysis of abstract imagery taken from their various artifacts. Drawing on sources ranging from Noh to Nordic theater, from the Brothers Grimm to Homer, Jonas extrapolates the magic of universal narratives from the most quotidian of circumstances so that she, as well as we, may become the heroes and heroines, victims and villains of the myth of self and origin.

Jonas’ works were first performed in the 1960s and '70s for some of the most influential artists of her generation, including Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham and Laurie Anderson. While she is widely known in Europe, her groundbreaking performances are lesser known in the United States, where, as critic Douglas Crimp wrote of her work in 1983, “the rupture that is effected in modernist practices has subsequently been repressed, smoothed over.” Yet, in restaging early and recent works, Jonas continues to find new layers of meanings in themes and questions of gender and identity that have fueled her art for over thirty years.

Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre performance and other visual media. In 1994, Jonas was honored with a major retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in which she transformed several of her performance works into installations for the museum. In 2003 she had solo exhibitions at Rosamund Felsen in Los Angeles and the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City.

The Queens Museum of Art exhibited "Joan Jonas: Five Works" from December 2003 through March 2004. It was the first major exhibition of Jonas’s work in a New York museum. The exhibition included a video room as well as a survey of drawings, photographs, and sketchbooks. Curated by Valerie Smith, QMA Director of Exhibitions, the exhibition catalog can be seen here:

Jonas is a professor of visual arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Her works include: Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972), The Juniper Tree (1976), Volcano Saga (1985), Revolted by the Thought of Known Places… (1992), Woman in the Well (1996/2000), her portable My New Theater series (1997–1999), Lines in the Sand (2002), and The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things (2004).

Joan Jonas is represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert Gallery.

Further reading

References

External links

Joan Jonas in the Video Data Bank

Joan Jonas, Mediateca Media Art Space

Joan Jonas in the Netherlands Media Art Institute

Category:American artists Category:1936 births Category:Living people

Name	Eric Clapton
Alias	Slowhand
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Eric Patrick Clapton
Born	March 30, 1945Ripley, Surrey, England
Instrument	Vocals, Guitar
Genre	Rock, blues-rock, blues, psychedelic rock, hard rock
Occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter, artist
Years active	1962–present
Label	Warner Bros., Reprise, Polydor, RSO, Atco, Apple, Deram
Associated acts	Dire Straits, The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Powerhouse, Cream, Free Creek, The Dirty Mac, Blind Faith, J.J. Cale, The Plastic Ono Band, Delaney, Bonnie & Friends, Derek and the Dominos, T.D.F.
Url	Official website
Notable instruments	See: Guitars sectionBlackieBrownieGibson SGGibson ES-335Gibson Les Paul

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.

In the mid sixties, Clapton left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand", and graffiti in London declared "Clapton is God." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce the trio Cream, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the seventies, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of JJ Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped gain reggae a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998 Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.

Career

Early years

Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16 year old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 - 15 May 1985), a 24-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband Jack, believing they were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Their surname was Clapp, which has given rise to the widespread but erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton is the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier, and moved to Canada, leaving young Eric with his grandparents in distant Surrey. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently. In 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in the pubs around Surrey. When he was 17 years old Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B; group, called "The Roosters". He stayed with this band from January through August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a brief seven gig stint with Casey Jones & The Engineers. The band initially played Chess/Checker/Vee-Jay blues numbers and began to attract a large cult following when they took over the Rolling Stones' residency at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond. They toured England with American bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II; a joint LP album, recorded in December 1963, was issued belatedly under both their names, in 1965. In March 1965, just as Clapton left the band, the Yardbirds had their first major hit, "For Your Love", on which Clapton played guitar.

It was during this time period that Clapton's Yardbirds rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja recalled that whenever Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, he would stay on stage and replace it. The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing what is called a "slow handclap". Clapton told his official biographer, Ray Coleman, that, "My nickname of 'Slowhand' came from Giorgio Gomelsky. He coined it as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words".

Still musically devoted to the blues, Clapton was opposed to the Yardbirds' move toward a pop-oriented sound, in part, because "For Your Love" had been written by pop songwriter-for-hire Graham Gouldman, who had also written hit songs for teen pop outfit Herman's Hermits as well as the radio-friendly music of The Hollies. Clapton recommended fellow guitarist Jimmy Page as his replacement, but Page was at that time unwilling to relinquish his lucrative career as a freelance studio musician, so Page in turn recommended Clapton's successor, Jeff Beck.

Cream

Clapton left the Bluesbreakers in July 1966 (to be replaced by Peter Green) and formed Cream, one of the earliest supergroups, with Jack Bruce on bass (also of Manfred Mann, the Bluesbreakers and the Graham Bond Organization) and Ginger Baker on drums (another member of the GBO). Before the formation of Cream, Clapton was not well known in the United States; he left the Yardbirds before "For Your Love" hit the American Top Ten, and had yet to perform there. During his time with Cream, Clapton began to develop as a singer, songwriter and guitarist, though Bruce took most of the lead vocals and wrote the majority of the material with lyricist Pete Brown.

Cream's farewell album, Goodbye, featured live performances recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, 19 October 1968, and was released shortly after Cream disbanded in 1968; it also featured the studio single "Badge", co-written by Clapton and George Harrison. Clapton had met Harrison and become friends with him after the Beatles shared a bill with the Clapton-era Yardbirds at the London Palladium. The close friendship between Clapton and Harrison resulted in Clapton's playing on Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the Beatles' White Album. In the same year of release as the White Album, Harrison released his solo debut Wonderwall Music, becoming the first of many Harrison solo records to feature Clapton on guitar. Though friends, Clapton would go largely uncredited for his contributions to Harrison's albums due to contractual restraints. The pair would often play live together as each other's guest. A year after Harrison's death in 2001, Clapton helped organise the tribute concert, for which he was musical director.

