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Hi, this is Eric Clapton here.
I just want to, uh...

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Express my sadness and uh...

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To say, thank you,

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to my dear friend BB King.

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I want to thank him
for all the inspiration and

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encouragement he gave me
as a player over the years and

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for the friendship that we enjoyed.

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Um...

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There's not a lot left to say
because this music, um...

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It's almost a thing
of the past now.

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So, uh, if you're not familiar
with his work then I...

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I would encourage you to go
out and find an album called,

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BB King Live at the Regal.

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Which is where it all really
started for me as a young player.

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I had a blissful childhood.

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I was raised with a great deal
of love by my parents.

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Especially by my mother.

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Because she loved me
in an unconditional way.

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MUSIC: Puffin' Billy

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People say I was pretty
spoilt and I was selfish.

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I'm sure I must've had some
qualities, but not from what I hear.

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I was very fond of painting
and drawing.

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Anything that was introverted.

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I knew that I was different.

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And I knew that other kids
at school

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regarded me as different or
maybe inferior

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and I did have a massive
inferiority complex.

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And I didn't know why.

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Then I found out that my
sister was really my mother.

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She left when I was very,
very young

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and I was raised
by my grandparents.

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Pat was very lively,
very difficult youngster.

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She wasn't easy.

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Rose used to say
she was a nightmare.

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She met this Canadian.

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He was over here in England
in the village.

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And it was one-night-stand.

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In those days to be pregnant

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and young
and you're not married was awful.

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Ric was born and she just went
to Canada.

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If Rose and Jack
hadn't have taken him on,

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I don't know what would have
happened to him. I really don't.

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I felt hurt.

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Very, very upset.

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At that point
I mistrusted everybody

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including my grandparents.

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I was so confused.

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It seemed to me that my life

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had been a lie.

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RADIO: Hello, children everywhere.

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This Uncle Mac.
Good morning, to you all.

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Here in London on Saturday.

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Uncle Mac was on the radio
on Saturday morning.

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And he would play
a variety of music for kids.

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How Much Is That Doggie
In The Window?

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All those kind of novelty
things he would play.

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And then, every now and then,

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he'd play
some different music.

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# All that time

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# Man, I've laid in my bed
so long... #

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You didn't hear that anywhere else.

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Except on
this kiddies' programme.

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And I thought, "Aw, man,
this is just for me."

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# ..The landlady decided to call

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# I was too evil to answer
the phone... #

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I didn't even know
that it was black music.

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I didn't know about black and
white being different stuff.

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But something about it got me.

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Something stirred me.

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Without me even being aware of it.

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It took all the pain away.

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Well, obviously when I got
to the age to buy records,

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I went and bought them.

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I could get the record player

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down to the level that was right
and play along

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to my heart's content.

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Nonstop.

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It was always one man

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with his guitar versus the world.

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He was completely alone and

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had no options other than
to just sing and play

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to ease his pain.

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And that echoed what I felt.

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So, more and more and more
and more,

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I wanted to be like that.

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I enrolled
in Kingston School of Art

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when I was 15.

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And I was really gripped by
the experience

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of getting involved
in a life in the arts.

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I wanted to know about
French literature.

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I wanted to know about French
cinema, Japanese cinema.

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I read Baudelaire.

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I read Kerouac,

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Ginsberg and Steinbeck.

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But I was absolutely addicted
to blues.

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Totally obsessed.

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I had a record collection.

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And I was skiving off a lot.

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Going to try and find imports
in jazz record stores.

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Muddy Waters, BB King,

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Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

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MUSIC: Mojo Working

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# Got my mojo working but it
just won't work on you

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# Got my mojo working but it
just won't work on you

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# I wanna love you so bad
till I don't know what to do... #

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There seemed to be
nobody that I could talk to,

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would have any interest in this.

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You had to travel miles
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We used to meet up at the Marquee
Club up in Oxford Street.

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The blues night was
a Thursday night.

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And you would meet like minds
there and just dance.

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I met Mick and Keith and Brian
over there.

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They were just part of this
crew that would go there.

