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'''. Consulted on August 12, 2007. Boyd criticized Clapton because he had not revealed the child's existence.[ The Daily Mail, '''I'd pray Eric would pass out and not touch me': Part 2 of Pattie Boyd's sensational autobiography. Consulted on August 12, 2007.]
Hurricane Hugo hit Montserrat in 1989 and this resulted in the closure of Sir George Martin and John Burgess's recording studio AIR Montserrat, where Kelly was Managing Director. Kelly and Ruth moved back to England, and the myth of Eric's secret daughter began as a result of newspaper articles published at the time.[ Daily Telegraph, ''It's amazing we're still alive. Consulted on August 12, 2007. ] Boyd herself was never able to conceive children, despite attempts at in vitro fertilization.
1990s and 2000s The early 1990s saw tragedy enter Clapton's life again
. On 27 August 1990, fellow guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was touring with Clapton, and two members of their road crew were killed in a helicopter crash between concerts. Then, on 20 March 1991, Conor, who was four years of age, died when he fell from the 53rd-storey window of his mother's friend's New York City apartment, landing on the roof of an adjacent four-storey building. Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which was co-written by Will Jennings. He received a total of six Grammy Awards that year for the single "Tears in Heaven" and his Unplugged album.
In October 1992, Clapton was among the dozens of artists performing at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert. Recorded at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the live two-disk CD/DVD captured a show full of celebrities performing classic Dylan songs, before ending with a few performances from Bob Dylan himself. Despite the presence of 10 other guitarists on stage, including George Harrison, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn, Steve Cropper, Tom Petty, and Dylan, Clapton played the lead on a nearly 7-minute version of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", one of Clapton's early hit singles, as part of the finale.
While Unplugged featured Clapton playing acoustic guitar, his 1994 album From the Cradle contained new versions of old blues standards highlighted by his electric guitar playing. Clapton's 1996 recording of the Wayne Kirkpatrick/Gordon Kennedy/Tommy Sims tune "Change the World" (featured in the soundtrack of the movie Phenomenon) won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1997, the same year he recorded Retail Therapy (an album of electronic music with Simon Climie under the pseudonym TDF). The following year, Clapton released the album Pilgrim, the first record featuring brand new material for almost a decade.
In 1996 Clapton had a relationship with singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow. They re
In 1999 Clapton, then 54, met 23-year-old store clerk Melia McEnery (from Columbus, Ohio) in Los Angeles while working on an album with B. B. King. They married on January 1, 2002 at St Mary Magdalen church in Clapton's birthplace, Ripley, and as of 2005 have three daughters, Julie Rose (June 13, 2001), Ella May (January 14, 2003), and Sophie Belle (February 1, 2005). He wrote the song "Three Little Girls", featured on his 2006 album The Road to Escondido, about the contentment he has found in his family life at home with them.
Following the release of the 2001 record Reptile, Eric performed "Layla" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Party at the Palace in 2002. On November 29 of that year the Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall, a tribute to George Harrison who had died a year earlier of cancer. Clapton was a performer, and also the musical director. The concert featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Ravi Shankar, and others. In 2004, Clapton released two albums packed full of covers by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. Johnson and Sessions for Robert J. The same year Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Clapton #53 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
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On 22 January 2005, Clapton performed in the Tsunami Relief Concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In May 2005, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker reunited as Cream for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Concert recordings were released on CD and DVD. Later, Cream performed in New York at Madison Square Garden. Back Home, Clapton's first album of new original material in nearly five years, was released on Reprise Records on 30 August. In 2006 he invited Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II to join his band for his 2006-2007 world tour. Trucks is the third member of The Allman Brothers Band to support Clapton, the second being pianist/keyboardist Chuck Leavell who appeared on the MTV Unplugged album and the 24 Nights performances at the Royal Albert Hall theatre of London (RAH) in 1990 and 1991, as well as Clapton's 1992 U.S. tour.
On 20 May, 2006, Clapton performed with Queen drummer Roger Taylor and former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters at the Highclere Castle, in support of the Countryside Alliance. On 13 August 2006, Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in Columbus, Ohio, playing guitar on three songs in Jimmie Vaughan's opening act. A collaboration with guitarist J. J. Cale, titled The Road to Escondido, was released on 7 November 2006, featuring Derek Trucks and Billy Preston. The 14-track CD was produced and recorded by the duo in August 2005 in California. The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite The Derek Trucks Band to open for Clapton's set on his 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, with Trucks remaining on set afterward, performing with Clapton's band throughout his performances, and embarking on a world tour with him.
