Slowhand – The Story of Eric Clapton, Harry Shapiro

Eric Clapton is the world’s best known rock guitarist, but has always wanted to be just one of the crowd, plying his trade and pleasing the people. This conflict has resulted in periods of exile and excess, but, unlike many of his contemporaries, EC has survived with his family and his finely tuned skills intact. This biography, the first on Clapton since 1976, charts his story from the earliest days of R&B, the British blues boom, psychedelia, into the Seventies and up to Eric;s album produced by Phil Collins. As the illustrations show, each phase of Eric’s musical career has been accompanied by a new persona – as elegant in his style of dress as his style of playing.