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# ..Got my mojo working

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# Got my mojo working

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# Got my mojo working

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# Got my mojo working... #

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And so blues music led me to the
friends that I was gonna have.

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In those days, there was very little
interest in the blues.

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It wasn't popular music
in this country at all.

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I was one of those snobby
purist people.

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And I got very interested in
a style of piano playing,

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played by Muddy Waters'
pianist, Otis Spann.

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I thought well, this music
belongs in a band, really.

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So, I advertised in the
Melody Maker.

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This bass player got in touch
with me.

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Well, he said, "If only we
could find a guitar player.

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"We could really start to get
this music working together."

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MUSIC: Steppin' Out

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We hired a room in a pub
with a piano

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and this little fellow walked
in the door with a guitar.

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He was about 17.

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It was instantly clear
that he had a tremendous gift

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and had worked really hard
to develop it.

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We couldn't believe
how good he was.

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It was a very small outfit
with no equipment.

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We all went through one amplifier.
Vocals, guitars and everything.

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We did more rehearsing
than playing.

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But it was fun.

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Ben was the person I knew,

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from the minute I met him
was a serious guy.

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And he was a great piano player.

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He was a deep inspiration
for me.

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And a kind of
father figure, too.

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I thought Eric had an
obsessive interest in music.

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I thought it was the very core
of his being, really.

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He was very friendly
but very private too.

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And he tended to form very
close relationships

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with people suddenly,
none of which ever lasted

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for any length of time.

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Anyway, Eric decided he was

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going to be a professional
musician

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and so he had to make
a career move.

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FLOOR MANAGER: Ten, nine, eight...

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All right, take one now.
When you're ready.

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Four, three, two...

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# Early in the morning
'bout the break a day

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# That's when my baby
went away

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# Cryin' and pleadin'
won't do no good

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# Come back baby
I wish you would... #

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We had been working pretty regularly

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and we'd lost
our lead guitar player.

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Eric was in the same college
as we were.

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We were one of the few
southern British blues bands.

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So he joined the band sort of,
immediately.

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# Staying out all night long... #

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We did a weekly gig on
a Sunday night

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at a place called the
Crawdaddy Club in Richmond.

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It was like a party. Everyone would
get together and just go mad.

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And I developed a little
following amongst these people

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and I knew that there were
certain ways that I could

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get them going.

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# ..Baby, what's wrong with you?

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# Trying to love me
and some other man, too... #

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He had his own group of
followers that used to stand

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right in front of him on the stage.

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The Clapton clique.

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Usually everyone would

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go for the lead singer but
it was different in our band.

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It spread and it became
a fan base.

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MUSIC: I Wish You Would

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# ..Oh! #

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CHEERING

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It's great,
you know, it's good fun.

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There's lots of people
all comin' in, which is nice.

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And we're having
a good time, you know,

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with Freddy and the Dreamers,

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and The Yardbirds
and everybody. It's good.

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We were considered
a good live act.

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We were asked to do
The Beatles Christmas show.

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And we thought
they were wankers.

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But I got on with George
very well

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because he was a guitar player.

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We were both in bands

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and we did a Christmas season
in the Hammersmith Odeon

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together and Eric
was in The Yardbirds.

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And we met then.

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# Can't do that... #

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So people that came
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were really into the music.

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When The Beatles came on,

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they'd just start screaming
so that you couldn't actually

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hear anything
but the screaming.

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We would watch from the wings

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and I would see how pointless
these guys thought it all was.

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Already.

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George was clearly
an innovator.

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But the sad part was

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that no-one listened.

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And I thought The Yardbirds
had real understanding

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about what it was
really all about.

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And it wasn't about being famous
or getting on TV or having a hit.

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MUSIC: For Your Love

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Jim, Keith and myself

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started to have many ideas
about areas of music

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we wanted to pursue.

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And when the music publisher
came along

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with the song For Your Love,

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it just felt absolutely right.

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# ..I'd give you everything
and more

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# And that's for sure... #

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It was pop.

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All the material we were doing
was blues music

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which hadn't even properly
filtered through

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to the mainstream here.