The rights to Clapton's official memoirs, written by Christopher Simon Sykes and published in 2007, were sold at the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair for USD $4 million.
According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Clapton is currently working on an album with Robbie Robertson. Robertson performed with Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, where they played their version of the Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love". On 28 January 2008 Eric Clapton was announced as the headliner for the Saturday night of Hard Rock Calling 2008 in London's Hyde Park (previously Hyde Park Calling) with support from Sheryl Crow & John Mayer. On February 26, 2008, it was reported that North Korean officials had invited Clapton to play a concert in the communist state. According to reports, Clapton's management received the invitation and passed it on to the singer, who has agreed in principle and suggested it take place sometime in 2009. Clapton's management, however, have so far refused to confirm if this is the case. If the invitation does exist, and Clapton accepts, he will be the first western rock star to play there.
Clapton's 2008 Summer Tour began on the 3rd of May at the Ford Amphitheatre,Tampa Bay, Florida, and then moved to Canada, Ireland, England, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany and Monaco.
Eric Clapton (4th from left) and his band live in 2007
In 2007, Clapton learned more about his father, a Canadian soldier who left the UK after the war. Although Clapton's grandparents eventually told him the truth about his parentage, he only knew that his father's name was Edward Fryer. This was a source of disquiet for Clapton, as witnessed by his 1998 song "My Father's Eyes". A Montreal journalist named Michael Woloschuk researched Canadian Armed Forces service records and tracked down members of Fryer's family, finally piecing together the story. He learned that Clapton's father was Edward Walter Fryer, born 21 March 1920, in Montreal and died 15 May, 1985 in Newmarket, Ontario. Fryer was a musician (piano and saxophone) and a lifelong drifter, who was married several times, had several children and apparently never knew that he was the father of Eric Clapton. Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at Macdonald Cartier Airport, in Ottawa, Canada.
In February 2008, Clapton performed with his long-time friend Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden and guested on his recorded single "Dirty City" on Winwood's album Nine Lives. The two former Blind Faith bandmates met again for a series of 14 concerts throughout the United States in June 2009.
In September 2008, Clapton performed at a private charity fundraiser for The Countryside Alliance at Floridita in Soho, London, that included such guests as the London Mayor Boris Johnson.
March, 2009 found Clapton performing with The Allman Brothers Band (amongst other notable guests), celebrating their 40th year, in tribute to the late Duane Allman on their annual run at the Beacon Theater, with Butch Trucks commenting that "this performance wasn't the typical Allman Brothers experience, given the number and differences of the guests who were invited to perform. "Eric Clapton taught us!", Trucks said. Songs like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", were punctuated with others, such as "The Weight", with Levon Helm; Johnny Winter sitting in on Hendrix's "Red House" and of course, "Layla".
Clapton was scheduled to be one of the performers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary concert in Madison Square Garden on October 30, 2009, but cancelled due to gallstone surgery. Van Morrison (who also cancelled) said in an interview that he and Clapton were to do a "couple of songs" but that they would do something else together at "some other stage of the game". Clapton is also set to perform a 2-day show with Jeff Beck at London's O2 Arena in February 13th-14th, 2010.
Influences Clapton has performed songs by myriad artists, which include Bob Marley, J.J. Cale, Bo Diddley and Bob Dylan. He cites Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin both in musical influence and on his style on the guitar. However, he holds no other artist higher in esteem as that of Robert Johnson. In his book, Discovering Robert Johnson (which he co-authored with several other writers), Clapton said of Johnson, that he was "...the most important blues musician who ever lived. He was true, absolutely, to his own vision, and as deep as I have gotten into the music over the last 30 years, I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice, really. ... it seemed to echo something I had always felt."In 1974, Clapton persuaded Freddie King to sign with RSO, Clapton's record label at the time. He has recorded more than six of J. J. Cale's originals and has put out an album with him. Other artists with whom Clapton has made collaborations include Frank Zappa, B.B. King, George Harrison, Santana, Ringo Starr, Roger Waters, John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band. Clapton also collaborated with singer/songwriter John Mayer on his 2006 album release, Continuum. Mayer cites Clapton in his liner notes Eric Clapton knows I steal from him and is still cool with it. Clapton and Mayer wrote several songs together which have yet to be released. Clapton's influence inspired Mayer to write "I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)" which loosely holds characteristics of Clapton's musical and fashion style. Citation needed
Some guitarists that Clapton has influenced are: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks,[title=Derek Trucks on playing with Allman, Clapton, Dylan] Eddie Van Halen, John Mayer, and Alex Lifeson.
