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Eric Clapton

In the late '60s, British rock fans were so worshipful of Eric Clapton's guitar playing, they blasphemously scrawled "Clapton is God" on storefronts throughout London. In the years that followed, personal problems and tragedies - most notably, the tragic death of Clapton's infant son - proved the… more

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