Slowhand: Eric Clapton's Blues

The first 367 pages take us up to 1990 when Clapton finally got sober, and the final 50 pages race through 1990-2018. It just seems that Philip Norman either only has source material (heavily reliant on Pattie Boyd) up until 1990 (although, even then, he manages to miss out Clapton's furious dating spree of the late 80's that saw his name linked to a succession of models, actresses and rockers, including Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone and Sheryl Crow), or else opines that the reader's interest will only extend as far as tales of rock'n'roll excess and bad behaviour.Much of this bad behaviour has now been related in any case in the film 'Life in 12 Bars', authorised and publicised by Clapton himself, and so the stuff about him playing on his back while drunk and so on are old hat.I did learn a bit more about Clapton's childhood and early friendships from the book - but, otherwise, I learned very little that is not already well known. It could be that the artist's preference for privacy makes the documentation of the later years difficult, but, heck, there is quite a bit about his successful band of 2010 (including Derek Trucks), and the various Crossroads gigs, on the Web, so it wouldn't have been hard to fill in a few blanks.I can only conclude that a certain amount of the book's rush to a conclusion must be down to either lack of time or laziness.

Book ok except for a few mistakes . David English was never Chairman of RSO he was in charge of the record label until being dismissed in 1974. The insert for There’s One In Every Crowd was a self portrait which Eric wanted as the sleeve but was persuaded by the record company not to use it , so he choose the picture of his dog , Willow , as the outer sleeve. For Slowhand the inner sleeve was mostly put together by David Stewart using images supplied by Eric and Pattie

Interesting story of the great mans life. Some insight into his psyche and how he’s managed to stay at the top through all the low and highs. A must read

My wife who I got it for says it’s excellent book

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Hi, bought book as a present for the wife. As an Eric Clapton fan l know she will love it! The price was brilliant! Well done Amazon.

I started getting a feeling of deja vu when reading this book, then realised it was very similar to Clapton's 2007 autobiography, covering the same ground and even including many of the same anecdotes. I put it down and am reading Clapton's book again, which I think is far superior, especially in terms of giving insight into what makes him tick musically, which Norman's account, in my opinion, fails to provide.

Fantastic book...Things you never knew about one brilliant guitarists