Eric Clapton

by Michael Schumacher

paperback. Pub November 1998 432 in sphere 'I wonder. Why me Why have I survived' Eric Clapton. of Rolling Stone. 1991 The million-selling. Grammy award-winning master of the blues guitar Eric Clapton still generates the kind of adulation that led fans to graffiti London underground stations in 1965 with the statement. 'Clapton is God'. And yet Clapton has more thanan astonishing professional story to he has survived a personal journey blighted by tragedy and hearteak. In 1990 he lost four of his closest friends in a helicopter crash. followed a year later by the devastating death of his four-year-old son Conor. In this definitive study of the man and his music. Michael Schumacher reveals with compassion and insight both the depths of Clapton's sorrow and the roots of his remarkable musical power. From his days with the Yard...

432 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

A lifelong resident of the Great Lakes region, Michael Schumacher is the author of twelve books, including biographies of Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, and Eric Clapton, and the award-winning book Wreck of the Carl D. He has also written twenty-five documentaries on Great Lakes shipwrecks and lighthouses.