Guitars Clapton's choice of electric guitars has been as notable as the man himself, and alongside Hank Marvin, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Clapton exerted a crucial and widespread influence in popularising particular models of the electric guitar. With the Yardbirds, Clapton played a Fender Telecaster, a Fender Jazzmaster, a double-cutaway Gretsch 6120 and a 1964 Cherry-Red Gibson ES-335. He became exclusively a Gibson player for a period beginning in mid-1965, when he purchased a used Gibson Les Paul Sunburst Standard guitar from a local guitar store in London. Clapton commented on the slim profile of the neck, which would indicate it as a 1960 model.
Early during his stint in Cream, Clapton's first Les Paul Standard was stolen. He continued to play Les Pauls exclusively with Cream (one bought from Andy Summers was almost identical to the stolen guitar) until 1967 when he acquired his most famous guitar in this period, a 1964 Gibson SG.[Les Paul Guitars « Guitar Player Gear Guide] In early 1967, just before their first US appearance, Clapton's SG, Bruce's Fender VI and Baker's drum head were repainted in psychedelic designs created by the visual art collective known as The Fool. In 1968 Clapton bought a Gibson Firebird and started using the 1964 Cherry-Red Gibson ES-335 again.[Strat Collector News Desk: Eric Clapton Guitar Auction, June 24, 2004: More Information and Images] Gibson produced a limited run of 250 "Crossroads 335" replicas. The 335 was only the second electric guitar Clapton bought.
In July 1968, Clapton gave George Harrison a red refinished Les Paul. In the following September, Clapton played the guitar on the Beatles' studio recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". His SG found its way into the hands of George Harrison's friend Jackie Lomax, who subsequently sold it to musician Todd Rundgren for US$500 in 1972. Rundgren restored the guitar and nicknamed it "Sunny", after "Sunshine of Your Love". He retained it until 2000, when he sold it at an auction for US$150,000.
In late 1969, Clapton made the switch to the Fender Stratocaster. "I had a lot of influences when I took up the Strat. First there was Buddy Holly, and Buddy Guy. Hank Marvin was the first well known person over here in England who was using one, but that wasn't really my kind of music. Steve Winwood had so much credibility, and when he started playing one, I thought, oh, if he can do it, I can do it." First was "Brownie" used during the recording of Eric Clapton which in 1974 became the backup to the most famous of all Clapton's guitars, "Blackie". In November 1970 Eric bought six Fender Stratocasters from the Sho-bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee while on tour with the Dominos. He gave one each to George Harrison, Steve Winwood and Pete Townshend.
Clapton assembled the best components of the remaining three to create "Blackie", which was his favourite stage guitar until its retirement in 1985. It was first played live January 13, 1973 at the Rainbow Concert. Clapton called the 1956/57 Strat a "mongrel". On 24 June, 2004, Clapton sold "Blackie" at Christie's Auction House, New York for $959,500 to raise funds for his Crossroads Centre for drug and alcohol addictions. "Brownie" is now on display at the Experience Music Project. The Fender Custom Shop has since produced a limited run of 275 'Blackie' replicas, correct in every detail right down to the 'Duck Brothers' flight case, and artificially aged using Fender's 'Relic' process to simulate years of hard wear. One was presented to Eric upon the model's release.
