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Milla nine
Every new year we see jah beside we
Every new year we see ah jah a guide we
More black people use to disappointment
So we didn't even ah watch last year happenings
Nah dwell pon di past ("kiss teeth")
You zimmi
Dah new year yah mi wah see di dollar sign deh
Mi nuh pree di past mi eye blind yea (oh)
Is ah new beginning mi ah look for
Mi nuh know weh two thousand nine deh
Fi two thousand and ten oh ten
Tank yuh father mi eye open
Mi spend a bagga songstar last year
Dar area ah sharer mi waan spend
Mi done wid every badmind old friend
Mi done wid every golddiger girlfriend
Mi ah save every money weh mi meck
Fi protect miself an mi pitney dem
Cah remember last year
January, february, march
Mi ah look fi di money but nut'n ever ah gwan
April, may, june
Mi ah look sameway mi nuh see weh money gone
Julyyyy august september nut'n sameway
October (nut'n) november (nut'n) december
[Chorus:]
This is a new year
Different design
Ghetto youte different state a mind
Mi ah hold ah different meditation
Tings weh mi do two thousand nine (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten
Ghetto youte it's dah talk you fi hear
Hope and faith bring in di new year
Mi member wen mi have ah one nike air
And mi one blue jeans did tear
Mi haffi sponge pon chegear fi ah beer
Beg ah spliff from boe over deh
Father god tru hope and meditation
In ih first bwoy launch ah career
But remember last year
January, febuary, march
Mi ah look fi di money but nut'n never gwan
April, may, june
Mi ah look sameway mi nuh see weh money gone
Julyyyy august septemberr nut'n sameway
October (nut'n) november (nut'n) december
[Chorus:]
This is a new year
Different design
Ghetto youte different state a mind
Mi ah hold ah different meditation
Tings weh mi do two thousand nine (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten
More black people use to disappointment
So we didn't even ah watch last year happenings
Nah dwell pon di past ("kissteeth")
You zimmi
Dah new year yah mi wah see di dollar sign deh
Mi nuh pree di past mi eye blind yea (oh)
Is ah new begining mi ah look for
Mi nuh know weh two thousand nine deh
Fi two thousand and ten oh ten
Tank yuh father mi eye open
Mi spend a bagga songstar last year
Dar area ah sharer mi waan spend
Mi done wid every badmind old friend
Mi done wid every golddiger girlfriend
Mi ah save every money weh mi meck
Fi protect miself an mi pitney dem
Cah remember last year
January, february, march
Mi ah look fi di money but nut'n never gwan
April, may, june
Mi ah look same way mi nuh see weh money gone
Julyyyy august september nut'n sameway
October (nut'n) november (nut'n) december
[Chorus:]
This is a new year
Different design
Ghetto youte different state a mind
Mi ah hold ah different meditation
Tings weh mi do two thousand nine (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
Two thousand and ten (dem different)
I was on Miami Beach
Saw the girl of my fantasy
She was into finer things
Bathing suits and diamond belly rings
She was something like I've never seen
Made me blow the whistle like the referee
Inside her is where I plan to be
And so to get her I'd do anything
Maybe even start a family
Or even get a house in Sandy Springs
She's so lovely like a melody
So baby, won't you come and jam with me?
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Like an instrumental
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Like an instrumental
Well come on over to my place
No need to be wasting time
You really must be from Outer Space
Cause' you really is blowing my mind
Now I done been from state to state
But I ain't never seen your kind
Cause' every single time I look at you
Sends a tingling down my spine
Well girl, you must be mighty exhausted
Running these laps through my mind so often
Cause' I been falling, and I been calling
I think I need a map cause' I'm so lost in
The things you do when you brush your hair
When you take it to the side and toss it over there
And it ain't that fair, cause' the way she move
I stare
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Like an instrumental
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Like an instrumental
And she's so cool
Cool like a pool in the middle of June
I sweep her off her feet
I guess you could say that I give her the broom
And she gets so international with it
Whenever she get in the mood
Cause' she's so Australlian
Down under on my didgeridoo
And she be killing it too, yeah
When she go in for the gold
Like a gymnast move
Oh, and what they saying is true
Yeah, a lady in the bed but a freak in the room
That's why she's cooly, cooly, cooly
Like a smoothie and jacuzzi
The opposite of Judge Judy
When she on duty
And she feeling me too
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Like an instrumental
And she was so cool
Like the other side of a pillow
So baby, let's groove
Meine Zeit wird kommen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Meine Zeit wird kommen
Hey, ich seh'es Dir doch an
Du denkst ich kriege nichts gebacken
Und darum pflanzt Du deine Zukunftsangst in meinen Nacken
Hey, Du willst'n Job bei der Deutschen Bank
Am Besten für ein Leben lang
Erst die Arbeit, was kommt dann
Ein Baby und ein Ehemann
Hey, ich bin noch nicht so weit
Ich brauch'n bisschen mehr Zeit
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010, wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010, wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Hey, Du sagst es macht doch keinen Sinn in der heutigen Realität
Du weißt noch nicht wohin, mit deiner Kreativität
Dann gehe doch zum Arbeitsamt und oute Dich als Künstler
Sie gaben mir eine Stelle als Frisör in Neumünster
Nein, nein, ich will mich nicht festlegen
Will mich noch ein Stück bewegen
Lebe in den Tag hinein
Brauch nicht viel zum überleben
Ich wohn' in einem Loch
Doch ich lebe noch
Ich bin noch nicht soweit
Ich brauche Zeit
3x)
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010, wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010, wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Meine Zeit wird kommen im Jahr 2010
Two Popes are left China wants Jerusalem President Elect
Ballot boxes underhanded. The luner eclipse Mother Earth
Is shakin' fleas the dog's creepin' in animals are followin'
They've got yer friends under wraps by the government
We're close to the end yer just a man, ya can't predict.
Two thousand and ten, law none average washed up waters,
Last one on earth aliens, Nixon, Johnson,
Reagan all for one and all, assassination.