Cream briefly reunited in 1993 to perform at the ceremony inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; however, a full reunion took place in May 2005, with Clapton, Bruce, and Baker playing four sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall, and three more at New York's Madison Square Garden that October. Recordings from the London shows, Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005, were released on CD, LP, and DVD in September/December 2005.

Blind Faith & Delaney and Bonnie and Friends

A desultory spell in a second super group, the short-lived Blind Faith (1969), which was composed of Cream drummer Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood of Traffic and Ric Grech of Family, resulted in one LP and one arena-circuit tour. The super group debuted before 100,000 fans in London's Hyde Park on 7 June 1969. They later performed several dates in Scandinavia and began a sold-out American tour in July before their one and only album was released. The LP Blind Faith was recorded in such haste that side two consisted of just two songs, one of them a 15-minute jam entitled "Do What You Like". The album's jacket image of a topless pubescent girl was deemed controversial in the United States and was replaced by a photograph of the band. Blind Faith dissolved after less than seven months. While Winwood returned to Traffic, by now Clapton was tired of both the spotlight and the hype that had surrounded Cream and Blind Faith.

Clapton decided to step into the background for a time, touring as a sideman with the American group Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who had been the support act for Blind Faith's U.S. tour. He also played two dates that fall as a member of The Plastic Ono Band, including the famous performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in September 1969, released as the album Live Peace in Toronto 1969.

Clapton became close friends with Delaney Bramlett, who encouraged him in his singing and writing. During the summer of 1969, Clapton and Bramlett contributed to the Music From Free Creek "supersession" project. Clapton, appearing as "King Cool" for contractual reasons, played with Dr. John on three songs, joined by Bramlett on one track. Jeff Beck also contributed to the sessions as "A. N. Other", though Clapton and Beck did not play together.

Using the Bramletts' backing group and an all-star cast of session players (including Leon Russell and Stephen Stills), Clapton recorded his first solo album during two brief tour hiatuses, fittingly named Eric Clapton. Delaney Bramlett co-wrote six of the songs with Clapton, and Bonnie Bramlett co-wrote "Let It Rain". The album also yielded the unexpected U.S. #18 hit, J. J. Cale's "After Midnight". Clapton went with Delaney and Bonnie from the stage to the studio with the Dominos to record George Harrison's All Things Must Pass in spring 1970. During this busy period, Clapton also recorded with other artists including Dr. John, Leon Russell, Plastic Ono Band, Billy Preston and Ringo Starr.

1970s

Derek and the Dominos

With the intention to counteract the "star" cult faction that had begun to form around him, Clapton assembled a new band composed of Delaney & Bonnie's former rhythm section; Bobby Whitlock as keyboardist and vocalist, Carl Radle as the bassist and drummer Jim Gordon, with Clapton playing guitar. It was his intention to show that he need not form a starring role, and functioned well as a member of an ensemble. Naming the band, "Eric Clapton and Friends" at first, the name "Derek and the Dominos" was a fluke. It occurred when the band's provisional name of "Del and the Dynamos" was misread as Derek and the Dominos. Clapton's biography also states that Ashton told Clapton to call the band "Del and the Dominos", since "Del" was his nickname for Eric Clapton. Del and Eric were combined and the final name became "Derek and the Dominos".

Clapton's close friendship with George Harrison had brought him into contact with Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd, with whom he became deeply infatuated. When she spurned his advances, Clapton's unrequited affections prompted most of the material for the Dominos' album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. This album contained the monster-hit single, love song "Layla", inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nezami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which his friend Ian Dallas had given him. The book moved Clapton profoundly as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he could not marry her.

Working at Criteria Studios in Miami with Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, who had worked with Clapton on Cream's Disraeli Gears, the band recorded a double-album. The two parts of "Layla" were recorded in separate sessions: the opening guitar section was recorded first, and for the second section, laid down several months later, drummer Jim Gordon composed and played the piano part. The album was heavily blues-influenced and featured the combination of twin lead guitars of Allman and Clapton, with Allman's slide guitar as a key ingredient of their sound.

Tragedy dogged the group throughout its brief career. During the sessions, Clapton was devastated by news of the death of Jimi Hendrix; eight days previously the band had cut a cover of "Little Wing" as a tribute to Hendrix. On 17 September 1970, one day before Hendrix's death, Clapton had purchased a left-handed Fender Stratocaster that he had planned to give to Hendrix as a birthday gift. Adding to Clapton's woes, the Layla album received only lukewarm reviews upon release. The shaken group undertook a U.S. tour without Allman, who had returned to The Allman Brothers Band. Despite Clapton's later admission that the tour took place amidst a veritable blizzard of drugs and alcohol, it resulted in the live double album In Concert. The band had recorded several tracks for a second album in London during the spring of 1971 (five of which were released on the Eric Clapton box-set Crossroads), but the results were mediocre.

A second record was in the works when a clashing of egos took place and Clapton walked, thus disbanding the group. Allman was later killed in a motorcycle accident on 29 October 1971. Although Radle would remain Clapton's bass player until the summer of 1979 (Radle died in May 1980 from the effects of alcohol and narcotics), it would be 2003 before Clapton and Whitlock appeared together again (Clapton guested on Whitlock's appearance on the Later with Jools Holland show). Another tragic footnote to the Dominos story was the fate of drummer Jim Gordon, who was an undiagnosed schizophrenic and years later murdered his mother during a psychotic episode. Gordon was confined to 16-years-to-life imprisonment, later being moved to a mental institution, where he remains today. In addition to his (temporarily) unrequited and intense attraction to Pattie Boyd, he withdrew from recording and touring to isolation in his Surrey, England residence. There he nursed his heroin addiction, resulting in a career hiatus interrupted only by the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971 (where he passed out on stage, was revived, and continued his performance). Clapton continued to release albums and toured regularly. Highlights of the period include No Reason to Cry, (a collaboration with Bob Dylan and The Band) and Slowhand, which featured "Wonderful Tonight", another song inspired by Boyd, and a second J.J. Cale cover, "Cocaine". In 1976 he performed alongside a string of notable guests, to pay tribute to the final farewell performance of The Band, filmed in a Martin Scorsese documentary called the Last Waltz.

