English People of Canadian Descent

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Eric Clapton, Ricky Gervais, Ronald Niel Stuart, Mark Clattenburg, Homer Sykes, Michael McIntyre, Richard Madeley, John Prebble, Richard Hastings, Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson, Terry Dunfield, Peter Gadsden, Kevin Yates, Marc Bircham, Philip Turner, Felix Bowness, Jay Purvis, Lady Amelia Windsor, Janek Schaefer, Jack Huston, Kay Petre, Elliott Godfrey, Julia Adamson, Gordon Sweetzer, Alan Brewer, Victoria Hopper, Kim Braden, Roslyn Schwartz, Edward Hagarty Parry, Patrick Sykes. Excerpt: Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. In the mid 1960s, Clapton left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand," and graffiti in London declared "Clapton is God." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed, with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, the power trio Cream, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped gain reggae a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla," recorded by Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads," recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for serv...