Roswell was no balloon Oswald was not alone
You Know You're Framed
When All Gets Walled
Nothing In,
And Nothing Out
Buildings Fall,
And Profits Rise
The Truth Is Burned
You Fall In Line
2010
Marching Towards The End
2010
The Struggle Carries On
Bethlehem,
Behind Those Walls
Jerusalem,
Stained in Blood
Evil Men
Control Our Fate
Wicked Men,
Signal Our End.
2010
Marching Towards The End
2010
The Struggle Carries On
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Music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song). (C) 2010 Sony Music ...
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Music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song). (C) 2010 Sony Music ...
- published: 04 Jun 2010
- views: 517188864
- author: shakiraVEVO
YouTube Rewind 2010: Year in Review
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- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
See what the world watched on YouTube in 2010 with YouTube Rewind: http://www.youtube.com/rewind Re-watch the year's most popular videos and use the interact...
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See what the world watched on YouTube in 2010 with YouTube Rewind: http://www.youtube.com/rewind Re-watch the year's most popular videos and use the interact...
- published: 13 Dec 2010
- views: 1173887
- author: YouTube
Janey Cutler - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 4
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- Duration: 6:08
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Britain's Got Talent: 80-year-old Janey Cutler has been told she has a wonderful singing voice, and her friends have been egging her on to enter the competit...
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Britain's Got Talent: 80-year-old Janey Cutler has been told she has a wonderful singing voice, and her friends have been egging her on to enter the competit...
- published: 08 May 2010
- views: 13383937
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
Pop Danthology 2010 - 2012
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- Duration: 18:57
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Daniel Kim (http://www.youtube.com/user/kimaginati0n) produced these three mashups from 2010 thru 2012. I simply edited them all together in to one 18-minute...
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Daniel Kim (http://www.youtube.com/user/kimaginati0n) produced these three mashups from 2010 thru 2012. I simply edited them all together in to one 18-minute...
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 908236
- author: Dave Martin
Bhangra Empire @ Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational 2010
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Bhangra Empire representing US West from California's Bay Area, performing @ Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational 2010, The East Coast's most anticipated Bhangra Com...
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Bhangra Empire representing US West from California's Bay Area, performing @ Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational 2010, The East Coast's most anticipated Bhangra Com...
- published: 08 Jun 2010
- views: 1722128
- author: harjothundal
APA Format Setup in Word 2010
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- Duration: 5:13
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
UPDATED VERSION: http://bit.ly/ogujTD Recorded and produced by Patrick S. Love for the Daytona State College Writing Center, 2011. NOTE: At 4:12, I didn't re...
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UPDATED VERSION: http://bit.ly/ogujTD Recorded and produced by Patrick S. Love for the Daytona State College Writing Center, 2011. NOTE: At 4:12, I didn't re...
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 30597
- author: DSCWritingCenter
Tutorial 1 :- What is sharepoint 2010 , sharepoint foundation 2010 and sharepoint server 2010 ?
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- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
In this video we will understand what is sharepoint 2010 , differences between sharepoint foundation and sharepoint server 2010 and finally we will try to un...
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- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 230124
- author: dnfvideo
Lena - Satellite (Germany)
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Powered by http://www.eurovision.tv Lena will represent Germany with the song Satellite at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo (Norway), taking place on...
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Powered by http://www.eurovision.tv Lena will represent Germany with the song Satellite at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo (Norway), taking place on...
- published: 24 Mar 2010
- views: 39107847
- author: eurovision
2010 Winter Olympics Yuna Kim LP Gershwin Piano Concerto
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Olympic gold medalist Yuna Kim 2010 \Winter Olympics Yuna Kim LP 2010 Winter Olympics Yuna Kim LP Gershwin Piano Concerto.
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Olympic gold medalist Yuna Kim 2010 \Winter Olympics Yuna Kim LP 2010 Winter Olympics Yuna Kim LP Gershwin Piano Concerto.
- published: 10 Nov 2010
- views: 1280953
- author: yjh4400
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
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- Duration: 20:57
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
http://www.ted.com In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools t...
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http://www.ted.com In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools t...
- published: 24 May 2010
- views: 592675
- author: TEDtalksDirector
The 2010 State of the Union Address
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- Duration: 69:45
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President Obama speaks about restoring security for middle class families after a lost decade of declining wages, eroding retirement security and escalating ...
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President Obama speaks about restoring security for middle class families after a lost decade of declining wages, eroding retirement security and escalating ...
- published: 28 Jan 2010
- views: 486586
- author: whitehouse
The Regurgitator - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 2
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Britain's Got Talent: The act featured in this clip is extremely dangerous. Under no circumstances should this act be attempted at home. 47-year-old Stevie S...
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Britain's Got Talent: The act featured in this clip is extremely dangerous. Under no circumstances should this act be attempted at home. 47-year-old Stevie S...
- published: 24 Apr 2010
- views: 17885790
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
World Cup 2010 - Top 10 goals ~HD~
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- Duration: 6:27
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Made by Rico Emmink World Cup 2010 - Top 10 goals ~HD~ The 10 best goals from the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South - Africa (My 10 best goals) Music: Shakira - W...
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Made by Rico Emmink World Cup 2010 - Top 10 goals ~HD~ The 10 best goals from the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South - Africa (My 10 best goals) Music: Shakira - W...
- published: 04 Aug 2010
- views: 3467273
- author: Rico Emmink
2010 National Championship - Duke vs Butler
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- Duration: 14:16
- Updated: 08 Apr 2013
Vote Now For the All-Time March Madness Players, Teams and Moments! http://www.ncaa.com/75-moments.
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Vote Now For the All-Time March Madness Players, Teams and Moments! http://www.ncaa.com/75-moments.
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 5698
- author: ncaaondemand
Ну погоди (Новый сезон 2010/20)
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- Duration: 10:54
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Полюбившийся мультфильм, продолжение.
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Полюбившийся мультфильм, продолжение.
- published: 04 Dec 2010
- views: 29078283
- author: multserialofficial
Sniper, 2010
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Снайпер, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWTD41XKVuc Жанр: боевик,криминальная драма. Режиссер: Андрей Щербинин В ролях: Алексей Комашко, Александр Баран...
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Снайпер, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWTD41XKVuc Жанр: боевик,криминальная драма. Режиссер: Андрей Щербинин В ролях: Алексей Комашко, Александр Баран...