1980s

In 1981, Clapton was invited by producer Martin Lewis to appear at the Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Clapton accepted the invitation and teamed up with Jeff Beck to perform a series of duets—reportedly their first-ever billed stage collaboration. Three of the performances were released on the album of the show and one of the songs was featured in the film of the show. The performances heralded a return to form and prominence for Clapton in the new decade. Many factors had influenced Clapton's comeback, including his "deepening commitment to Christianity", to which he had converted prior to his heroin addiction.

After an embarrassing fishing incident, Clapton finally called his manager and admitted he was an alcoholic. In January 1982, Roger and Clapton flew to Minneapolis-St. Paul; Clapton would be checked in at Hazelden Treatment Center, located in Center City, Minnesota. On the flight over, Clapton indulged himself in a great amount of drinks, for fear he may never be able to drink again. Clapton is quoted as saying from his autobiography, "In the lowest moments of my life, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead. It was the only thing I thought was worth living for, and the idea that people were about to try and remove me from alcohol was so terrible that I drank and drank and drank, and they had to practically carry me into the clinic." [Clapton - p. 198]

After being discharged, it was recommended by doctors of Hazelden that Clapton not partake in any activities that would act as triggers for his alcoholism or stress, until he was fully situated back at Hurtwood. A few months after his discharge, Clapton began working on his next album against the Hazelden doctors' orders. Working with Tom Dowd, Clapton produced what he thought as his "most forced" album to date, Money and Cigarettes.

In 1984, he performed on Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and went on tour with Waters following the release of the album. Since then Waters and Clapton have had a close relationship. In 2005 they performed together for the Tsunami Relief Fund. In 2006 they performed at the Highclere Castle, in aid of the Countryside Alliance, playing two set pieces of "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb". Clapton, now a seasoned charity performer, played at the Live Aid concert on 13th July 1985 when offered his place close to peak viewing hours he was apparently flattered. As Clapton recovered from his addictions, his album output continued in the 1980s, including two produced with Phil Collins, 1985's Behind the Sun, which produced the hits "Forever Man" and "She's Waiting", and 1986's August.

and Eric Clapton at Wembley Stadium, 18 June 1987]] August was suffused with Collins's trademark drum and horn sound and became Clapton's biggest seller in the UK to date, matching his highest chart position, number 3. The album's first track, the hit "It's In The Way That You Use It", was also featured in the Tom Cruise-Paul Newman movie The Color of Money. The horn-peppered "Run" echoed Collins' "Sussudio" and rest of the producer's Genesis/solo output, while "Tearing Us Apart" (with Tina Turner) and the bitter "Miss You" echoed Clapton's angry sound. This rebound kicked off Clapton's two-year period of touring with Collins and their August collaborates, bassist Nathan East and keyboard player/songwriter Greg Phillinganes. While on tour for August, two concert videos were recorded of the four-man band, Eric Clapton Live from Montreux and Eric Clapton and Friends. Clapton later remade "After Midnight" as a single and a promotional track for the Michelob beer brand, which had also marketed earlier songs by Collins and Steve Winwood. Clapton won a British Academy Television Award for his collaboration with Michael Kamen on the score for the 1985 BBC television thriller serial Edge of Darkness. In 1989, Clapton released Journeyman, an album which covered a wide range of styles including blues, jazz, soul and pop. Collaborators included George Harrison, Phil Collins, Daryl Hall, Chaka Khan, Mick Jones, David Sanborn and Robert Cray.

and Clapton playing in the Prince's Trust Concert at Wembley Stadium in 1987]] In 1984, while still married to Pattie Boyd, Clapton began a year-long relationship with Yvonne Kelly. The two had a daughter, Ruth, who was born in January 1985; but her existence was kept a secret by her parents. She was not publicly revealed as his child until 1991. Boyd criticised Clapton because he had not revealed the child's existence.

Hurricane Hugo hit Montserrat in 1989 and this resulted in the closure of Sir George Martin and John Burgess's recording studio AIR Montserrat, where Kelly was Managing Director. Kelly and Ruth moved back to England, and the myth of Eric's secret daughter began as a result of newspaper articles published at the time. Boyd herself was never able to conceive children, despite attempts at in vitro fertilisation. Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which was co-written by Will Jennings. At the 35th Grammy Awards, Clapton received a total of six Grammy Awards for the single "Tears in Heaven", and his Unplugged album.

In October 1992, Clapton was among the dozens of artists performing at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration. Recorded at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the live two-disk CD/DVD captured a show full of celebrities performing classic Dylan songs, before ending with a few performances from Dylan himself. Despite the presence of 10 other guitarists on stage, including George Harrison, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn, Steve Cropper, Tom Petty, and Dylan, Clapton played the lead on a nearly 7-minute version of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" as part of the finale.

While Unplugged featured Clapton playing acoustic guitar, his 1994 album From the Cradle contained new versions of old blues standards highlighted by his electric guitar playing. Clapton's 1996 recording of the Wayne Kirkpatrick/Gordon Kennedy/Tommy Sims tune "Change the World" (featured in the soundtrack of the movie Phenomenon) won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1997, the same year he recorded Retail Therapy (an album of electronic music with Simon Climie under the pseudonym TDF). The following year, Clapton released the album Pilgrim, the first record featuring brand new material for almost a decade.

