Clapton: The Biography of a Phenomenon

Ray Coleman followed the life of Eric Clapton and wrote the biography of a phenomenon. In CLAPTON, the best blues and rock guitarist of all time, according to many, speaks without restraint about his youth, about the first steps towards his career - in the turbulent sixties -, about the rock scene then and now, and about his three-year heroin addiction and the seven years that were lost in an alcohol haze. Coleman also shows how strong the character of the survivor Clapton is. When his four-year-old son died in 1991 after falling from a window of an apartment in New York, he found somewhere deep inside him the creativity to translate this drama into an artistic triumph. Tears in Heaven, the undisputed highlight of the Unplugged album, speaks for itself in the language that Clapton is a master of like no other. In addition to Clapton's, Coleman also allows many other voices to speak. Pattie, the ex-wife of Clapton's friend George Harrison, for example, who