Eric Clapton

In the Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, and his prolific solo work, guitarist Eric Clapton has continually re-defined his own version of the blues. In late Sixties London, his worshippers advocated the slogan, “Clapton is God,” a phrase that originated with a now-famous piece of graffiti spray-painted on a London Underground. Over the next four decades, Clapton did little to dampen that reputation and was named number four in Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”