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Eric Patrick Clapton was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist of the 1960’s, who was influenced by the legendary blues guitarist, Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson had a brief career, but inspired many rock ‘n’ roll musicians, such as Clapton. When reviewing Clapton’s songs, there are many musical attributes that come from Johnson. In fact, Clapton made an album called ‘Me and Mr. Johnson’ as tribute to Johnson, because of the impact he had on Clapton’s musical career. Clapton has been through many bands, but he always ended up leaving them because their style was not similar to his own. His musical style was rock ‘n’ roll, but the blues and Johnson’s style were always incorporated within Clapton’s songs.
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His grandmother was a skilled pianist, and his mother and uncle enjoyed listening to big band music. Also, his absent father was a pianist who played in several dance bands while stationed in Surrey. Therefore, he eventually found he was also an artist. At the age of thirteen, he enrolled in the art branch of Holyfield Road School. Then at the age of sixteen, he was accepted into the Kingston College of Art with a one year probation. One day, Clapton came across Robert Johnson’s music, which influenced him to buy his first electric guitar. He later on discovered booze and was expelled from college for one year. When Clapton finished college in 1963, he started to hang around the West End of London and tried to break into the music industry as a guitarist. He joined his first band, The Roosters, that same year. Unfortunately they broke up after just a few months. After The Roosters, he joined Casey Jones and The Engineers, which unsurprisingly, he also left. He had no other choice then to work as a laborer on construction sites in order to make ends meet. Later, he joined the Yardbirds and recorded his first songs with them, but because of their pop-oriented style, he was not pleased, and left them also. There were many other bands he joined after the Yardbirds, but he was never content with them. Therefore he decided to begin a solo

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