Includes index.

Prologue: a clockwork strawberry -- Introduction: the supersurvivor -- Rick -- Pat -- Troubadour -- Rooster to engineer -- Yardbird -- Journeyman -- Bluesbreaker -- Just like Freddie -- Stiggy -- NSU -- The pheasantry -- 'Fuck! I'm rich!' -- Into the woods -- Million-dollar timebomb -- The domino effect -- Fanfare for Eric -- The black box -- E+P -- Wonderful tonight? -- 'God bless our wedlock' -- Made in Montserrat -- Captain Smirnoff -- 'Please, just don't cry' -- A place to stand -- 'The hem of God's garment'.

For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the unrivalled master of an indispensable tool, the solid-body electric guitar. His career has spanned the history of rock, and often shaped it via the seminal bands with whom he's played: the Yardbirds, John Mavall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes. Winner of 17 Grammys, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's only three-time inductee, he is an enduring influence on every other star soloist who ever wielded a pick.--Jacket.