Another moment involving Clapton's guitars resulted in Hard Rock Cafι's unique and gigantic collection of memorabilia. In 1971, Clapton, a regular at the original Hard Rock Cafι in Hyde Park, gave a signed guitar to the cafι to designate his favourite bar stool. Pete Townshend, in turn, donated one of his own guitars, with a note attached: "Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete." From there, the collection of memorabilia grew, resulting in Hard Rock Cafι's atmosphere. In 1988 Fender honoured Clapton with the introduction of his signature Eric Clapton Stratocaster.[Eric Clapton ClaptonWeb.com E.C. Mainline Florida] These were the first two artist models in the Stratocaster range and since then the artist series has grown to include models inspired both by Clapton's contemporaries such as Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, and by those who have influenced him such as Buddy Guy. Clapton uses Ernie Ball Slinky and Super Slinky strings. Clapton has also been honoured with signature-model 000-28EC and 000-42EC acoustic guitars made by the famous American firm of [[C.F. Martin & Co.]].
In 1999, Clapton auctioned off some of his guitar collection to raise more than $5 million for continuing support of the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, which he founded in 1997. The Crossroads Centre is a treatment base for addictive disorders such as drugs and alcohol.In 2004, Clapton organised and participated in the Crossroads Guitar Festival to benefit the Centre. A second guitar auction, including the "Cream" of Clapton's collection as well as guitars donated by famous friends was also held on 24 June 2004. His Lowden acoustic guitar sold for $41,825. The total revenue garnered by this auction at Christie's was US $7,438,624.
Other media appearances Clapton frequently appears as a guest on the albums of other musicians. For example, he is credited on Dire Straits Brothers in Arms album, as he lent Mark Knopfler one of his guitars for the album. He also played lead guitar and synthesizer on The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Roger Waters' debut solo album. Other media appearances include the Toots & the Maytals album True Love where he played guitar on the track "Pressure Drop". He can also be heard at the beginning of Frank Zappa's album, "We're Only In It For The Money", repeating the phrase, "Are you hung up?" over and over again. In 1985, Clapton appeared on the charity concert Live Aid in Philadelphia with Phil Collins, Tim Renwick, Chris Stainton, Jamie Oldaker, Marcy Levy, Shaun Murphy and Donald 'Duck' Dunn. In 1988 he played with Dire Straits and Elton John at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute. Two years later, Dire Straits, Clapton and Elton John made a guest appearance in a charity show held at Knebworth. In 1991, Clapton featured on Richie Sambora's album, Stranger In This Town, in a song dedicated to him, 'Mr Bluesman'. In 1992, Clapton contributed guitar and vocals to "Runaway Train", a duet with Elton John on the latter's "The One" album.
On 12 September 1996, Clapton played a party for Armani at New York City's Lexington Armory with Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Steve Gadd. Sheryl Crow appeared on one number, performing "Tearing Us Apart", a track from August, which was first performed by Tina Turner during the Prince's Trust All-Star Rock show in 1986. It was Clapton's sole US appearance that year, following the open-air concert held at Hyde Park with Dave Bronze, Andy Fairweather-Low, The Kick Horns, Jerry Portnoy, Chris Stainton and backing vocalists Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles. The concert was taped and the footage of the Hyde Park concert was released both on VHS video cassette and later, on DVD.
Clapton was featured in the movie version of Tommy, the first full length rock opera written by The Who. The movie version gave Clapton a cameo appearance as the Preacher, performing Sonny Boy Williamson's song, "Eyesight to the Blind". He also appeared in Blues Brothers 2000 as one of the Louisiana Gator Boys. In addition to being in the band, he had a small speaking role. Clapton has also appeared in an advertisement for the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen. In March 2007, Clapton appeared in an advertisement for RealNetwork's Rhapsody (online music service).
Eric Clapton was again compared to God's image in the episode Holy Crap! of season two of ''That '70s Show when the actors playing Eric Forman and Steven Hyde are made by their minister, Pastor Dave, to draw God.
Views and advocacy Clapton is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance, has played in concerts to raise funds for the organisation and publicly opposed the Labour Party (UK)s ban on fox hunting. A spokesperson for Clapton said: "Eric supports the Countryside Alliance. He doesn't hunt himself, but does enjoy rural pursuits such as fishing and shooting. He supports the Alliance's pursuit to scrap the ban on the basis that he doesn't agree with the state's interference with people's private pursuits."