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So we were
pioneering something.

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I noticed they were deliberately
growing Beatles haircuts.

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I thought we've sold out.
I've sold out.

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I've gotta get out of here.

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Eric played on the studio sessions
for For Your Love.

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And then immediately left.

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We had this massive record suddenly
and no lead guitar player.

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I was so disheartened
by the music business,

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because it seemed to me that
everywhere I looked

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everyone was on the make.

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I think I was probably a nasty
piece of work

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to have around, you know,
if you were tryin' to launch

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into the successful music world.

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Eric came to my house in Oxford.

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I was living on my own so,
it was a one-to-one thing.

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And we just talked.

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I wanted his advice
on what to do

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because I liked playing the
guitar and I love blues music.

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But I thought I was gonna
give up everything.

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And I stayed with him for about two
weeks and watched him carve.

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We both have pretty
dysfunctional families.

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And we would sort of sit
and talk about these things.

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And I thought his interest in
his music was so obsessive

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that he didn't really have
a choice about what he was

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doing with his time.

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He just had to go where
it was best to go.

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I'm sure it's been with him
all his life.

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And while I was there
someone tracked me down.

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And it was John Mayall.

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INDISTINCT TELEVISION CHATTER

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TV: Thanks, Bu.
And before we run out of time,

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I think it's about time
we learn to do the Crocodile Walk,

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with Johnny Mayall
and the Bluesbreakers.

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# See that crocodile walk

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# Hey, and he lookin' my way

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# And he got no place to stay

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# Any minute today

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# He got a long way to walk

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# Lookin' for a home

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# Hey, hey, crocodile

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# Yeah, I wanna see you smile

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# And, hey, hey, crocodile

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# I wanna see now, hey, hey, hey!

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# Yeah, crocodile, now tell me

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# He might settle down now, baby

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# Ooh, yeah

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# Hey, hey, crocodile... #

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When it came to blues
there was nobody like him.

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Eric was that special.

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He knew the history of it.
The background of it.

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And he had the emotional
feel for it.

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And the technique
to express it.

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He was given this freedom

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to let loose.

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# ..Through the park

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# Disappearing in the dark

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# We'll make the dogs all bark... #

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Eric, how much do you think that

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his influence helped blues
based bands?

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If you're gonna take it back
to the roots

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it's between him and Alexis Korner
and they're the ones

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that started actually
physically playing it.

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And there were lots of people that
collected old blues records

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but that didn't play. But he worked
in the clubs playing it.

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I mean, he's responsible for
the whole thing, really.

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The minute I got into that band

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I joined a working schedule
I'd never seen before.

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We worked seven nights a week.

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We played every night.

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The Twisted Wheel in Manchester.

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The Mojo in Sheffield.

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The Boathouse in Nottingham.

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The Club a'Gogo in Newcastle.

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I still had no idea
how you talk to girls.

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I was very shy.

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And then suddenly I was
dating, picking up girls.

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It was like a girl in every gig.

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Eric lived in Ripley and he didn't
have transport.

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So it became a matter of convenience
that he'd stay at our house.

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There was a spare room.

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So he moved in there.

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I had the family, you know,

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so he was living in
the family house.

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So it was very suburban.

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The regular life with the mum
and dad and three children.

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At night we did the gigs.

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He was very cool. He had an
incredible collection of records

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that I listened to all day
long. For about a year,

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I just would put on records
and play along with them.

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and I went at it.

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A lot of my influences
around that time

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weren't just guitar players,
they were other singers

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and also Indian music.

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I listened
to Bismillah Khan a lot.

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I wanted my guitar to sound
like his reed instrument.

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One of the biggest influences

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on what I wanted to achieve

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with a guitar
was Little Walter.

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The sound he made with
the harmonica,

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playing through an amplifier.

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And it was thick and fat.

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Very melodic.

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I had been wandering into
music shops

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in the west end of London.
And plugging a guitar in.

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I'd try that guitar with that amp.

331
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And I found this amp
way out in West London

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and it was perfect.

333
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It was an absolutely
perfect sound.