On 22 January 2005, Clapton performed in the Tsunami Relief Concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In May 2005, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker reunited as Cream for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Concert recordings were released on CD and DVD. Later, Cream performed in New York at Madison Square Garden. Back Home, Clapton's first album of new original material in nearly five years, was released on Reprise Records on 30 August. In 2006 he invited Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II to join his band for his 2006–2007 world tour. Trucks is the third member of The Allman Brothers Band to tour supportng Clapton, the second being pianist/keyboardist Chuck Leavell who appeared on the MTV Unplugged album and the 24 Nights performances at the Royal Albert Hall theatre of London in 1990 and 1991, as well as Clapton's 1992 U.S. tour.

On 20 May 2006, Clapton performed with Queen drummer Roger Taylor and former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters at the Highclere Castle, in support of the Countryside Alliance. On 13 August 2006, Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in Columbus, Ohio, playing guitar on three songs in Jimmie Vaughan's opening act. A collaboration with guitarist J. J. Cale, titled The Road to Escondido, was released on 7 November 2006, featuring Derek Trucks and Billy Preston. The 14-track CD was produced and recorded by the duo in August 2005 in California. The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite The Derek Trucks Band to open for Clapton's set on his 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, with Trucks remaining on set afterward, performing with Clapton's band throughout his performances, and embarking on a world tour with him.

The rights to Clapton's official memoirs, written by Christopher Simon Sykes and published in 2007, were sold at the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair for USD $4 million.

On 26 February 2008, it was reported that North Korean officials had invited Clapton to play a concert in the communist state. According to reports, Clapton's management received the invitation and passed it on to the singer, who has agreed in principle and suggested it take place sometime in 2009. Kristen Foster, a spokesperson, said, "Eric Clapton receives numerous offers to play in countries around the world," and "[t]here is no agreement whatsoever for him to play in North Korea."

In 2007, Clapton learned more about his father, a Canadian soldier who left the UK after the war. Although Clapton's grandparents eventually told him the truth about his parentage, he only knew that his father's name was Edward Fryer. This was a source of disquiet for Clapton, as witnessed by his 1998 song "My Father's Eyes". A Montreal journalist named Michael Woloschuk researched Canadian Armed Forces service records and tracked down members of Fryer's family, finally piecing together the story. He learned that Clapton's father was Edward Walter Fryer, born 21 March 1920, in Montreal and died 15 May 1985 in Newmarket, Ontario. Fryer was a musician (piano and saxophone) and a lifelong drifter, who was married several times, had several children and apparently never knew that he was the father of Eric Clapton. Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at Macdonald Cartier Airport, in Ottawa, Canada.

In February 2008, Clapton performed with his long-time friend Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden and guested on his recorded single "Dirty City" on Winwood's album Nine Lives. The two former Blind Faith bandmates met again for a series of 14 concerts throughout the United States in June 2009.

Clapton's 2008 Summer Tour began on 3 May at the Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa Bay, Florida, and then moved to Canada, Ireland, England, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany and Monaco. On 28 June 2008, he headlined Saturday night for Hard Rock Calling 2008 in London's Hyde Park (previously Hyde Park Calling) with support from Sheryl Crow & John Mayer. In September 2008, Clapton performed at a private charity fundraiser for The Countryside Alliance at Floridita in Soho, London, that included such guests as the London Mayor Boris Johnson.

at the Beacon Theater]] In March 2009, The Allman Brothers Band (amongst many notable guests), celebrated their 40th year, dedicating their string of concerts to the late Duane Allman on their annual run at the Beacon Theatre. Eric Clapton was one of the performers, with drummer Butch Trucks remarking that the performance wasn't the typical Allman Brothers experience, given the number and musical styles of the guests who were invited to perform. Songs like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" were punctuated with others including "The Weight", with Levon Helm; Johnny Winter sitting in on Hendrix's "Red House" and "Layla". Two months later, on 4 May 2009 Clapton appeared as a featured guest at the Royal Albert Hall playing "Further on Up the Road" with Joe Bonamassa.

Clapton was scheduled to be one of the performers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary concert in Madison Square Garden on 30 October 2009, but cancelled due to gallstone surgery. Van Morrison (who also cancelled) said in an interview that he and Clapton were to do a "couple of songs" but that they would do something else together at "some other stage of the game".

2010s

Clapton performed a 2-night show with Jeff Beck at London's O2 Arena 13–14 February 2010. The two former Yardbirds extended their 2010 tour with stops at Madison Square Garden, Air Canada Centre and the Bell Centre in Montreal. Clapton performed a series of concerts in 11 cities throughout the United States from 25 February to 13 March 2010. His third European tour with Steve Winwood began on 18 May and ended 13 June. He then began a short North American tour lasting from 26 June to 3 July, starting with his third Crossroads Guitar Festival on 26 June in Bridgeview, Illinois. Clapton released a new studio album, Clapton, on 27 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and 28 September 2010 in the United States. On 17 November 2010, Clapton performed as guest on the Prince's Trust rock gala held at the Royal Albert Hall, supported by the house band for the evening which included Jools Holland, Midge Ure and Mark King.

Influences

Clapton has performed songs by myriad artists, which include Bob Marley, J.J. Cale, Bo Diddley, Robert Johnson, and Bob Dylan. He cites Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Hubert Sumlin both in musical influence and on his style on the guitar.

