Just another videoclip which is posted on Slowhand Digest today.

Eric Clapton Remembers 'Layla'
In this exclusive interview clip, Clapton tells Spinner the real story behind one of his best-loved songs, 'Layla.'

http://www.spinner.com/2007/10/08/eric-clapton-remembers-layla/

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EC at the NBC Today Show (Video):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21196319/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21206419/

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To celebrate the release of 'Complete Clapton' on October 8 -- a 2-disc career retrospective from the man universally known as Slowhand -- Uncut.co.uk and Polydor Records have joined forces to run an exclusive competition to win a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar!

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this exclusive prize is to simply upload a video to YouTube of yourself or your friends performing to a clip of an Eric Clapton classic track such as 'Sunshine Of Your Love', 'Layla' or 'Wonderful Tonight'.

Just choose any track from 'Complete Clapton' and get creative! We're looking for anything from an air-guitar mime, simple acoustic guitar rendition, karaoke sessions with all your friends or full-band reinterpretations of any great song, the more entertaining the better!

These videos should be uploaded to this specially-created YouTube Group with the winning entry being selected on October 22.

TO ENTER CLICK HERE: www.youtube.com/group/completeclaptoncomp


http://uncut.co.uk/news/eric_clapton/news/10412

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A member of our forum posted this message from a Live-Music-Bar in Verviers (Belgium).

It’s kind of easy to understand that running a club as the Spirit of 66 is not an easy task every day.

During these 12 years, we’ve often had some difficult periods.. with up and downs in our shows attendances.

And now, once again we are completely “down’”… very few people came to our shows these last weeks.

Yesterday evening we had only 18 visitors for the fantastic LARRY MILLER show…

this is really frustrating for such a good show !

The only solution for us to get out of this new hole is to increase our promotion to get some new visitors.

After a while, some of our regular visitors get tired and don’t come anymore…

we always have to look for new sources of visitors.

We need your help !

You just have to speak about The SPIRIT OF 66 to your friends

who have some interest for “live-music” and still don’t know about us.

Just ask them to visit our website : http://www.spiritof66.be/

and ; just like you, to join our Weekly Newsletter, by introducing their e-mail address here :
http://www.spiritof66.be/email.html

We know this will help a lot … Thanks by advance

Francis



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I want to remind you of BBC-Radio 2. Bill Nighy reads extracts from Eric Clapton's autobiographie(22.15 -22.30).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/

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Tracklist from the DVD.

http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fwxzthldje

Releasedate, Nov. 20
http://www.billboard.com

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The Sunday Times posted an extract from EC`s autobiographie.
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Info from Slowhand Digest.

Eric Clapton – The Autobiography Ep 1/6, Friday 5 October,9.15-9.30pm BBC RADIO 2

Tonight's opener – Motherless Child – charts Clapton's early life. Born in 1945, he grew up in Ripley, Surrey, and, until he was nine years old, believed his grandparents, Rose and Jack Clapp, with whom he lived, to be his parents.

Eric was the illegitimate son of a Canadian airman, and his mother, Patricia, had left him with her parents when Eric was only two. A distant figure in his life, Clapton's uneasy relationship with Patricia and his sense of abandonment were to affect his later relationships with women and contribute to an eventual downward spiral of despair and addiction.
As a teenager, Eric was awkward with girls, and music became a solace and a healer for him. His early hero was Chuck Berry, and he was greatly influenced by Elvis and jazz artists including the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman. The purchase of his first guitar, a Hoyer, cost his grandparents £2 and was a difficult instrument for a novice to master. But Eric knew he'd found his calling, giving him a personal freedom and a way out of Ripley.

Narrator/Bill Nighy, Producer/Victoria Williams


http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/radio/wk40/fri.shtml

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He also have been one of the drummers at the "Concert for George" and is often on drums at the EC`s New Year concerts in Woking

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The surviving members of legendary rock group Led Zeppelin are to reform for a star-studded tribute concert in London.

Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones will play at the show to remember the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

The one-off concert, the trio's first performance for 19 years, will take place at the O2 arena on 26 November.

Tickets will cost £125 and be allocated by ballot. Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman and Paolo Nutini will also perform.

Ertegun, who signed Led Zeppelin in 1968, died last year.

The place of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980, will be taken by his son Jason.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6990704.stm

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