- Was banned from driving in France and had his British license confiscated after being clocked driving at 216 kilometres-per-hour on a French motorway. (2004)
- Has helped save a historical gentlemen's clothing establishment, Cordings, on London's famous Piccadilly, by buying a 50% share. (August 3, 2004)
- Blackie, one of his tresured guitars has set a world record for a guitar, fetching $959,500 at auction in New York. (June 28, 2004)
- Will host Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day event on June 4 - 6 at Dallas Fair Park and Cotton Bowl Stadium, featuring 60 guitarists. (May 31, 2004)
- Has designed a special charity T-shirt for the Crossroads Center, the drug treatment center he founded in 1997. (March 13, 2004)
- Will auction off 56 guitars from his collection on June 24 at Christie's in New York. (March 6, 2004)
- Couldn't perform his songs Tears in Heaven and My Father's Eyes, which deal with the loss of his son, during a series of concerts in Japan, citing he would feel conflicted to sing the songs at a time when he's happy. (March 2, 2004)
- Will stage a three-day music event in Dallas to raise funds for the Crossroads Center, a rehab facility that the famed guitarist founded on the island of Antigua in 1997. (February 27, 2004)
- Is to release an album of songs by Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson next month. (February 7, 2004)
- Received Commanders of the Order of the British Empire on December 31, 2003.
- Donated songs to a new compilation aimed at raising funds for Save the Children. (November 5, 2003)
- An anguished lament of unrequited love, Layla was inspired by a difficult love triangle between Clapton, his close friend George Harrison, and Harrison's wife Pattie (she and Clapton eventually married in 1979 and divorced in 1988).
- Aside from his two daugthers, he had a son, Conor, with Italian actress Lori Del Santo who died at the age of four after falling out of Clapton's New York high-rise apartment 11 years ago.
- Clapton wrote the Grammy-winning hit song Tears in Heaven in his son's honor.
- Following the advice of the Who's Pete Townsend, he underwent a controversial but effective electro-acupuncture treatment and was fully rehabilitated.
- Through the emotional truth of his music, he has sought refuge and release from the suffering of drug and alcohol addiction, personal relationships gone awry, and the deaths of several loved ones.
- Young Ricky (that's what his grandparent's called him) was a quiet and polite child, an above average student with an aptitude for art. He was raised believing that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister, to shield him the stigma that illegitimacy carried with it.
- Nigel Tufnel's name is a joke on Eric Clapton, derived from dull name and location in London. Eric became Nigel, and Clapton Pond became Tufnel Park: Nigel Tufnel (THIS IS THE SPINAL TAP (1984)).
- Nominated for Best Movie Song at MTV Movie Awards for PHENOMENON (1997)
- Nominated for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television at Grammy Awards for RUSH (1993)
- Nominated for Best Movie Song at MTV Movie Awards for LETHAL WEAPON 3 (1993)
- Nominated for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television at Grammy Awards for RUSH (1993)
- Nominated for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television for at Grammy Awards LETHAL WEAPON 3 (1993)
- Nominated for Best Movie Song at MTV Movie Awards for RUSH (1992)
- Nominated for Best Original Song - Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for RUSH (1992)
- Nominated for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special at Grammy Awards for BACK TO THE FUTURE (1986)
Quotes- "Since I got sober, I've just been trying to develop...a career with dignity, records where I can say, 'I finished it, it's complete. Whether or not it's up to the standard of the current thing, it's complete."
- "It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'"
Awards- BMI Film Music Award for LETHAL WEAPON 3 (1993)
- Grammy Awards: Album of the Year (1993)
- Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Unplugged (1993)
- Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Performance Male, Tears In Heaven (1993)
- Grammy Awards: Record of the Year (1993)
- Grammy Awards: Song of the Year (1993)
- BMI Film Music Award for LETHAL WEAPON 2 (1990)
- BMI Film Music Award for LETHAL WEAPON (1988)
- BAFTA Awards: Best Original Television Music, EDGE OF DARKNESS (1986)
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