He holds no other artist in higher esteem than Robert Johnson. In 2004, Clapton released a CD and DVD entitled Sessions for Robert Johnson, featuring Clapton recording Robert Johnson covers with electric and acoustic guitars. He performs these tracks live and in the practice space on the DVD, as well as gives brief interviews explaining the huge influence Robert Johnson had on him. Doyle Bramhall II assists Clapton on the acoustic tracks of the CD and the DVD.

In his book, Discovering Robert Johnson (which he co-authored with several other writers), Clapton said of Johnson, that he was "...the most important blues musician who ever lived. He was true, absolutely, to his own vision, and as deep as I have gotten into the music over the last 30 years, I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice, really. ... it seemed to echo something I had always felt." Clapton persuaded Freddie King to sign with his record label, RSO in 1974. Clapton has recorded more than six of J. J. Cale's originals and has put out an album with him. Clapton has also collaborated with Frank Zappa, B.B. King, George Harrison, Santana, Ringo Starr, Roger Waters, John Lennon, Mark Knopfler and The Plastic Ono Band. Clapton also collaborated with singer/songwriter John Mayer on his 2006 album release, Continuum. Mayer cites Clapton in his liner notes: "Eric Clapton knows I steal from him and is still cool with it."

Legacy

Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. 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. He 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.

A number of guitarists that Clapton has influenced are: Richie Sambora, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks, Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Orianthi, Jimi Hendrix, Brad Paisley, Jonny Buckland, Joe Don Rooney, Alex Lifeson, Jonny Lang, John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, and Davy Knowles.

Guitars

" Photo: Matt Gibbons]] Clapton's choice of electric guitars has been as notable as the man himself, and alongside Hank Marvin, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Clapton exerted a crucial and widespread influence in popularising particular models of the electric guitar. With the Yardbirds, Clapton played a Fender Telecaster, a Fender Jazzmaster, a double-cutaway Gretsch 6120 and a 1964 Cherry-Red Gibson ES-335. He became exclusively a Gibson player for a period beginning in mid-1965, when he purchased a used Gibson Les Paul Sunburst Standard guitar from a local guitar store in London. Clapton commented on the slim profile of the neck, which would indicate it as a 1960 model.

Early during his stint in Cream, Clapton's first Les Paul Standard was stolen. He continued to play Les Pauls exclusively with Cream (one bought from Andy Summers was almost identical to the stolen guitar) until 1967 when he acquired his most famous guitar in this period, a 1964 Gibson SG. Just before Cream's first U.S. appearance in 1967, Clapton's SG, Bruce's Fender VI, and Baker's drum head were all repainted in psychedelic designs created by the visual art collective known as The Fool. In 1968 Clapton bought a Gibson Firebird and started using the 1964 Cherry-Red Gibson ES-335 again. Gibson produced a limited run of 250 "Crossroads 335" replicas. The 335 was only the second electric guitar Clapton bought.

In July 1968, Clapton gave George Harrison a red, refinished Les Paul. In the following September, Clapton played the guitar on the Beatles' studio recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". His SG found its way into the hands of George Harrison's friend Jackie Lomax, who subsequently sold it to musician Todd Rundgren for US$500 in 1972. Rundgren restored the guitar and nicknamed it "Sunny", after "Sunshine of Your Love". He retained it until 2000, when he sold it at an auction for US$150,000. First was "Brownie" used during the recording of Eric Clapton which in 1974 became the backup to the most famous of all Clapton's guitars, "Blackie". In November 1970 Eric bought six Fender Stratocasters from the Sho-bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee while on tour with the Dominos. He gave one each to George Harrison, Steve Winwood and Pete Townshend.

Clapton assembled the best components of the remaining three to create "Blackie", which was his favourite stage guitar until its retirement in 1985. It was first played live 13 January 1973 at the Rainbow Concert. Clapton called the 1956/57 Strat a "mongrel". On 24 June 2004, Clapton sold "Blackie" at Christie's Auction House, New York for $959,500 to raise funds for his Crossroads Centre for drug and alcohol addictions. "Brownie" is now on display at the Experience Music Project. The Fender Custom Shop has since produced a limited run of 275 'Blackie' replicas, correct in every detail right down to the 'Duck Brothers' flight case, and artificially aged using Fender's 'Relic' process to simulate years of hard wear. One was presented to Eric upon the model's release and used for three numbers during a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 17 May 2006.

In 1981, Clapton gave his signed Fender Lead II guitar to the Hard Rock Cafe to designate his favourite bar stool. Pete Townshend also donated his own Gibson Les Paul guitar, with a note attached: "Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete."

In 1988, Fender honoured Clapton with the introduction of his signature Eric Clapton Stratocaster. These were the first two artist models in the Stratocaster range and since then, the artist series has grown to include models inspired both by Clapton's contemporaries such as Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and by those who have influenced him such as Buddy Guy. Clapton uses Ernie Ball Slinky and Super Slinky strings. Clapton has also been honoured with signature-model 000-28EC and 000-42EC acoustic guitars made by the famous American firm of C.F. Martin & Company. The Crossroads Centre is a treatment base for addictive disorders such as drugs and alcohol. In 2004, Clapton organised and participated in the Crossroads Guitar Festival to benefit the Centre. A second guitar auction, including the "Cream" of Clapton's collection – as well as guitars donated by famous friends – was also held on 24 June 2004. His Lowden acoustic guitar sold for $41,825. The total revenue garnered by this auction at Christie's was US $7,438,624.

The "woman tone" is the informal term used by Clapton to refer to his distinctive mid- to late-1960s electric guitar sound, created using his Gibson SG solidbody guitar (with humbucking pick-ups) and a Marshall tube amplifier. It is an overdriven sound that is articulate yet thick. It is characterised by being quite distorted (or even achieved with a fuzz) but muted, in contrast to the bright and twangy distortion that most guitarists were using at the time. Many players have tried to duplicate it, usually without success, in part because Clapton's playing technique had a lot to do with the tone.