- published: 13 Jul 2011
- views: 1959553
- author: CHANDR63
Tobias Mead - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 1
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Britain's Got Talent: At first you wonder why Tobias' hoody is on the wrong way around, but soon it becomes clear. With his body popping and fluid movements ...
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Britain's Got Talent: At first you wonder why Tobias' hoody is on the wrong way around, but soon it becomes clear. With his body popping and fluid movements ...
- published: 17 Apr 2010
- views: 20231871
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
Microsoft Access 2010 Tutorial Part 01 of 12 - Database Terminology
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- Duration: 12:24
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Learn MORE Access at http://599CD.com/X0DIZX. We will begin by learning about databases in general, some important database terminology, the progression from...
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Learn MORE Access at http://599CD.com/X0DIZX. We will begin by learning about databases in general, some important database terminology, the progression from...
- published: 25 Nov 2011
- views: 234384
- author: 599CD
Top Gun 2010 - "Oops Moments"
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Read the full review/article loading with pictures http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=1250 http://www.rcuniverse.com -World's ...
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Read the full review/article loading with pictures http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=1250 http://www.rcuniverse.com -World's ...
- published: 05 Jul 2010
- views: 1623885
- author: rcuniverse
Os 10 Vídeos Mais Engraçados de 2010
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
Siga: http://twitter.com/thalesazamor Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lista-10/164869370204700 Blog: http://lista10.org.
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Siga: http://twitter.com/thalesazamor Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lista-10/164869370204700 Blog: http://lista10.org.
- published: 30 Dec 2010
- views: 9715443
- author: LISTA10blog
Argentina vs Alemania 0-4 Copa del Mundo Sudafrica 2010 Televisa Deportes (Parte 1)
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- Duration: 10:15
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
Partido- 59 Dia- 3 Jul Hora- 09:00 am Lugar- Green Point.
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Partido- 59 Dia- 3 Jul Hora- 09:00 am Lugar- Green Point.
- published: 06 May 2011
- views: 379756
- author: Edgar Vargas
Invention of Love (2010) - Animated Short Film
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- Duration: 9:45
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
A love story from the world of gears and bolts. Animated short 2010 (Graduation project) Inspired by Lotte Reiniger works and Antony Lucas's Jasper Morello f...
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A love story from the world of gears and bolts. Animated short 2010 (Graduation project) Inspired by Lotte Reiniger works and Antony Lucas's Jasper Morello f...
- published: 25 Aug 2010
- views: 4239394
- author: Andrey Shushkov
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
11 Apr 2013
The US is ready to defend itself against anything North Korea might launch, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said, as its ally South Korea confirmed its ability to intercept the North's missiles. At a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Hagel told reporters that the US "is fully prepared to deal with any contingency, any action that North Korea may take or any provocation that they may instigate," Hagel added ... 423 Source.. Agencies ... News ... ....(size: 7.3Kb)
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12 Apr 2013
BARACK Obama urged North Korea to end its "belligerent approach", as a US military intelligence assessment suggested Pyongyang could place a nuclear warhead on a missile. The dire warning from Washington about the North's nuclear capabilities, revealed by a US politican, came as all eyes were on Pyongyang, which was widely expected to soon launch a missile and trigger a new cycle of tension ... 1 man of conviction and will" ... AFP. ....(size: 5.0Kb)
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12 Apr 2013
Top US officials urged China on Friday to use all its leverage to stop North Korea’s “destabilising” actions on the Korean peninsula, saying it was in regional and global interests ... “That gives us and the Chinese a very powerful objective in common in denuclearisation,” he said, adding the US wanted Beijing to evoke “a new sense of urgency” in its conversations with Pyongyang about its nuclear programme ... to show our allies. ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)
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12 Apr 2013
China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in the first study to link the burning of fossil fuels to one country's rise in its daily temperature spikes. China emits more of the greenhouse gas than the next two biggest carbon polluters — the U.S. and India — combined. And its emissions keep soaring by about 10 percent per year ... That didn't produce it....(size: 5.0Kb)
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By Shahab Jafry. Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. if you are interested in contributing. Despite the longevity of America's Afghan campaign, including the spillover into Pakistan's tribal area, few in the international press really understand the true nature of the Taliban threat, especially its association with al-Qaeda ... Yet the Americans find this difficult to understand....(size: 5.9Kb)
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13 Apr 2013
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13 Apr 2013
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This article is about the year 2010. For other uses, see 2010 (disambiguation).
| 2010 : January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December |
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s 1990s 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 2030s 2040s |
| Years: | 2007 2008 2009 – 2010 – 2011 2012 2013 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2010 MMX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2763 |
| Armenian calendar | 1459 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6760 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 166–167 |
| Bengali calendar | 1417 |
| Berber calendar | 2960 |
| British Regnal year | 58 Eliz. 2 – 59 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2554 |
| Burmese calendar | 1372 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7518–7519 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年十一月十七日 (4646/4706-11-17) — to —
庚寅年十一月廿六日(4647/4707-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 1726–1727 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2002–2003 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5770–5771 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2066–2067 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1932–1933 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5111–5112 |
| Holocene calendar | 12010 |
| Iranian calendar | 1388–1389 |
| Islamic calendar | 1431–1432 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 22 (平成22年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4343 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 99 民國99年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2553 |
| Unix time | 1262304000–1293839999 |
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2010 (MMX) was a common year that started on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2010th year of Anno Domini or the Common Era designation; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st of the 2010s.
2010 was designated the:
Pronouncing 2010 and subsequent years[link]
Main article: 2010s
Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "two thousand (and) ten",[1] or "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten". 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000–09 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and one, two, three, etc....") or "two thousand (one, two, three, etc.") as opposed to the less common "twenty oh...."
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 3 – The United States and the United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen due to the ongoing security threat by Al Qaeda.
- January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.[2][3][4]
- January 8 – The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations.[5]
- January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 230,000[6][7][8] it is one of the deadliest on record.
- January 15 – The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.
- January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.
February[link]
- February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.[9][10][11]
- February 12 – February 28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
- February 18 – The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace[12] and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.[13]
- February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.[14] The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.