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00:24:17,580 --> 00:24:21,040
He showed up with
that guitar and that amp

335
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,620
and immediately people started
to idolise what he was doing.

336
00:24:27,790 --> 00:24:30,910
And to certain extent that's
what bugged him the most.

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He didn't want to be
looked at and inspected.

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He just wanted to play the way
he wanted to play

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and leave him alone.

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MUSIC: Steppin' Out

341
00:24:47,450 --> 00:24:50,790
Now, from the time
that you left The Yardbirds

342
00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:53,580
and joined up with John Mayall
and company...

343
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,620
..your head seemed to change
tremendously as far as

344
00:24:57,620 --> 00:24:59,620
your music was concerned.

345
00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:00,910
What kind of things were
happening to your head then?

346
00:25:00,910 --> 00:25:04,620
Well, I really didn't change
as much as you probably think

347
00:25:04,620 --> 00:25:08,620
because it's not really, you know,
an individual change.

348
00:25:08,620 --> 00:25:10,700
It was just put into
a different context.

349
00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:13,450
So, I mean, the things that I was
doing reflected differently,

350
00:25:13,450 --> 00:25:15,290
you know. I mean the...

351
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The context of The Yardbirds
as opposed to John Mayall

352
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is totally different.
One is pop and one is...

353
00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:23,290
Was then even more earthier
blues than it is now.

354
00:25:23,290 --> 00:25:25,330
Stuff you played then.

355
00:25:25,330 --> 00:25:27,580
And you know, I just played
the same things

356
00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:30,120
but they just
sounded different.

357
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,700
Take three.

358
00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,700
We had been
on the road for long enough

359
00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,500
to go in and just play our set.

360
00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,870
But at that period there were
technicians doing the recording

361
00:25:50,870 --> 00:25:54,500
that just came up to your amp
with a microphone,

362
00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:57,410
stuck it two inches away from
the front of the amplifier.

363
00:25:58,750 --> 00:26:02,120
It seemed to me that
if you wanted to get

364
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,500
the atmosphere that we were
getting in the clubs,

365
00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,290
you needed for it to sound
like you were in the audience.

366
00:26:07,290 --> 00:26:10,410
Ten feet away.
Not three inches.

367
00:26:12,910 --> 00:26:14,620
And so when the guy did that

368
00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:18,120
on that day that we went in
to record,

369
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:22,410
I said, "Excuse me, I don't
want it there. Put it over there."

370
00:26:22,410 --> 00:26:25,250
He said, "Well, you're making
our job really difficult."

371
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:29,330
And I said, "I don't care,
that's the way I want it."

372
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,540
With Eric playing at the sort of
volume he was playing,

373
00:26:39,540 --> 00:26:41,500
there was no way that anyone could
deal with it.

374
00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:45,620
They didn't know what to do. So we
had to find a way to deal with it.

375
00:26:45,620 --> 00:26:48,700
That was the most
exciting part of the project

376
00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:51,790
because when we found how
to do it, we had the sound.

377
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MUSIC: All Your Love

378
00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:51,580
That changed everything.

379
00:27:51,580 --> 00:27:54,250
Before Eric, guitar playing
in England had been

380
00:27:54,250 --> 00:27:56,500
Hank Marvin and The Shadows.

381
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,410
Very, very simple,
not much technique.

382
00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:04,410
Suddenly we heard something
that was completely different.

383
00:28:04,410 --> 00:28:07,370
The record sounded unlike
anything that any of us

384
00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:09,910
had ever heard before, it was
completely revolutionary.

385
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,660
Eric, now that
blues have started to emerge

386
00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:22,000
as a really very powerful force
on the pop scene.

387
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,790
And everyone's latching
on to it even though

388
00:28:23,790 --> 00:28:25,450
they don't necessarily
understand the music.

389
00:28:25,450 --> 00:28:28,120
Now, do you think
this is a bad thing?

390
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,290
No, because, you see,
what will happen is that

391
00:28:31,290 --> 00:28:33,200
after a long time, they
will become

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00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,790
so well educated musically

393
00:28:35,790 --> 00:28:39,250
that they'll be able to
dig spades singing the blues

394
00:28:39,250 --> 00:28:42,450
instead of having to take
watered down imitations.