Among the techniques used to replicate Clapton's sound is a technique by which the amplifier's volume is turned up to full, while the guitar's tone knob is turned down to zero or one.

Perhaps the best examples of the "woman tone" are Clapton's famous riff and solo from his band Cream's 1967 hit "Sunshine of Your Love". Clapton has explained that he obtained the tone with his Gibson's tone control rolled all the way down, switching to the neck pick-up (closest to the fretboard) and the volume all the way up, with his distortion turned all the way up. The treble, mids and bass controls on the amplifier were also maxed out. Some versions of the "woman tone" may also have involved strategic positioning of Clapton's wah-wah pedal.

Other media appearances

Clapton frequently appears as a guest on the albums of other musicians. For example, he is credited on Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms album, as he lent Mark Knopfler one of his guitars for the album. He also played lead guitar and synthesiser on The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Roger Waters' debut solo album. Other media appearances include the Toots & the Maytals album True Love where he played guitar on the track "Pressure Drop". He can also be heard at the beginning of Frank Zappa's album, We're Only in It for the Money, repeating the phrase, "Are you hung up?" over and over again. In 1985, Clapton appeared on the charity concert Live Aid in Philadelphia with Phil Collins, Tim Renwick, Chris Stainton, Jamie Oldaker, Marcy Levy, Shaun Murphy and Donald 'Duck' Dunn. In 1988 he played with Dire Straits and Elton John at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium and the Prince's Trust rock gala at the Royal Albert Hall. On 30 June 1990, Dire Straits, Clapton and Elton John made a guest appearance in the Nordoff-Robbins charity show held at Knebworth. In 1991, Clapton was featured on Richie Sambora's album, Stranger In This Town, in a song dedicated to him called "Mr. Bluesman". He also contributed guitar and vocals to "Runaway Train", a duet with Elton John on the latter's The One album the following year.

On 12 September 1996, Clapton played a party for Armani at New York City's Lexington Armory with Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Steve Gadd. Sheryl Crow appeared on one number, performing "Tearing Us Apart", a track from August, which was first performed by Tina Turner during the Prince's Trust All-Star Rock show in 1986. It was Clapton's sole US appearance that year, following the open-air concert held at Hyde Park with Dave Bronze, Andy Fairweather-Low, The Kick Horns, Jerry Portnoy, Chris Stainton and backing vocalists Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles. The concert was taped and the footage was released both on VHS video cassette and later, on DVD.

Clapton was featured in the movie version of Tommy, the first full length rock opera written by The Who. The movie version gave Clapton a cameo appearance as the Preacher, performing Sonny Boy Williamson's song, "Eyesight to the Blind". He also appeared in Blues Brothers 2000 as one of the Louisiana Gator Boys. In addition to being in the band, he had a small speaking role. Clapton has also appeared in an advertisement for the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen. In March 2007, Clapton appeared in an advertisement for RealNetwork's Rhapsody online music service. In 2010 Clapton started appearing as a spokesman for T-Mobile, advertising their MyTouch Fender cell phone.

Eric Clapton was again compared to God's image in the episode "Holy Crap!" of season two of That '70s Show when Eric Forman and Steven Hyde are made by their minister to draw God.

Views and advocacy

Clapton is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance, has played in concerts to raise funds for the organisation and publicly opposed the Labour Party’s ban on fox hunting. A spokesperson for Clapton said: "Eric supports the Countryside Alliance. He doesn't hunt himself, but does enjoy rural pursuits such as fishing and shooting. He supports the Alliance's pursuit to scrap the ban on the basis that he doesn't agree with the state's interference with people's private pursuits."

Controversy over remarks on immigration

On 5 August 1976 Clapton provoked an uproar and lingering controversy when he spoke out against increasing immigration during a concert in Birmingham. Visibly intoxicated, Clapton voiced his support of controversial political candidate Enoch Powell and announced on stage that Britain was in danger of becoming a "black colony". Clapton was quoted telling the audience: "I think Enoch's right ... we should send them all back. Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!" The latter phrase was at the time a British National Front slogan. Clapton continued:

"I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking (indecipherable) don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he’s a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he’s our man, he’s on our side, he’ll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he’s on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"

This incident, along with some explicitly pro-fascism remarks made around the same time by David Bowie as well as uses of Nazi-related imagery by Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux, were the main catalysts for the creation of Rock Against Racism, which occurred on 30 April 1978.

In response to his comments, rock photographer Red Saunders and others published an open letter in NME, Melody Maker, Sounds and the Socialist Worker. It read "Come on Eric... Own up. Half your music is black. You're rock music's biggest colonist". It also concluded, "P.S. Who shot the Sheriff, Eric? It sure as hell wasn't you!".

In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Powell as "outrageously brave", and stated that his "feeling about this has not changed", because the UK is still "... inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos." In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense". In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton called himself "deliberately oblivious to it all" and wrote, "I had never really understood or been directly affected by racial conflict... when I listened to music, I was disinterested in where the players came from or what colour their skin was. Interesting, then, that 10 years later, I would be labelled a racist... Since then, I have learnt to keep my opinions to myself. Of course, it might also have had something to do with the fact that Pattie had just been leered at by a member of the Saudi royal family." In a December 2007 interview with Melvin Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton reiterated his support for Enoch Powell and again denied that Powell's views were "racist".