March[link]
- March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.[15]
- March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.[16][17]
April[link]
- April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid fierce rioting, sparking a sociopolitical crisis. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is placed at the head of an interim government as the opposition seizes control.[18]
- April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia.[19][20]
- April 13 – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000.[21]
- April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.[22][23][24]
- April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.[25][26]
- April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk four days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value,[27][27][28] and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.
May[link]
- May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.[29]
- May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.[30][31][32]
- May 7 – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.[33][34]
- May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.[35]
- May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.[36][37]
- May 20
- Scientists announce that they have created a functional synthetic genome.[38]
- Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[39][40]
- May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.[41]
- May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.[42][43]
June[link]
- June 9 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks results in the deaths of hundreds.[44]
- June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
July[link]
- July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.[45]
- July 25 – Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.[46]
- July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding (pictured) in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.[47]
August[link]
- August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.[48]
October[link]
- October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.[49]
- October 13 – Thirty-three miners near Copiapó, Chile, trapped 700 metres underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, are brought back to the surface after surviving for a record 69 days.[50]
- October 22 – The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).[51][52]
- October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.[53]
- October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing.[54]
- October 26 – ongoing[when?] – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill three hundred people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.[55][56][57]
November[link]
- November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.[58]
- November 11 – November 12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.[59]
- November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest.[60]
- November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.[61]
- November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issued the Lisbon Summit Declaration.
- November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis.[62][63][64]
- November 22 – A stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347.[65]
- November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident caused an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompted widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declared it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.[66][67][68]
- November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".[69][70]
- November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.[71]
- November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it served too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).[72][73]
December[link]
- December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place.[74][75]
Deaths[link]
Main article: Deaths in 2010
Further information: Category:2010 deaths
January[link]
- January 4
- Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916)
- January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925)
- January 11
- Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
- Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920)
- January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
- January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1950)
- January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
- January 17
- Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
- Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)
- January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (b. 1946)
- January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
- January 22
- Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932)
- Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)
- January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
- January 27
- Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933)
- J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919)
- Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)
February[link]
- February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
- February 6 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (b. 1927)
- February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936)
- February 10 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
- February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969)
- February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920)
- February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (b. 1922)
- February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
- February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
March[link]
- March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
- March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945)
- March 10
- Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
- Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
- March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920)
- March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
- March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
- March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919)
- March 22
- James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
- Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946)
- March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930)
- March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921)
- March 28
- Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
- June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1912)
- March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911)
April[link]
- April 1 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
- April 3 – Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941)
- April 5 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- April 6 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
- April 8
- Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946)
- Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925)
- April 10
- Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919)
- Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (b. 1949)
- April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
- April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
- April 19 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1966)
- April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920)
- April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
- April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911)
May[link]
- May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
- May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
- May 5
- Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910)
- Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
- May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
- May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
- May 15 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
- May 16
- Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942)
- Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921)
- Hank Jones, American pianist (b. 1918)
- May 17
- Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
- Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (b. 1951)
- Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
- May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930)
- May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914)
- May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972)
- May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
- May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
- May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)
June[link]
- June 1 – Andrey Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933)
- June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916)
- June 3
- Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
- Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
- June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
- June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
- June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
- June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (b. 1911)
- June 18
- Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
- José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
- June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
- June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
- June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
- June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)
July[link]
- July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (b. 1934)
- July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (b. 1937)
- July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (b. 1935)
- July 5
- Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
- Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943)
- July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
- July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
- July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (b. 1947)
- July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (b. 1916)
- July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
August[link]
- August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920)
- August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
- August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
- August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
- August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
- August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967)
- August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
- August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
- August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
- August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristrocrat (b. 1930)
- August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923)
- August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
- August 26 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
- August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
- August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922)
- August 30
- Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)
- Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
- August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)
September[link]
- September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, MotoGP racer (b. 1990)
- September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
- September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914)
- September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930)
- September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (b. 1928)
- September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
- September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
- September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922)
- September 29
- Georges Charpak, French physicist (b. 1924)
- Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
- September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (b. 1941)
October[link]
- October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915)
- October 7 – Milka Planinc, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
- October 9 – Maurice Allais, French economist (b. 1911)
- October 10
- Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940)
- Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923)
- October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926)
- October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
- October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
- October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
- October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
- October 25 – Gregory Issacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
- October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950)
- October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
- October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
November[link]
- November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
- November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
- November 5
- Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
- Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913)
- November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
- November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
- November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (b. 1921)
- November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923)
- November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
- November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937)
December[link]
- December 12 – Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
- December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
- December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
- December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
- December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927)
- December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
- December 26
- Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
- Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
- Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
- Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa
- Peace – Liu Xiaobo
- Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
- Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards
Major religious holidays[link]
- January 7 (January 6 in Armenia) – Orthodox Christmas.
- February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
- February 2 – Candlemas commemorating the Purification of the Virgin. It marks the liturgical end of the Christmas season.
- February 16 – Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season.
- February 17 – Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent).
- March 1 – Holi.
- March 20 (March 21 in the Far East) – Vernal Equinox, also known as Nowruz.
- March 24 – Rama Navami.
- March 29 (evening) – Passover.
- March 30 – Hanuman Jayanti.
- April 4 – Easter (Western and Orthodox).
- May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
- May 18–May 19 – Shavuot.
- August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
- August 11 – Ramadan begins.
- August 24 – Raksha Bandhan.
- September 2 – Krishna Janmashtami.
- September 8–September 10 – Rosh Hashanah.
- September 10 – Eid ul-Fitr.
- September 17–September 18 – Yom Kippur.
- September 22–September 29/September 30 – Sukkot.
- September 23 – Autumnal Equinox, also known as Mabon.
- November 5 – Diwali.
- November 16–November 19 – Eid al-Adha.
- December 25 – Western Christmas.
