Cream had the talent and clout to become one of the greatest bands of all time. Though, thanks to two factors, that never came to fruition.

“On the Wheels of Fire album, in the live portion ... As Jack Bruce explained in a 2012 interview with Guitarist, Clapton ...

It’s safe to say Cream would have gone kerplunk regardless of anything else. But the process was likely sped up when Clapton got his hands on an early copy of an album called Music From Big Pink.

Still, his solo career is spotty. Only a handful of Eric Clapton albums are on the same level as his classic LPs with the Yardbirds, Cream and Derek and the Dominos. As we rank Clapton's solo ...

How the pressure put on Cream by their record label were as much a part of why they broke up as Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and ...

Eric Clapton felt moved after listening to a Beatles album. This may have been because of the 3-day high he was experiencing.

But withdrawal, too, from the burden and responsibility of being rock’s foremost living guitarist, so that the former Cream ... albums with Tom Dowd struggled with a blandness problem, Clapton ...

Throughout the decades, no guitarist has been more prominent in the world of music than Eric Clapton. First as a member of highly influential bands like The Yardbirds, Blind Faith and Cream and ...

On his best work – early records by the Yardbirds, Cream’s brief catalog, the Dominos’ one album and even solo albums like ‘461 Ocean Boulevard’ and ‘Slowhand’ – Clapton has proven ...

A life in music as the iconic guitarist celebrates 80th birthday - A look back on the legendary guitar icon’s life and legacy ...

Having made his name with the Gibson brand in the mid to late 1960s, Clapton made the dramatic switch in the ‘70s and hasn’t looked back since ...