Awards and honours

Football

In 1982, he performed a concert before West Bromwich Albion player John Wile's testimonial game at the Hawthorns, and it is often reported by various sources that Clapton (despite being from London more than 100 miles away) is an Albion supporter. Credence for this notion can be taken from the cover pictures to the "Backless" solo album, where he is seen on the front cover to be wearing a football scarf; the rear cover photograph reveals the slogan "ALBION" on the scarf. It has also been reported that the club rejected his offer to invest cash in them around this time, and that he has since expressed more of an interest in Chelsea instead.

Clapton's music in film and TV

Mean Streets (1973) – "I Looked Away"

Purple Haze (1983) - "I Feel Free"

The Hit (1984) – Score

Back to the Future (1985) – Heaven Is One Step Away

Edge of Darkness (1985) – Soundtrack

The Color of Money (1986) – "It's In The Way That You Use It"

SpaceCamp (1986 film) – "Forever Man" plays when Tate Donovan's character arrives at the Space Camp.

The German car manufacturer Opel and Vauxhall in the UK used the guitar riff of Clapton's "Layla" in its advertising campaign throughout in 1987–95.

Lethal Weapon (1987) – Soundtrack with Michael Kamen

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) – "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"

Goodfellas (1990) – "Layla" and "Sunshine of Your Love"

Rush (1991) – Clapton wrote the score

Wayne's World (1992) – "Loving your Loving"

Peter's Friends (1992) – "Give Me Strength"

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) - Clapton contributed to the score and co-wrote and co-performed the song "It's Probably Me" with Sting and "Runaway Train" with Elton John.

True Lies (1994) – "Sunshine of Your Love"

The Simpsons episode "Mother Simpson" (1995) – "Sunshine of Your Love"

Twister (1996) – "Motherless Child"

Phenomenon (1996) – "Change the World"

The Van (1996) – (Soundtrack)

Happy Gilmore (1996) - "Wonderful Tonight"

Patch Adams (1998) – "Let It Rain"

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) – "Pilgrim"

City of Angels (1998) – "Further On Up The Road"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes "Band Candy" and "Forever" (1998) – "Tales of Brave Ulysses"

Runaway Bride (1999) – "Blue Eyes Blue "

The Story of Us (1999) – "(I) Get Lost" (featured multiple times)

Friends episode "The One with the Proposal, Part 2" (2000) - "Wonderful Tonight"

Dancing At The Blue Iguana (2000) – "River of Tears"

A Knight's Tale (2001) – "Further On Up The Road"

Blow (2001) – "Strange Brew"

Friends episode "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two" (2002) - "River of Tears"

Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef" (2002) – "Sunshine of Your Love"

The Sopranos episode "Whitecaps" (2002) – Tony Soprano is seen listening to "Layla" in his Suburban.

School Of Rock (2003) – "Sunshine of Your Love"

Starsky & Hutch (2004) – "Cocaine"

Anger Management (2004) – "Strange Brew"

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) – "Cocaine"

Bad News Bears (2005) – "Cocaine"

Lords of Dogtown (2005) – "Strange Brew"

Lord of War (2005) – "Cocaine"

United States of Tara episode – "Cocaine"

The Good Guys Episode Silvio's Way - "Layla"

Due Date (2010) – "White Room"

Discography

Band

, Derek Trucks, Steve Jordan, Eric Clapton, Willie Weeks 2006–2007]]

2006–07 Tour Band

European Tour

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals

Derek Trucks – slide guitar, guitar

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Tim Carmon – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass guitar

Steve Jordan – drums

The Kick Horns (Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, and Tim Sanders) – brass

Michelle John – backing vocals

Sharon White – backing vocals

North America – Eastern Region, Japan, Australia and New Zealand – Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals

Derek Trucks – slide guitar, guitar

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Tim Carmon – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass guitar

Steve Jordan – drums

Jerry Douglas – slide guitar on Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

Michelle John – backing vocals

Sharon White – backing vocals

Support act for European and North America: The Robert Cray Band

2008 Summer Tour Band

Eastern U.S. / Canada Tour

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Pino Palladino – bass

Robert Randolph – slide guitar

Ian Thomas – drums

Sharon White – backing vocals

Michelle John – backing vocals

European Tour

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Abe Laboriel, Jr. – drums

Sharon White – backing vocals

Michelle John – backing vocals

2009 Tour Band

Japan / Australia / New Zealand Tour

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Abe Laboriel, Jr. – drums

Sharon White – backing vocals

Michelle John – backing vocals

UK / Ireland Tour

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Andy Fairweather-Low – guitars, backing vocals

Doyle Bramhall II – guitars, backing vocals (on the RAH shows of 26–31 May)

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Tim Carmon – keyboards

Steve Gadd – drums

Sharon White – backing vocals

Michelle John – backing vocals

US Tour with Steve Winwood – (10 June – 30 June)

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Steve Winwood – vocals, Hammond B3, piano, guitars

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Abe Laboriel, Jr. – drums

Michelle John – backing vocals

Sharon White – backing vocals

2010 Tour Band

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Walt Richmond – keyboards

Steve Gadd – drums

Sharon White – backing vocals

Michelle John – backing vocals

European Tour with Steve Winwood – (18 May – 13 June)

Eric Clapton – guitars, vocals

Steve Winwood – guitars, vocals, piano, Hammond B3

Chris Stainton – keyboards

Willie Weeks – bass

Steve Gadd – drums

Michelle John – backing vocals

Sharon White – backing vocals

Previous band members

Albert Lee – guitar, vocals, backing vocals

Tim Renwick – guitar

Andy Fairweather-Low – guitar, backing vocals

Phil Palmer – guitar

George Terry – guitar, backing vocals

Mark Knopfler – guitar

Alan Darby – guitar

Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, hammond organ, backing vocals