In fiction[link]
Main article: Works of fiction set in 2010
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-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.[2] Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"[3] and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.[4]
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market.[5] Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards,[6] in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music.[7] In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.[8]
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Early life[link]
Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929 d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 – 15 May 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec.[9] 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 Clapp, who was stepfather to Patricia Clapton and her brother Adrian, believing they were his parents and that his mother was actually his older sister. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather).[10] Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany,[11] leaving young Eric with his grandparents in Surrey.[12]
Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest.[12] Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently.[12] Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records.[13] He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder, listening to them over and over until he felt he'd got it right.[13][14]
After leaving Hollyfield School, in Surbiton, in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston College of Art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. His guitar playing was so advanced that by the age of 16 he was getting noticed.[14] Around this time Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, and the West End.[15] In 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey.[14] When he was seventeen years old Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group, "The Roosters", whose other guitarist was Tom McGuinness. He stayed with this band from January through August 1963.[16] In October of that year, Clapton did a seven-gig stint with Casey Jones & The Engineers.[16]
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1960s[link]
The Yardbirds and the Bluesbreakers[link]
Main articles: The Yardbirds and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
In October 1963 Clapton joined The Yardbirds, a blues-influenced rock and roll band, and stayed with them until March 1965. Synthesising influences from Chicago blues and leading blues guitarists such as Buddy Guy, Freddie King, and B. B. King, Clapton forged a distinctive style and rapidly became one of the most talked-about guitarists in the British music scene.[17] 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 in 1965.
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".[18]
In March 1965 the Yardbirds had their first major hit, "For Your Love", on which Clapton played guitar. The Yardbirds elected to move toward a pop-oriented sound, in part because of the success of "For Your Love", written by pop songwriter-for-hire Graham Gouldman, who had also written hit songs for Herman's Hermits and The Hollies. Still musically devoted to the blues, Clapton was opposed to the move, and left the band. He 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.[17] While Beck and Page played together in the Yardbirds, the trio of Beck, Page, and Clapton were never in the group together. However, the trio did appear on the 12-date benefit tour for Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis in 1983, as well as on the album Guitar Boogie.
Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in April 1965, only to quit a few months later. In the summer of 1965 he left for Greece with a band called The Glands, which included his old friend Ben Palmer on piano. In November 1965 he rejoined John Mayall. During his second Bluesbreakers stint, Clapton gained a reputation as the best blues guitarist on the club circuit. Although Clapton gained world fame for his playing on the influential album, Blues Breakers – John Mayall – With Eric Clapton, this album was not released until Clapton had left the Bluesbreakers for the last time. Having swapped his Fender Telecaster and Vox AC30 amplifier for a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar and Marshall amplifier, Clapton's sound and playing inspired a well-publicised graffiti that deified him with the famous slogan "Clapton is God". The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967. The graffiti was captured in a now-famous photograph, in which a dog is urinating on the wall. Clapton is reported to have been embarrassed by the slogan, saying in his The South Bank Show profile in 1987, "I never accepted that I was the greatest guitar player in the world. I always wanted to be the greatest guitar player in the world, but that's an ideal, and I accept it as an ideal". The phrase began to appear in other areas of Islington throughout the mid 1960s.[19]
Cream[link]
Main article: Cream (band)
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 Organisation) and Ginger Baker on drums (another member of the Graham Bond Organisation). 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.[20] 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.[17] Cream's first gig was an unofficial performance at the Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester on 29 July 1966 before their full debut two nights later at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor. Cream established its enduring legend with the high-volume blues jamming and extended solos of their live shows.
In early 1967 Clapton's status as Britain's top guitarist was rivalled by the emergence of Jimi Hendrix, an acid rock-infused guitarist who used wailing feedback and effects pedals to create new sounds for the instrument. Hendrix attended a performance of the newly-formed Cream at the Central London Polytechnic on 1 October 1966, during which Hendrix sat in on a double-timed version of "Killing Floor". Top UK stars including Clapton, Pete Townshend, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles avidly attended Hendrix's early club performances. Hendrix's arrival had an immediate and major effect on the next phase of Clapton's career, although Clapton continued to be recognised in UK music polls as the premier guitarist.
Clapton first visited the United States while touring with Cream. In March 1967, Cream performed a nine-show stand at the RKO Theater in New York. They recorded Disraeli Gears in New York from 11–15 May 1967. Cream's repertoire varied from hard rock ("I Feel Free") to lengthy blues-based instrumental jams ("Spoonful"). Disraeli Gears featured Clapton's searing guitar lines, Bruce's soaring vocals and prominent, fluid bass playing, and Baker's powerful, polyrhythmic jazz-influenced drumming. Together, Cream's talents secured them as an influential power trio.
In 28 months, Cream had become a commercial success, selling millions of records and playing throughout the U.S. and Europe. They redefined the instrumentalist's role in rock and were one of the first blues-rock bands to emphasise musical virtuosity and lengthy jazz-style improvisation sessions. Their U.S. hit singles include "Sunshine of Your Love" (#5, 1968), "White Room" (#6, 1968) and "Crossroads" (#28, 1969) – a live version of Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues". Though Cream was hailed as one of the greatest groups of its day, and the adulation of Clapton as a guitar hero reached new heights, the supergroup was short-lived. Drug and alcohol use escalated tension between the three members, and conflicts between Bruce and Baker eventually led to Cream's demise. A strongly critical Rolling Stone review of a concert of the group's second headlining U.S. tour was another significant factor in the trio's demise, and it affected Clapton profoundly.[21]
Cream's farewell album, Goodbye, featuring live performances recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, 19 October 1968, was released shortly after Cream disbanded; it also featured the studio single "Badge", co-written by Clapton and George Harrison. Clapton met Harrison and became 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 (1968). Harrison also released his solo debut album, Wonderwall Music, in 1968. It became the first of many Harrison solo records to feature Clapton on guitar. 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 a tribute concert, for which he was musical director.[22]
Cream briefly reunited in 1993 to perform at the ceremony inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; a full reunion took place in May 2005, with Clapton, Bruce, and Baker playing four sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall,[23] and three shows at New York's Madison Square Garden that October.[24] 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.[25]
Blind Faith and Delaney and Bonnie and Friends[link]
Main articles: Blind Faith and Delaney and Bonnie and Friends
Clapton's next group, Blind Faith (1969), was composed of Cream drummer Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood of Traffic, and Ric Grech of Family, and yielded one LP and one arena-circuit tour. The supergroup debuted before 100,000 fans in London's Hyde Park on 7 June 1969. They performed several dates in Scandinavia and began a sold-out American tour in July before their only album was released. The LP Blind Faith consisted of just six 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.
