For all of the great covers and bands that Eric Clapton has been in, the best of his solo material is practically baked into his musical DNA.

The Beatle and Clapton briefly crossed paths several times throughout the first half of the 1960s. However, they didn’t become friends until the latter part of the decade. In Martin Scorsese’s ...

Eric Clapton may have a lot of classics in his repertoire, but he felt that the best songs are the ones that transcend raw musical notes.

They’ve forged a close friendship over the years, but getting Slowhand to play an “insane” solo on his record wasn’t easy ...

Is Eric Clapton’s solo in Cream’s version of Crossroads the greatest live blues-rock solo ever recorded? Here, we pose the ...

One goal of the alternative rock guitarist is to avoid rock clichés. And one of rock’s biggest clichés is the guitar solo.

Everyone has his or her favorite guitar hero, but when it comes to blues-rock, you have to give it up for Eric Clapton. Starting with his groundbreaking work in the mid-60’s with The Yardbirds, and ...

During the 1960s, McCarty played with three of Britain's greatest guitarists under the Yardbirds bracket. Clapton was the ...

Eric Clapton is going on tour again in 2026 and will make stops in Germany. Fans can look forward to concerts in Mannheim, ...

George Harrison started playing slide guitar after seeing what Eric Clapton and other great guitarists were doing on the instrument in the mid-1960s. His interest in the sitar had taken over for a bit ...

Throughout his career spanning more than six decades, he has left an indelible mark as a guitarist, singer and songwriter, ...