Indeed, Clapton later revealed that he had wanted to join the group.

Other guests they admired ( and in most cases had worked with before ) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.

Of the trio, Clapton had the biggest reputation in England ; however, he was all but unknown in the United States, having left The Yardbirds before " For Your Love " hit the American Top Ten.

Clapton had also fallen under the spell of Bob Dylan's former backing group, now known as The Band, and their debut album, Music from Big Pink, which proved to be a welcome breath of fresh air in comparison to the incense and psychedelia that had informed Cream.

Clapton mentioned in his acceptance speech that their rehearsal the day before the ceremony had marked the first time they had played together in 25 years.

Although the three musicians chose not to speak publicly about the shows, Clapton would later state that he had become more " generous " in regard to his past, and that the physical health of Bruce and Baker was a major factor: Bruce had recently undergone a liver transplant for liver cancer, and had almost lost his life, while Baker had severe arthritis.

Harrison, who had invited Clapton to the sessions, soon reciprocated by collaborating with Clapton on the song " Badge " for Cream's last album Goodbye.

On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music For Montserrat, a benefit concert for the Caribbean island that had recently been devastated by an eruption from a volcano.

At the end of the year Lindsay-Hogg again collaborated with the Stones on their most ambitious project to date, the feature-length performance film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which also featured John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and rising UK band Jethro Tull, but unfortunately the film was not released until 1996 because the group at the time felt that their own performances had been below par.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

* Peter Green, who had replaced Clapton, played until August 1967, when he departed with Mick Fleetwood and then also enticed Bluesbreaker John McVie a few weeks later to form Fleetwood Mac,

Clapton brought guitar-led blues influences to the forefront of the group ; he had left The Yardbirds in order to concentrate on the blues.

Here Eric Clapton joins the band in March 2009 to play songs from 1970's classic Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, which had featured Duane Allman.

Derek and the Dominos ' sole hit " Layla " is associated with group leader Eric Clapton, who had great success and fame before and after the Dominos.

In November 1965 Clapton returned, and Green had to depart, Mayall having guaranteed Clapton his spot back in the Bluesbreakers whenever he tired of the Glands fiasco.

In the meantime, on 11 June the formation of the Cream -- Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker -- had been revealed in the music press, much to the embarrassment of Clapton, who had not said anything about this to Mayall.

They recorded an ambitious double-album with considerable input from Duane Allman, whom Clapton met and befriended just after the sessions began.

Clapton recalled later that Dylan appeared to be seeking an opportunity to work with new people he had met, although Clapton felt that Dylan was uncomfortable performing personal songs with such a large group present, and left the session after advising Dylan to use a smaller band, a sentiment later reiterated by Rob Stoner to producer Don DeVito.

Clapton immediately agreed, on the condition that Baker hire Bruce as the group's bassist ; according to Clapton, Baker was so surprised at the suggestion that he almost crashed the car.

The band was named " Cream ", as Clapton, Bruce, and Baker were already considered the " cream of the crop " amongst blues and jazz musicians in the exploding British music scene.

While Clapton was shy about singing, he occasionally harmonised with Bruce and, in time, took lead vocals on some Cream tunes including " Four Until Late ", " Strange Brew ", " World of Pain ", " Outside Woman Blues ", " Anyone for Tennis ", " Crossroads ", and " Badge ".

" Bruce and Baker's combustible relationship proved even worse as a result of the strain put upon the band by non-stop touring, forcing Clapton to play the perpetual role of peacekeeper.

Clapton spoke of a concert during which he stopped playing and neither Baker nor Bruce noticed.

Blind Faith was formed immediately after the demise of Cream, following an attempt by Clapton to recruit Steve Winwood into the band in the hope that he would help act as a buffer between Bruce and Baker.

A formal reunion did not take place immediately, as Clapton, Bruce and Baker continued to pursue solo projects, although the latter two worked together again in the mid-1990s as two-thirds of a power trio BBM with Irish blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore.

* Eric Clapton ( April – August 1965, November 1965 – July 1966 ) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,

Shortly after Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton was released Eric Clapton went to see Buddy Guy in concert, and being impressed by his trio, the idea for Cream was formed and he left to form this new group with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.

