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Eric Clapton's 1974 Martin 000-28
Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ 1974 000-28 Martin acoustic is heading to auction (again)

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Clapton shed tears when the stalwart acoustic left his collection in 1999, and now it is up for sale once more, complete with Don Williams tribute sticker and cigarette burns

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JANUARY 01: ROYAL ALBERT HALL Photo of Eric CLAPTON, performing live onstage, playing Martin acoustic guitar
Eric Clapton and the song he said he'd never play live again

By Michael Leonard Published

"I was suddenly aware of the fact that there was a way to turn this dreadful tragedy into something positive"

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Eric Clapton onstage at Live Aid 1985, playing his 'Blackie' Stratocaster
Eric Clapton’s Marshall JCM800 that rocked 1.5 billion people at Live Aid is up for sale

By Jonathan Horsley Published

So you need an amp to play guitar in a stadium for a watching TV audience of over a billion people? Well, something has just come in... All you need is a cobbled together Strat

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English Blues and Rock musician Eric Clapton plays guitar as he performs onstage, San Francisco, California, August 1975
'The first thing you often hear on any blues record is a taster of what's to come': Here are 40 turnarounds to fire up your blues guitar playing

By Richard Barrett Published

Never be short of ideas again with this guide

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Photo of Howlin' Wolf performing live on stage with guitarist Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011) behind
"He showed me some things that Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson had taught him – he knew those people": Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf and their legendary blues legacy

By Julian Piper Published

Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitar sideman on his hard blues road

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CREAM 1967 Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce
“That was just the way it was at that point because Ahmet Ertegun was more or less in love with Eric. He thought Eric should be the frontman”: Cream and the trouble with Strange Brew

By Matt Frost Published

The classic opener to Disraeli Gears was never a favourite of Cream's members, and this is why

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John Lee Hooker performs on stage, London, circa 1996
John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"

By Guitarist magazine Published

Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame

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Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes
“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities

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Eric Clapton and Joe Bonamassa perform on stage at the Royal Albert Hall on May 4, 2009 in London, England
"For me it was either the beginning of the beginning or the beginning of the end": the night Eric Clapton guested with Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall and changed his career

By Rob Laing Published

"I can never repay him for what he did because he came out and did something that turned my career around"

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Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
"There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever

By Julian Piper, Jamie Dickson, David Mead Published

"When Jimi played with Cream... he walked offstage with this smirk; he knew exactly what he was doing" – we look back at the seismic impact of Clapton and Hendrix on the British guitar scene

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