Controversy over remarks on immigrationOn 5 August 1976 Clapton provoked an uproar and lingering controversy when he spoke out against increasing immigration during a concert in Birmingham. Visibly intoxicated, Clapton voiced his support of controversial political candidate Enoch Powell and announced on stage that Britain was in danger of becoming a "black colony". Clapton was quoted telling the audience: "I think Enoch's right ... we should send them all back. Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!" (the latter phrase was at the time a British National Front slogan). This incident, along with some explicitly pro-fascism remarks made around the same time by David Bowie, were the
In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds Magazine, Clapton remarked: "I thought it was quite funny actually. I don't know much about politics. I don't even know if it would be good or bad for him to get in. I don't even know who the Prime Minister is now. I just don't know what came over me that night. It must have been something that happened in the day but it came out in this garbled thing...I thought the whole thing was like Monty Python. There's this rock group playing onstage and the singer starts talking about politics. It's so stupid. Those people who paid their money sittin' listening to this madman dribbling on and the band meanwhile getting fidgety thinking 'oh dear'."[title=Eric Clapton: Farther On Up The Road]
In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Powell as "outrageously brave", and stated that his "feeling about this has not changed", because the UK is still "... inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos." In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense". In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton called himself "deliberately oblivious to it all" and wrote, "I had never really understood or been directly affected by racial conflict... when I listened to music, I was disinterested in where the players came from or what colour their skin was. Interesting, then, that 10 years later, I would be labelled a racist... Since then, I have learnt to keep my opinions to myself. Of course, it might also have had something to do with the fact that Pattie had just been leered at by a member of the Saudi royal family." In a December 2007 interview with Melvin Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton reiterated his support for Enoch Powell and again denied that Powell's views were racist.
Awards and honours
Clapton's music in film and TV - Mean Streets (1973) "I Looked Away"
- The Hit (1984) Score
- Back to the Future (1985) Heaven Is One Step Away
- Edge of Darkness (1985) - Soundtrack
- The Color of Money (1986 film) "It's In The Way That You Use It"
- SpaceCamp (1986 film) "Forever Man" plays when Tate Donovan's character arrives at the Space Camp.
- The German car manufacturer Opel and Vauxhall in the UK used the guitar riff of Clapton's Layla in its advertising campaign throughout in 1987-95.
- Lethal Weapon (1987) - Soundtrack with Michael Kamen
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1988) "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
- Goodfellas (1990) "Layla" and "Sunshine of Your Love" title=Soundtracks for Goodfellas
- Rush (1991)_ Clapton wrote the score
- ''Wayne's World (1992) "Loving your Loving"
- ''Peter's Friends (1992) "Give Me Strength"
- Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) Clapton contributed to the score and co-wrote and co-performed the song "It's Probably Me" with Sting and "Runaway Train" with Elton John.
- True Lies (1994) "Sunshine of Your Love"
- Twister (1996 film) (1996) "Motherless Child"
- Phenomenon (1996 film) "Change the World"
- The Van (1996) (Soundtrack)
- Patch Adams (film) (1998)- "Let It Rain"
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) "Pilgrim"
- City Of Angels (1998) "Further On Up The Road"
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) (1998) Band Candy, Forever "Tales of Brave Ulysses"
- Runaway Bride (1999) Blue Eyes Blue
- The Story of Us (1999) "(I) Get Lost" (featured multiple times)
- Friends (2000) The One with the Proposal, Part 2, "Wonderful Tonight"
- Dancing At The Blue Iguana (2000) "River of Tears"
- ''A Knight's Tale (2001) "Further On Up The Road"
- Futurama episode 30% Iron Chef "Sunshine of Your Love"
- Blow (2001) "Strange Brew"
- Friends (2002) The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two, "River of Tears"
- The Sopranos in season four episode of the TV crime drama "Whitecaps" (2002)- Tony Soprano is seen listening to "Layla" in his Suburban.