Clapton subsequently toured as a sideman for an act that had opened for Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. He also played two dates as a member of The Plastic Ono Band that autumn, including a recorded performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in September 1969 released as the album Live Peace in Toronto 1969.[26] On 15 December 1969 Clapton performed with John Lennon, George Harrison, and others as the Plastic Ono Band at a fundraiser for UNICEF in London.[26]
Delaney Bramlett encouraged Clapton 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 two tracks.
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,[27] and Bonnie Bramlett co-wrote "Let It Rain".[28] The album 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.
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Derek and the Dominos[link]
Main article: Derek and the Dominos
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With the intention to counteract the "star" cult faction that had begun to form around him, Clapton assembled a new band composed of Delaney and 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 fill a starring role, and functioned well as a member of an ensemble.[29] 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.[30] Clapton's biography states that Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke 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".[31]
Clapton's close friendship with George Harrison 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 (1970). Heavily blues-influenced, the album features the twin lead guitars of Duane Allman and Clapton, with Allman's slide guitar as a key ingredient of the sound. 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 album features the hit love song "Layla", inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. 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.[32][33] 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.[31]
The Layla LP was actually recorded by a five-piece version of the group, thanks to the unforeseen inclusion of guitarist Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band. A few days into the Layla sessions, Dowd—who was also producing the Allmans—invited Clapton to an Allman Brothers outdoor concert in Miami. The two guitarists met first on stage, then played all night in the studio, and became friends. Duane first added his slide guitar to "Tell the Truth" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". In four days, the five-piece Dominos recorded "Key to the Highway", "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (a blues standard popularised by Freddie King and others), and "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad". In September, Duane briefly left the sessions for gigs with his own band, and the four-piece Dominos recorded "I Looked Away", "Bell Bottom Blues", and "Keep on Growing". Duane returned to record "I am Yours", "Anyday", and "It's Too Late". On 9 September, they recorded Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the title track. The following day, the final track, "It's Too Late", was recorded.[34]
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.[35] 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 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.[17]
Solo career[link]
Clapton's career successes in the 1970s were in stark contrast with his personal life, which was troubled by romantic longings and drug and alcohol addiction.[36] While suffering 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, which resulted 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).[17] In January 1973, The Who's Pete Townshend organised a comeback concert for Clapton at London's Rainbow Theatre, aptly titled the "Rainbow Concert", to help Clapton kick his addiction. Clapton would return the favour by playing 'The Preacher' in Ken Russell's film version of The Who's Tommy in 1975; his appearance in the film (performing "Eyesight to the Blind") is notable as he is clearly wearing a fake beard in some shots, the result of deciding to shave off his real beard after the initial takes in an attempt to force the director to remove his earlier scene from the movie and leave the set.[31]
In 1974, now partnered with Pattie (they would not actually marry until 1979) and no longer using heroin (although starting to drink heavily), Clapton put together a more low-key touring band that included Radle, Miami guitarist George Terry, keyboardist Dick Sims (who died in 2011 [37]), drummer Jamie Oldaker, and vocalists Yvonne Elliman and Marcy Levy (also known as Marcella Detroit). With this band Clapton recorded 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974), an album with an emphasis on more compact songs and fewer guitar solos; the cover version of "I Shot The Sheriff" was Clapton's first #1 hit and was important in bringing reggae and the music of Bob Marley to a wider audience. The 1975 album There's One in Every Crowd continued this trend. The album's original title, The World's Greatest Guitar Player (There's One In Every Crowd), was changed before pressing, as it was felt its ironic intention would be misunderstood. The band toured the world and subsequently released the 1975 live LP, E.C. Was Here.[38] 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); Slowhand, which featured "Wonderful Tonight" (another song inspired by Boyd);[39] and a second J.J. Cale cover, "Cocaine". In 1976 he performed, alongside a string of notable guests, to pay tribute to the farewell performance of The Band, filmed in a Martin Scorsese documentary called the Last Waltz.
1980s[link]
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. 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.[40][41]
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 in a large number of drinks, for fear he would 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 any more 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."[42]
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 13 July 1985.[43] When offered a slot 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.
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 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 unimpressed "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.
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.[44] Boyd criticised Clapton because he had not revealed the child's existence.[45]
At the 1987 Brit Awards in London, Clapton picked up the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[46] 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 stories about Eric's secret daughter began as a result of newspaper articles published at the time.[44] Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1988 following his affair with Italian model Lory Del Santo, who gave birth to their son, Conor, on 21 August 1986.[47] Boyd was never able to conceive children, despite attempts at in vitro fertilisation.[45][47] Their divorce was granted on grounds of "infidelity and unreasonable behaviour."[45]
Clapton was known to date a host of beautiful women, including Krissy Wood (ex-wife of Ron Wood), actress Charlotte Martin, socialite Alice Ormsby-Gore, Paula Boyd (the younger sister of his future wife Pattie), singer Janis Joplin, singer Marianne Faithfull, rock muses Catherine James, Cyrinda Fox, and Geraldine Edwards, the inspiration for Penny Lane in Almost Famous, singer Rosanne Cash, the First Lady of France and former model Carla Bruni, and actresses Patsy Kensit, Sharon Stone, and Alicia Witt.[48]
1990s[link]
The 1990s brought a series of 32 concerts to the Royal Albert Hall, such as the 24 Nights series of concerts that took place around January through February 1990, and February through March 1991. On 27 August 1990, fellow blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was touring with Clapton, and three members of their road crew were killed in a helicopter crash between concerts. Then, on 20 March 1991, Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of his mother's friend's New York City apartment at 117 East 57th Street. He landed on the roof of an adjacent four-story building. 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 six Grammy Awards for the single "Tears in Heaven" and his Unplugged album.[49] The album reached number one on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified Diamond by the RIAA for selling over 10 million copies in the United States.[50] On 9 September 1992, Clapton performed "Tears in Heaven" at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, and won the award for Best Male Video.[51][52]
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.[53] 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 new material for almost a decade.[41] Clapton finished the twentieth century with collaborations with Carlos Santana and B. B. King.
In 1996 Clapton had a relationship with singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow. They remain friends, and Clapton appeared as a guest on Crow's Central Park Concert. The duo performed a Cream hit single, "White Room". Later, Clapton and Crow performed an alternate version of "Tulsa Time" with other guitar legends at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in June 2007.