395
00:28:42,450 --> 00:28:44,000
They won't have to accept that any
more

396
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,660
because they'll be free thinking
enough

397
00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:48,620
to be able to look
at a coloured man and dig it

398
00:28:48,620 --> 00:28:52,080
without having
any hang ups. You know?

399
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,290
And then, you know, all the white
guys are gonna have to find

400
00:28:55,290 --> 00:28:57,450
something their own to play, that is
good enough to stand up to it

401
00:28:57,450 --> 00:29:01,330
because they won't be accepted,
they'll be rejected.

402
00:29:01,330 --> 00:29:04,040
There won't be any white
blues bands, it couldn't happen.

403
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,830
What is it you think
about the music that draws

404
00:29:07,830 --> 00:29:10,870
young white kids to it? Now, you
mentioned the fact that, uh,

405
00:29:10,870 --> 00:29:13,620
groups like The Rolling Stones have
turned them on to the music.

406
00:29:13,620 --> 00:29:16,040
I think white kids really
love a beautiful sound.

407
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,330
That deep tone. Then even white kids
sing the blues.

408
00:29:20,330 --> 00:29:23,000
They can play more blues than
I can ever dream of playing.

409
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,910
But you know, they'll never be able
to vocal like me, you know that.

410
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,870
And I'm singing that out to the
church and got that big tone,

411
00:29:29,870 --> 00:29:33,750
I guess that's what the white kids
come to see me for often.

412
00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:38,450
Does it have something
to do with the feeling that...

413
00:29:38,450 --> 00:29:40,500
That's what I'm saying,
that tone is the feeling,

414
00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:42,000
you got the feeling in there,
for those kids.

415
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,040
And there's no way
you can counterfeit that?

416
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,290
You can't counterfeit that.

417
00:29:45,290 --> 00:29:46,910
You mean, in other words...

418
00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:49,450
The young kids can learn
to play a guitar that way

419
00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:51,910
but they can't learn to sing that
way? Like me? White kids?

420
00:29:51,910 --> 00:29:54,410
Yeah. Oh, no.

421
00:29:54,410 --> 00:29:56,370
You know better than that.
Why is that?

422
00:29:56,370 --> 00:30:00,660
They ain't got enough soul and they
didn't have enough hard times.

423
00:30:03,950 --> 00:30:06,080
I came around to Jones' house
one day

424
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,830
and he'd been out in the garden
reading The Melody Maker

425
00:30:08,830 --> 00:30:10,580
and he was furious. And he said,

426
00:30:10,580 --> 00:30:14,750
"Eric's rehearsing with a band
in some church."

427
00:30:14,750 --> 00:30:16,500
And I said, "Oh, is he?"

428
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:18,870
All of a sudden, there it was.

429
00:30:18,870 --> 00:30:21,250
There was this new group
that's gonna be

430
00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:23,200
making its debut somewhere
and that was it.

431
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,200
It was very sudden.

432
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,870
Total lunatic.

433
00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:29,700
Just said he's gonna quit.

434
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:31,700
MUSIC: I Feel Free

435
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,000
# I feel free

436
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,000
# I feel free... #

437
00:30:44,790 --> 00:30:47,200
I wanted to be a blues trio.

438
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,450
Fusing jazz and rock.

439
00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:55,040
It was just a thing where the three
of us liked one another's playing

440
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,950
and we decided to do it.
# ..I feel free

441
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,200
# I feel free

442
00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:06,750
# Feel when I dance with you

443
00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:10,750
# We move like the sea

444
00:31:12,870 --> 00:31:16,700
# You, you're all I want to know

445
00:31:18,410 --> 00:31:22,700
# I feel free

446
00:31:23,790 --> 00:31:27,950
# I feel free

447
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:34,290
# I feel free

448
00:31:34,290 --> 00:31:37,290
# I can walk down the street
there's no-one there

449
00:31:37,290 --> 00:31:39,620
# Though the pavements
are one huge crowd

450
00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:41,750
# I can drive down the road
my eyes don't see

451
00:31:41,750 --> 00:31:44,620
# Though my mind
wants to cry out loud

452
00:31:45,830 --> 00:31:49,750
# I

453
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,040
# I

454
00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:00,370
# I...