Billy Preston – Hammond B3 Organ

David Sancious – keyboards, guitar, harmonica, backing vocals

Joe Sample – piano, Wurlitzer

Dick Sims – keyboards

Alan Clark – piano, keyboards

Jim Taylor – xylophone

Gary Brooker – keyboards, backing vocals

Chuck Leavell – piano, keyboards, hammond organ

Chris Stainton – piano, keyboards

Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar

Carl Radle – bass guitar, guitar

Nathan East – bass guitar, vocals, backing vocals

Pino Palladino – bass guitar

Dave Bronze – bass guitar

Paulinho Da Costa – percussion

Jim Gordon – drums, piano

Steve Ferrone – drums

Steve Gadd – drums

Roger Hawkins – drums

Jim Keltner – drums

Richie Hayward – drums

Andy Newmark – drums

Jamie Oldaker – drums

Henry Spinetti – drums

Phil Collins – drums, vocals

Ricky Lawson – drums

Ray Cooper – percussion

Yvonne Elliman – vocals, backing vocals, guitar

Katie Kissoon – backing vocals

Marcy Levy – vocals, backing vocals, harmonica

Shaun Murphy - backing vocals

Tessa Niles – backing vocals

Maggie Ryder – backing vocals

See also

The Yardbirds

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Cream

Blind Faith

Delaney & Bonnie and Friends

The Plastic Ono Band

Derek and the Dominos

References

Further reading

On Eric Clapton's career :

* Robin Bextor, Eric Clapton: Now & Then, Carlton Books, 2006, 144 pp.

* Eric Clapton, Clapton, The Autobiography, 2007 and 2008, Broadway Books, 352 pp. / Arrow, 400 pages / Century, 384 pp.

* Eric Clapton, Derek Taylor and Peter Blake, 24 Nights, Genesis Publications, 2 volumes, 1992, 198 and 64 pp. Eric Clapton's signed limited edition books, in a Solander box with 2 live CD

* Ray Coleman, Clapton!: The Authorized Biography, Warner Books, 368 pp, or Futura, 336 pages, 1986; originally publ. as "Survivor: The Authorized Biography", Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985, 300 pp.

* Geoffrey Giuliano, Brenda Giuliano and Deborah Lynn Black, The Illustrated Eric Clapton, Sunburst Books, 1994, 96 pp.

* George Harrison, Eric Clapton & al, Live in Japan: A celebration of George Harrison’s ‘Rock Legends’ Tour with Eric Clapton Band, Genesis Publications, 1993, 274 pp. George Harrison's signed limited black leather edition book, in a box with 2 live CD.

* Christopher Hjort w/ a foreword by John Mayall, Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970, Jawbone, 2007, 352 pp.

* John Pidgeon, Eric Clapton: A Biography, Panther, 1976, ... pages; rev. & upd. Vermilion, 1985 or 1987, 123 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Eric Clapton: The Complete Recording Sessions 1963-1992, Blandford or St. Martin’s Press, 1993, 192 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Slowhand: The Life & Music of Eric Clapton, Octopus or Harmony, 1991, 176 pp; upd. ed. Crown, 1993, 192 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Eric Clapton in His Own Words, Omnibus Press, 1993, 96 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Eric Clapton: The New Visual Documentary, Omnibus Press, 1990, 128 pp.; rev. ed., 1994, ...pp.; originally publ. as ''Eric Clapton: A Visual Documentary, 1986, ... pp.

* Marc Roberty, Clapton: The Complete Chronicle, Pyramid, 1991, 176 pp. / Mitchell Beazley 1993, 192 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Eric Clapton: The Man, the Music and the Memorabilia, Paper Tiger-Dragon’s World, 1994, 226 pp.

* Marc Roberty, The Complete Guide to the Music of Eric Clapton, Omnibus Press, 1995, 152 pp. CD format; rev. ed., 2005, 128 pp.

* Marc Roberty, Eric Clapton, CD Books, Orion, 1994, ...pp or MBS (Miami), 1996, 120 pp. CD format

* Marc Roberty and Chris Welch, Eric Clapton: The Illustrated Disco/Biography, Omnibus Press, 1984, 80 pp. or Beekman (New York), 1990, ...pp.

* Christopher Sandford, Clapton: Edge of Darkness, Victor Gollancz, 1994, 322 pp.

* Michael Schumacher, Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton, Hyperion, 1995, 388 pp.; rev. ed, Time Warner p'backs, 1998, 411 pp.; new ed. titled Eric Clapton, Sphere, 2008, 432 pp.

* Harry Shapiro, Eric Clapton: Lost in The Blues, Guinness Books or Muze, 1992, 256 pp.; rev. ed. Da Capo press, 1193, 225 pp.; originally publ. as Slowhand: The Story of Eric Clapton, Proteus Books, 1985, 160 pp.

* Dave Thompson, Cream: The World's First Supergroup, Virgin Books, 2005, 256 pp.; rev., upd. & illustr. ed. titled Cream: How Eric Clapton Took the World By Storm, 2006, 320 pp.

* Steve Turner, Conversations with Eric Clapton, London: Abacus, 1976, 116 pp.

* Fred Weiler, Eric Clapton, Smithmark-Penguin or Bison Books, 1992, ... pp.

* Chris Welch, Cream: Stange Brew, Castle Communications or Sanctuary or Penguin, 1994, 176 pp.; Backbeat Books, 2000, 192 pp.

About Clapton's playing and sound :

External links

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood @ Bucharest (review)

An Interview with Eric Clapton Guitar Technician Lee Dickson

Article on Bluesbreakers Les Paul

Gibson article on obtaining the "Woman Tone"

Review: Eric Clapton at Floridita

Eric Clapton FAQ

http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/guitars-amps/fool-guitar-psychedelic-gibson-sg.html

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