It will be the last time Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker play together until their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

L-R: Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton

On 3 May 2005, Baker was reunited with Eric Clapton and Bruce for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden.

In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has included Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don " Sugarcane " Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.

( After a May Bluesbreakers gig at which Baker had sat in, he and Clapton had first discussed forming their own band, and surreptitious rehearsal jams with Bruce soon commenced.

Cream, is often seen as the first supergroup, combining the talents of Clapton, Bruce and Baker, they have also been seen as the first groups to exploit the power trio.

Bruce Springsteen has been presented the award three times, and two-time winners include Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Don Henley, and Robert Palmer.

The soundtrack featured many artists from the 1980s, including Tears for Fears ( whose song " Everybody Wants to Rule the World " was heard over the opening credits of the film ), Eric Clapton, The Pretenders, and Bruce Springsteen.

# " Sunshine of Your Love " ( Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton ) – 3: 18

The article stated that when asked about Cream, Clapton said: " No. Not for me.

The original Gibson Les Paul-guitar design regained popularity when Eric Clapton began playing the instrument a few years later, although he also played an SG and an ES-335.

British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s and which reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

It was recorded live at the Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, December 1979 when Clapton was touring with his last record, Backless.

Soon after, when Clapton departed from the Bluesbreakers, he became a full-time member of Mayall's band.

In an interview with Dan Forte from Guitar World magazine, which was reprinted in Guitar Legends in 1993, Eric Clapton acknowledged Green's skills as a guitar player when recalling a chance meeting with him in the mid 1980s:

Clapton originally wrote " Layla " as a ballad, with lyrics describing his unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, but the song became a " rocker " when Allman reportedly helped compose the song's signature riff.

His current double-neck model is a Gibson 12-string guitar with a Yamaha TRB-4P bass while he prefers Eric Clapton signature model Fender Stratocasters when playing guitar on later pieces.

Music critic Piero Scaruffi argues that the blues rock genre was defined when John Mayall released the album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton in 1966, which included guitarist Eric Clapton.

Clapton hold the record for unbroken membership of the Isthmian League, staying from 1905 until 2006 – 07 when due to non-league re-organisation they were moved to the Essex Senior League.

Initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, it reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

I was pleasantly surprised when the musician, who turned out to be Eric Clapton, arrived at the studio with a 45 r. p. m.

According to Huddle, " it remained just an idea until August 1976 " when Eric Clapton made a drunken declaration of support for former Conservative minister Enoch Powell ( known for his anti-immigration Rivers of Blood speech ) at a concert in Birmingham.

This process is exemplified by the huge directional change in rock music that came about when young British and American musicians ( like Eric Clapton ) heard the recordings of an obscure Mississippi blues musician called Robert Johnson.

In addition, he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City.

One of the last known occasions when Blackie was seen by the public was for a 1990 television commercial for the Japanese automobile firm Honda when, at the specific request of the company, Clapton used Blackie to record a new guitar solo on Bad Love in New York and was filmed for the commercial doing so.

Reverend Edward Connerford Hawkins was one of the first headmasters, when the school was still at Clapton in north-east London.

Clapton Garage has its origins back as far as 1882 when it was known as Hackney Tram Depot and housed horse trams.

This service itself became the 276 in late 1984, serving variously Beckton and the Woolwich Ferry ( including midibus operation ) until settling on Newham Hospital as the terminus .< ref >< cite > Route 276 accessed 4 April 2008 </ cite ></ ref > The 208 service dating from 1933 connected Cadogan Terrace with Bow and Clapton Pond < ref >< cite > London Transport Route 208 accessed 13 December 2007 </ cite ></ ref > until 1970 when it was replaced by the present S2 .< ref >< cite > London Transport Routes S2 and S3 accessed 13 December 2007 </ cite ></ ref > The new N11 night bus was introduced in 1984 from Turnham Green and Trafalgar Square with its eastern terminus gradually reaching Hackney Wick.

Large parts of Lower Clapton look much as they did when the area was first developed in the second half of the 19th century.