Eric Clapton has been invited to play a concert in North Korea, despite the country’s nuclear ambitions being a cause for international concern.The guitar legend is provisionally set to play the state capital Pyongyang in 2009, having agreed to the idea "in principle" reports the BBC.Clapton's performance would be unusual as rock and pop are forbidden in the isolated state, because of their Wes.
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On October 9th Clapton will release both his aptly-titled autobiography Clapton: The Autobiography and double-disc career-spanning album Complete Clapton. Complete Clapton begins with Clapton's guitar career in bands like Blind Faith and Cream. Songs from his 40 year repertoire, which garnered 18 Grammys, also include his solo work beginning with his 1970 self-titled album and ending with 2005...
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Guitar legends including Buddy Guy, B.B King and Clapton himself played for about 28,000 at Eric Clapton's second Crossroads Guitar Festival on Saturday. Held in Bridgeview, Illinois' Toyota Park, just outside Chicago, the event lasted 11 hours with promising artist like Robert Randolph, Beck and John Mayer also on hand with their axes. The sold out event shadowed 2004's inaugural affair that l...
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Denver Broncos Cheerleader Renee.‘You know the sun is shining; it's raining in my heart. I don't know what to do since we've been apart. Why don't you tell me, babe, what is going on? …….. They're tearing us apart, They're breaking up my heart. I knew it from the start: Your friends are tearing us apart’. (ERIC CLAPTON)Hear ‘TEARING US APART’, ‘She’s Waiting’, ‘Before You Accus
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Hardly anybody realizes when people appreciate them in this world. Lords knows I've turned a blind eye myself a few times. But when somebody goes through the time and monetary trouble of doing so, then I think they deserve what I have been hearin' as a "Biggups"So that's what I'm sayin'., Bobby. Listen here, now and accept your biggups from this gentlemen, Mr. Eric Clapton. It seems you might b...
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I read the following in Tina Brown's latest aggregator, THE DAILY BEAST:One of the few pardons that President Bush gave this week was bestowed on a rapper and one-time backup singer for Carly Simon and producer for the Fugees. John Forte has already served eight years in prison for smuggling $1.4 million in liquid cocaine through the Newark airport. Forte also was a graduate of the Exeter Acade...
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Guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck will perform together as part of Clapton's second annual Crossroads Guitar Festival which will take place at Toyota Park in Chicago on July 28. In the mid-'60s Beck replaced Clapton in the British rock band, The Yardbirds. Clapton also intends to revisit Blind Faith, the band he formed with Stevie Winwood and others after Cream broke up, during the fest...
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ERIC CLAPTON and STEVE WINWOOD On Heels of Three Exclusive Shows at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Duo Announce Local Performance at ORACLE Arena in Oakland Tickets are on sale Monday, March 2nd at 10am (San Francisco, CA) - After their historic three-nights at Madison Square Garden, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood announced today a local performance at the ORACLE Arena in Oakland on June 29th at 8:00pm...
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Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York after undergoing gallstone surgery.Kristen Foster, a publicist for the guitarist, said Tuesday that Clapton was doing well and recuperating with his family in England.The hall says Jeff Beck will replace the 64-year-old guitarist for Friday night's show at Madison Square Garden.Clapton was to perform as pa...
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Planet Rock is reporting that Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck will play a huge show together at the O2 Arena next year. The blues legends will perform together at London’s premier venue on 13 February. They first performed their collaboration show in Tokyo in February and following the success of the gig they decided to bring it home. ‘Eric and I played together in Japan earlier this year and
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck are to join forces to play a one-off show after the pair announced they’ll take the stage at London’s O2 Arena on February 13th, 2010 at a joint concert that promises to be epic.While both Clapton and Beck were both members of the Yardbirds, the two never performed together in [...]
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MUSIC NEWS - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced two special concerts at Madison Square Garden in NYC for October 29 and 30. So far, confirmed to appear are; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, U2, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Crosby - Stills - Nash and Friends, and others they help the Hall of Fame celebrate its 25th anniversary and raise money. The
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Eric Clapton has earned his way into three spots -- including Number One - on the Rolling Stone Reader's Rock List for Supergroups. Clapton tops the list with Cream, snagging 7th place with Derek & the Dominoes -- which featured the late Duane Allman, and rounded out the Top Ten with Blind Faith which included Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood.Jack Bruce credits Baker with the origin...
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Jay Leno will welcome Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers to his new NBC television show on September 17 along with guitar legend Eric Clapton to perform Space Is The Place, from Hornsby’s forthcoming Verve release, Levitate. Clapton also performed on the studio version of the track. Leno’s show debuts on September 14, when Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West will perform Run This Town from Jay Z’s
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Rollingstone.com is reporting that two former Yardbirds are set to share the stage: Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck have announced they'll play two shows together at Saitama, Japan's Super Arena, on February 21st and 22nd. The duo have performed together at album sessions, benefits and festivals in years past, but these concerts mark the first time the pair have ever shared the bill for major are...
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