In 1998 Clapton, then 53, met 22-year-old administrative assistant Melia McEnery in Columbus, Ohio, at a party given for him after a performance. He quietly dated her for a year, and went public with the relationship in 1999. They married on 1 January 2002 at St Mary Magdalene church in Clapton's birthplace, Ripley. As of 2005 they have three daughters, Julie Rose (13 June 2001), Ella May (14 January 2003), and Sophie Belle (1 February 2005).
At the 41st Grammy Awards on 24 February 1999, Clapton received his third Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, for his song "My Father's Eyes".[54] In October 1999, the compilation album, Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton, was released, which contained a new song, "Blue Eyes Blue", that also appears in soundtrack for the film, Runaway Bride.[55][56]
2000s[link]
Following the release of the 2001 record Reptile, in June 2002, Clapton performed "Layla" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Party at the Palace concert in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.[57] On 29 November 2002, the Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall, a tribute to George Harrison, who had died a year earlier of cancer.[58] Clapton was a performer and the musical director. The concert featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ravi Shankar, Gary Brooker, Billy Preston, Joe Brown and Dhani Harrison.[58] In 2004, Clapton released two albums of covers of songs by bluesman Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. Johnson and Sessions for Robert J. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Clapton #53 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[59]
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 supporting 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/songwriter Roger Waters at the Highclere Castle, Hampshire, in support of the Countryside Alliance.[60] 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.[61] 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 at his 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Trucks remained on set afterward, performed with Clapton's band throughout his performances, and later embarked 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 US$4 million.[62]
On 26 February 2008, it was reported that North Korean officials had invited Clapton to play a concert in the communist state.[63] Clapton's management received the invitation and passed it on to the singer, who agreed in principle and suggested it take place sometime in 2009.[64] 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."[65]
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, and finally pieced 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.[66] Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at Macdonald Cartier Airport, in Ottawa, Canada.[67]
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 and John Mayer.[68][69] 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.
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 was not 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". 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.[70] Van Morrison (who also cancelled)[71] 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".[72]
2010s[link]
Clapton performed a two-night show with Jeff Beck at London's O2 Arena on 13–14 February 2010.[73] The two former Yardbirds extended their 2010 tour with stops at Madison Square Garden,[74] the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and the Bell Centre in Montreal.[75] Clapton performed a series of concerts in 11 cities throughout the United States from 25 February to 13 March 2010, including Roger Daltrey as opening act. His third European tour with Steve Winwood began on 18 May and ended 13 June, including Tom Norris as opening act. 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 at Toyota Park 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.[76]
On 24 June 2011 Clapton was in concert with Pino Daniele in Cava de' Tirreni stadium, Italy, with an audience of 15,000 people before performing a series of concerts in South America from 6 to 16 October 2011. He spent the November and December 2011 touring Japan with Steve Winwood, playing 13 shows in various cities throughout the country. On 24 February 2012 Clapton, Keith Richards, Gary Clark Jr., Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Kim Wilson and other artists performed together in the Howlin' For Hubert Tribute concert held at the Apollo Theater of NYC honoring blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin who died at age 80 in 4 December.
Influences[link]
Clapton cites Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Hubert Sumlin as guitar playing influences. Clapton stated blues musician Robert Johnson to be his single most important influence. In 2004 Clapton released CDs and DVDs entitled Sessions for Robert Johnson, featuring Clapton covering Robert Johnson songs using electric and acoustic guitars.[77]
Clapton co-authored with others the book Discovering Robert Johnson, in which Clapton said Johnson was[78]
"...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."
Legacy[link]
Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time.[2][79][80][81] 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.[82] He ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"[3] and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.[4]
Guitarists influenced by Clapton include Richie Sambora, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks,[83] Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Orianthi,Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Jonny Buckland, Joe Don Rooney, Alex Lifeson, Jonny Lang, John Mayer, Joe Satriani, Joe Bonamassa, Davy Knowles, and George Harrison.
Guitars[link]
Clapton's choice of electric guitars has been as notable as the man himself; alongside Hank Marvin, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Clapton exerted a crucial and widespread influence in popularising particular models of electric guitar.[84] 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 sunburst Gibson Les Paul guitar from a guitar store in London. Clapton commented on the slim profile of the neck, which would indicate it was a 1960 model.[85]
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)[86] until 1967, when he acquired his most famous guitar in this period, a 1964 Gibson SG.[87] 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.[87] The aforementioned 1964 ES-335 had a storied career. Clapton used it at the last Cream show in November 1968 as well as with Blind Faith, played it sparingly for slide pieces in the 1970s, used it on "Hard Times" from Journeyman, the Hyde Park live concert of 1996, and the From the Cradle sessions and tour of 1994–95. It was sold for US$847,500 at a 2004 auction.[88] Gibson produced a limited run of 250 "Crossroads 335" replicas. The 335 was only the second electric guitar Clapton bought.[89]
In July 1968 Clapton gave George Harrison a 1957 'goldtop' Gibson Les Paul that been refinished with a red colour. 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.[87] At the 1969 Blind Faith concert in Hyde Park, London Clapton played a Fender Custom Telecaster, which was fitted with "Brownie"'s neck.
In late 1969 Clapton made the switch to the Fender Stratocaster. "I had a lot of influences when I took up the Strat. First there was Buddy Holly, and Buddy Guy. Hank Marvin was the first well known person over here in England who was using one, but that wasn't really my kind of music. Steve Winwood had so much credibility, and when he started playing one, I thought, oh, if he can do it, I can do it."[90] The first—used during the recording of Eric Clapton—was "Brownie", 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.[91] Clapton called the 1956/57 Strat a "mongrel".[92] On 24 June 2004, Clapton sold "Blackie" at Christie's Auction House, New York, for US$959,500 to raise funds for his Crossroads Centre for drug and alcohol addictions. "Brownie" is now on display at the Experience Music Project.[93] 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 was used for three numbers during a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 17 May 2006.[94]
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."[95]
In 1988 Fender honoured Clapton with the introduction of his signature Eric Clapton Stratocaster.[96] These were the first two artist models in the Stratocaster range. Since then, the artist series has grown to include models inspired by Clapton's contemporaries such as Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and by those who have influenced him, such as Buddy Guy. Clapton uses Ernie Ball Slinky and Super Slinky strings, gauge .10 to.46.[97] Clapton has been honoured with several signature-model 000-sized acoustic guitars made by the American firm of C.F. Martin & Company. The first, of these, introduced in 1995, was a limited edition 000-42EC Eric Clapton signature model with a production run of 461. As of December 2007, Martin had produced seven EC signature models.[98] His 1939 000-42 Martin that he played on the Unplugged album sold for US$791,500 at auction.[88] Clapton plays a custom 000-ECHF Martin these days.