- School Of Rock (2003) "Sunshine Of Your Love"
- Starsky & Hutch (2004) "Cocaine"
- Anger Management (film) (2004) "Strange Brew"
- Bad News Bears (2005) "Cocaine"
- Lords of Dogtown (2005) "Strange Brew"
- Lord of War (2005)- "Cocaine"
- The Simpsons "Sunshine of your love"
- Fahrenheit 9/11 "Cocaine"
- United States of Tara "Cocaine"
Discography Band 2006-2007
200607 Tour Band European Tour
- Eric Clapton guitar, vocals
- Doyle Bramhall II guitar, backing vocals
- Derek Trucks slide guitar, guitar
- Chris Stainton keyboards
- Tim Carmon keyboards
- Willie Weeks bass guitar
- Steve Jordan drums
- The Kick Horns (Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, and Tim Sanders) brass
- Michelle John backing vocals
- Sharon White backing vocals
North America Eastern Region, Japan, Australia and New Zealand Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
- Eric Clapton guitar, vocals
- Doyle Bramhall II guitar, backing vocals
- Derek Trucks slide guitar, guitar
- Chris Stainton keyboards
- Tim Carmon keyboards
- Willie Weeks Bass guitar
- Steve Jordan drums
- Jerry Douglas slide guitar on Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
- Michelle John backing vocals
- Sharon White backing vocals
Support act for European and North America: The Robert Cray Band
2008 Summer Tour Band Eastern U.S. / Canada Tour
- Eric Clapton (guitar / vocals)
- Doyle Bramhall II (guitar / backing vocals)
- Chris Stainton (keyboards)
- Pino Palladino (bass)
- Robert Randolph (slide guitar)
- Ian Thomas (drums)
- Sharon White (backing vocals)
- Michelle John (backing vocals)
Europe Tour
- Eric Clapton (guitar / vocals)
- Doyle Bramhall II (guitar / backing vocals)
- Chris Stainton (keyboards)
- Willie Weeks (bass)
- Abe Laboriel, Jr. (drums)
- Sharon White (backing vocals)
- Michelle John (backing vocals)
2009 Tour Band Japan / Australia / New Zealand Tour
- Eric Clapton (guitar / vocals)
- Doyle Bramhall II (guitar / backing vocals)
- Chris Stainton (keyboards)
- Willie Weeks (bass)
- Abe Laboriel, Jr. (drums)
- Sharon White (backing vocals)
- Michelle John (backing vocals)
UK / Ireland Tour
- Eric Clapton (guitar / vocals)
- Andy Fairweather-Low (guitar / backing vocals)
- Doyle Bramhall II (guitar / backing vocals on the RAH shows of May 26th-31st)
- Chris Stainton (keyboards)
- Willie Weeks (bass)
- Tim Carmon (keyboards)
- Steve Gadd (drums)
- Sharon White (backing vocals)
- Michelle John (backing vocals)
US Tour with Steve Winwood (10 June-30 June)
- Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals)
- Steve Winwood (vocals, Hammond B3, piano, guitar)
- Chris Stainton (keyboards)
- Willie Weeks (bass)
- Abe Laboriel, Jr. (drums)
- Michelle John (backing vocals)
- Sharon White (backing vocals)
Previous band members divcols 2
- Albert Lee guitar, vocals, backing vocals
- Tim Renwick guitar
- Andy Fairweather-Low guitar, backing vocals
- Phil Palmer guitar
- George Terry guitar, backing vocals
- Mark Knopfler guitar
- Alan Darby guitar
- Greg Phillinganes keyboards, hammond organ, backing vocals
- Billy Preston Hammond B3 Organ
- David Sancious keyboards, guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
- Joe Sample piano, Wurlitzer
- Dick Sims keyboards
- Alan Clark piano, keyboards
- Gary Brooker keyboards, backing vocals
- Chuck Leavell piano, keyboards, hammond organ
- Chris Stainton piano, keyboards
- Donald "Duck" Dunn bass guitar
- Carl Radle bass guitar, guitar
- Nathan East bass guitar, vocals, backing vocals
- Pino Palladino bass guitar
- Dave Bronze bass guitar
- Paulinho Da Costa percussion
- Jim Gordon drums, piano
- Steve Ferrone drums
- Steve Gadd drums
- Roger Hawkins drums
- Jim Keltner drums
- Richie Hayward drums
- Andy Newmark drums
- Jamie Oldaker drums
- Henry Spinetti drums
- Phil Collins drums, vocals
- Ricky Lawson drums
- Ray Cooper percussion
- Yvonne Elliman vocals, backing vocals, guitar
- Katie Kissoon backing vocals
- Marcy Levy vocals, backing vocals, harmonica
- Tessa Niles backing vocals
- Maggie Ryder backing vocals
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