Eric Clapton's new live film and album are headed for the home market this fall. The movie is arriving simultaneously on a variety of formats and configurations, including DVD/two-CD and ...

For whatever reason, iconic musicians always seem to develop nicknames. Perhaps it’s because their names are thrown around so much that people want an alternative to use. If the musician is really a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Slowhand returns to the Blues Albums chart this week in America.

Among music book scribes, Philip Norman stands near the top in terms of influence and skill. His 1981 Beatles tome Shout! set the stage for the modern rock bio (as well as dirty up a bit the clean ...

“We had chords and a structure, but I didn’t have a song,” Eric Clapton says of the genesis of “Spiral,” an original blues on his new album, I Still Do. One day, his producer Glyn Johns, who “was ...

'Slowhand,' Eric Clapton's most successful '70s album, is being repackaged and re-released this fall, with up to 14 previously unreleased tracks on multiple formats. 2012 is the 35th anniversary of a ...

Q: I’ve often wondered how Eric Clapton earned the nickname, “Slowhand.” Can you tell me? A: According to Whereseric.com, the Eric Clapton fan club, there are four slightly different versions of how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Eric Clapton returns to one of Billboard’s genre-specific rankings ...

Eric Clapton recently celebrated his 70th birthday with a series of performances marking the milestone. That included a seven-night stretch at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, an event the guitarist ...

Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed Slowhand ...

Distribution vet Marty Zeidman’s year-old company has announced a slate of six films to be released between now and the end of the year, beginning with Michael Phalen’s 9/11-themed “Into the Fire” on ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — In his 40-year-plus career, Eric Clapton has rolled up plenty of honors: He’s had numerous hits, 18 Grammys and is the first musician inducted three times into the Rock and Roll Hall ...