Word: clapton
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...what do you do?" QUEEN ELIZABETH II, upon meeting British rock legends Brian May, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, at a Buckingham Palace party honoring the British music industry
...destiny obscures a more interesting struggle. When Foxx was 7 months old, his mother gave him up to her adoptive parents, who then adopted him and raised him as their son. That makes Foxx's biological mother his sister and his grandmother his mother. (Jack Nicholson and Eric Clapton grew up under similar arrangements.) "My grandmother was 60 years old when she adopted me," says Foxx. "She ran a nursery school and had a library in the house. She saw me reading early, saw I was smart and believed I was born to achieve truly special things...
...those trailblazers should not have their milestones taken away. Black performers were performing Presley's style of music long before it was Presley's style. Big Bill Broonzy, a blues guitarist who launched his career in the 1920s and who has been acknowledged by such rock greats as Eric Clapton as a major influence, once said of Presley, "He's singing the same thing I'm singing now. And he knows it. 'Cause really, the melody and the tune and the way we used to call it 'rocking the blues' years ago when I was a kid...that's what...
SOLD. "BLACKIE," Eric Clapton's favorite guitar; to an undisclosed buyer; for a record $959,500; in New York. The legendary rocker auctioned the Fender Stratocaster, his sole studio and stage guitar from 1970 to 1985, along with 56 others, at a charity auction to raise money for the Crossroads Center Antigua, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the West Indies...
...played with legends like Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, and Eric Clapton, and was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame...