Eric Clapton in Birmingham

Eric Clapton is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Ripley, Surrey, in 1945. He plays blues and rock, and was a member of the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos. With Derek and the Dominos he recorded “Layla”; his solo catalogue includes “Wonderful Tonight,” “Tears in Heaven,” 461 Ocean Boulevard and Slowhand. In 1992, he recorded a concert at Bray Studios for MTV Unplugged, including a reworked version of “Layla.” He organized the first Crossroads Guitar Festival at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas in 2004, and the following year reunited with Cream for concerts at Madison Square Garden. He has played long concert runs at London’s Royal Albert Hall, while repeated visits to Tokyo have brought him back to Nippon Budokan.