Eric Clapton performs live at Barclaycard's British Summer Time Hyde Park. byline:Vantagenews.com。 (Image from Oriental IC)
Eric Patrick Clapton is a British musician, singer and composer born on 30 March 1945. Although his style is varied, most of his works are based on the blues style. A Grammy Award winner, he was one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century, with three achievements in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ranking fourth in the Rolling Stones Magazine's 100 Best Guitarists in 2003 and 53rd among the Top 100 Rock Artists. (Image from Oriental IC)
Although Clapton's style is varied, most of his works are based on the blues style. He was a reformer of music, and his major contributions included blues rock (during "John Mayall and the Blues Breakers") and psychedelic rock (during "Cream Band"). He also successfully switched from Delta Blues ("Mr. John and Me") to pop music (masterpiece "Changing the World") and reggae (masterpiece "I Shoot sheriff"). (Image from Oriental IC)
Clapton's story of the electronic guitar is as famous as his personal experience, and together with the Beatles and Jimmy Hendricks, he played a very important role in advancing the popularity of the electronic guitar. (Image from Oriental IC)
Early in his acting career, he used both Gibson and Fender's guitars. In mid-1965, after he bought a Gibson Les Paul guitar from 1960, he became a Gibson player, which he used during "John Mayhor and the Blues Breakers." (Image from Oriental IC)
Clapton used a Gibson Paul guitar in the Beatles' album "When My Guitar Sobbed Softly." He lent his SG guitar to singer Jack Romag, and soon after the Romper guitar was sold to musician Todd Landgren for $500, and the Roundgren guitar was rebuilt and named "Sunshine", named after the song "Sunshine of Love". Roundgren loved the guitar so much that he used it in the mid-1970s until he retired it in 1977. In 2000 he re-repaired the guitar and sold it for $150,000 at an auction. (Image from Oriental IC)
Although electric guitar playing was Eric Clapton's greatest success, after his unplugged live show on MTV in March 1992, the acoustic guitar level of the former master of the art who used to serve the public with electric guitar technology was also unsurpassed. Eric Clapton's unplugged live album and Nirvana's unplugged live album are two of the best-selling albums in MTV's history. (Image from Oriental IC)
Among rolling stone magazine's 100 greatest guitarists of all time, Eric Clapton was named only Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, two geniuses who died young, and Bruce Elder B.B. King is then ranked fourth, the highest-ranked guitarist who still regularly hosts solo tours. (Image from Oriental IC)