What Is The Impact Of Eric Clapton's Influence On Rock And Roll Music

The British are coming! The British Invasion brought The Beatle’s, The Rolling Stone’s, and also Eric Clapton’s Rock and blues to American listeners. Clapton’s multiple bands increased his popularity and the music played created a new sound that was profitable. Their struggles and addictions changed blues and rock and inspired the new musicians that played too. Eric Clapton was imprinted in music history with his awards, blues music, and rock music which have been inspired from his tragedies and struggles in his solo career, bands, and life.
Clapton was inspired to follow music from the events in his life. Clapton started playing the guitar after his uncle's passing, who he thought was his sibling, which influenced his album Reptile that came
Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gear, and Wheels of Fire were the only studio albums made with Cream. “Sunshine of Your Love” and “White Room” was Clapton’s most profound pieces and created them while he was with Cream (Gulla, 2014). Clapton left Cream and went to Blind Faith that produced the hit “After Midnight” and left them just as quickly and joined Derek and the Dominoes (Lowe, 2004). Cream only lasted until November of 1968 at London’s Royal Hall (Gulla, 2014).
After many bands, the problems that gave Clapton his singular style came back and caused more despair than before. A persistent taste of drugs and alcohol that started in his bands took over Clapton and drove him away from music. Then the death of Jimi Hendrix pushed him even further into his usages of drugs (Palmer, 1992). This death and Allman’s death emotionally scarred him for the rest of his life (Lowe, 2004). Finally, the death of his son and his love he could not marry broke him and gave Clapton’s music a more tranquil, mournful sound (Morrison,
Clapton created the album, 461 Ocean Boulevard, that was his first number one album and contained his first single of his version of “I Shot the Sheriff” by Bob Marley. He created two hit albums, Unplugged which was recorded during an MTV performance, and From the Cradle (Morrison, 2006). “Tears in Heaven,” “Change the World,” and “Layla” were three of Clapton’s hit songs since 1990 and all were from Unplugged (Lowe, 2004). Clapton was inducted three times in the Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of fame (Gulla, 2014). “Change the World” by Kenneth Edmond written for Phenomenon, got Eric a Grammy Award in 1997. Clapton won another Grammy for the Best Traditional Blues Album with his album Riding with the King (Lowe, 2004). Clapton is now a contributor in Antigua, a Caribbean island, of a recovery center for addictions named The Crossroads Centre and has raised five million dollars by auctioning his collection of one hundred guitars (Morrison,