In 1999, Clapton auctioned off some of his guitar collection to raise more than US$5 million for continuing support of the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, which he founded in 1997.[99] 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 held on 24 June 2004. His Lowden acoustic guitar sold for US$41,825. The revenue garnered by this auction at Christie's was US$7,438,624.[88]
In 2010 Eric Clapton announced that he would be auctioning off over 150 items at a New York auction in 2011. Proceeds will benefit his Crossroads Centre in Antigua. Items include Clapton's guitar from the Cream reunion tour in 2005, speaker cabinets used in the early 1970s from his days with Derek and the Dominoes, and some guitars from Jeff Beck, J.J. Cale, and Joe Bonamassa.[100] In March 2011 Clapton raised more than US$2.15 million when he auctioned off key items, including a 1984 Gibson hollow body guitar, a Gianni Versace suit from his 1990 concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and a replica of the famous Fender Stratocaster known as "Blackie", which fetched more than $30,000. All proceeds from the auction were donated to Clapton's Crossroads drug and rehabilitation centre in Antigua.
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 solid body guitar (with Humbucker pick-ups) and a Marshall tube amplifier.[101] 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.[102]
Perhaps the best example of the "woman tone" is Clapton's famous riff and solo from 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[link]
Clapton frequently appears as a guest on the albums of other musicians. For example, he is credited on Dire Straits's Brothers in Arms album, as he lent Mark Knopfler one of his guitars. He 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.[103] In 1991 Clapton was featured on Richie Sambora's album, Stranger In This Town, in a song dedicated to him, called "Mr. Bluesman". He 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.[104] The concert was taped and the footage was released both on VHS video cassette and later, on DVD.[104]
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 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 appeared in an advertisement for the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen. In March 2007 Clapton appeared in an advertisement[105] 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 compared to God's image in the episode "Holy Crap!" of season two of That '70s Show when characters Eric Forman and Steven Hyde are asked by their minister to draw a picture of God.
Political views and advocacy[link]
Clapton is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance, he has played in concerts to raise funds for the organisation and he 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."[106]
In 2008, he donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.
Controversy over remarks on immigration[link]
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 as saying, "I think Enoch's right ... we should send them all back. Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"[107] The latter phrase was at the time a British National Front slogan.[108] 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!"[109]
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.[110]
In response to the 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 concluded, "P.S. Who shot the Sheriff, Eric? It sure as hell wasn't you!"[110]
In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton remarked, "I thought it was quite funny actually. I don't know much about politics. I don't even know if it would be good or bad for him to get in. I don't even know who the Prime Minister is now. I just don't know what came over me that night. It must have been something that happened in the day but it came out in this garbled thing... I thought the whole thing was like Monty Python. There's this rock group playing on-stage and the singer starts talking about politics. It's so stupid. Those people who paid their money sittin' listening to this madman dribbling on and the band meanwhile getting fidgety thinking 'oh dear'."[111]
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".[112] 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."[113] In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton reiterated his support for Enoch Powell and again denied that Powell's views were "racist".[114]
Wealth and assets[link]
In 2009 Surrey Life Magazine ranked Eric Clapton as number 17 in their list of richest Surrey residents, estimating Clapton's fortune at £120 million in assets. This was a compilation of property and income which include a £9 million yacht, "Va Bene" (previously owned by Bernie Ecclestone), his back music catalogue, his touring income, and his Marshbrook holding company, which had earned him £110 million since 1989.[115] In 2003, he purchased a 50 per cent share of gentleman's outfitters Cordings Piccadilly.[116] At the time, owner Noll Uloth was trying to save the shop from closure and thought 'I will go and talk to my best client". He is reported to have contacted Eric and within five minutes he had a reply saying 'I can't let this happen."[116]
Awards and honours[link]
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Football[link]
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 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 been reported that the club rejected his offer to invest cash in the club around this time, and that he has since expressed more of an interest in Chelsea.[124]
Clapton's music in film and TV[link]
- Mean Streets (1973) – "I Looked Away"
- Private Lessons (1981 film) (1981) – Next Time You See Her
- Purple Haze (1983) – "I Feel Free"
- The Hit (1984) – Score
- Miami Vice (1984–1989) – Four songs over the course of the show's five seasons: "Wonderful Tonight", "Knock On Wood", "She's Waiting", and "Layla"
- 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"[125]
- 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"
- Community episode – "Layla"
- The Good Guys Episode Silvio's Way – "Layla"
- Due Date (2010) – "White Room"
- Shameless (U.S. TV series) (2011) – "White Room"
Discography[link]
Main article: Eric Clapton discography
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Further reading[link]
- On Eric Clapton's career:
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- 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:
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- David M. Brewster (2003). "Eric Clapton". Introduction to Guitar Tone & Effects. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-634-06046-5.
- H. P. Newquist and Richard Maloof (2003). "Eric Clapton". The Blues-Rock Masters. Backbeat Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-87930-735-6.
- Pete Prown and Lisa Sharken (2003). "Eric Clapton". Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends. Backbeat Books. p. 6. ISBN 0-87930-751-X.
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- Eric Clapton collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Eric Clapton collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood at Bucharest (review)
- An Interview with Eric Clapton guitar technician Lee Dickson
- Article on Bluesbreakers Les Paul[dead link]
- Gibson article on obtaining the "Woman Tone"
- Review: Eric Clapton at Floridita
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| Name | Clapton, Eric |
| Alternative names | Clapton, Eric Patrick; Slowhand |
| Short description | guitarist, singer, and composer |
| Date of birth | 30 March 1945 |
| Place of birth | Ripley, Surrey, England |
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