455
00:32:01,370 --> 00:32:05,620
# I feel free

456
00:32:06,910 --> 00:32:12,080
# I feel free

457
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,120
# I feel free... #

458
00:32:58,790 --> 00:33:00,870
The first time
I saw Jimi, I think

459
00:33:00,870 --> 00:33:03,620
it was a gig we did
in London

460
00:33:03,620 --> 00:33:06,950
and I saw him a couple
of times at the speakeasy.

461
00:33:06,950 --> 00:33:11,080
He used to come around to
the flat a lot and stay there.

462
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,790
We had a great time, really.

463
00:33:12,790 --> 00:33:16,830
He was so shy, and quiet,
withdrawn and gentle.

464
00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:22,450
We talk about every day
kind of ambitions, you know?

465
00:33:22,450 --> 00:33:24,290
And the way we want
the world to be

466
00:33:24,290 --> 00:33:26,500
but the conversation never
stayed that way for very long.

467
00:33:26,500 --> 00:33:30,500
Cos Jimi had such
a surreal mind.

468
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:33,620
Once you start going
talking about anything.

469
00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:36,200
You'd end up talking about
flying saucers, you know?

470
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,500
Sort of purple velvet moons.
It's like.

471
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:43,370
And you couldn't keep him on the
ground for any length of time.

472
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,290
Eric came to my house in Oxford
with Ginger

473
00:34:31,290 --> 00:34:34,540
and said he was
forming Cream

474
00:34:34,540 --> 00:34:37,700
and would I like to go
and work for them.

475
00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:40,700
I think he wanted somebody around
who he knew.

476
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,830
He was enjoying the new fruits
of success hugely

477
00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:49,370
and the psychedelic musical
venture that was happening.

478
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,750
Eric and Cream
came to New York

479
00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:59,120
and they came to record
in our studio.

480
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,870
They played songs
that are not absolutely

481
00:35:04,870 --> 00:35:08,700
in a 12 or eight bar form
but have a blues feel.

482
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,450
It's a new music.

483
00:35:12,450 --> 00:35:16,000
Especially when Eric
played the guitar.

484
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,620
MUSIC: Hey Joe

485
00:35:19,540 --> 00:35:21,750
When I walked
into my studio,

486
00:35:21,750 --> 00:35:24,290
I had a bunch of English
roadies setting up

487
00:35:24,290 --> 00:35:26,410
double stacks
of Marshalls

488
00:35:26,410 --> 00:35:30,000
and double bass drums
and double cymbal stands

489
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,500
and so I just looked
and I thought,

490
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:32,750
"What, have I got two
of everything?"

491
00:35:32,750 --> 00:35:34,330
I couldn't believe what
I was looking at,

492
00:35:34,330 --> 00:35:35,500
it was just three men.

493
00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:46,370
MUSIC: Strange Brew

494
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,580
# Strange brew

495
00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:07,660
# Kill what's inside of you

496
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:15,950
# She's a witch of trouble
in electric blue

497
00:36:15,950 --> 00:36:20,580
# In her own mad mind
she's in love with you

498
00:36:20,580 --> 00:36:22,330
# With you

499
00:36:23,540 --> 00:36:26,160
# Now what you gonna do?

500
00:36:29,870 --> 00:36:34,750
# Strange brew
kill what's inside of you... #

501
00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:02,370
We were recording
in Atlantic Studios.

502
00:38:02,370 --> 00:38:05,290
We're sharing that workspace
with Ray Charles,

503
00:38:05,290 --> 00:38:07,450
Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding

504
00:38:07,450 --> 00:38:12,290
and Wilson Pickett,
so we were in their play room.

505
00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:15,620
A lot of the time, we were
going out as Otis Redding

506
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:17,950
was coming in
or Aretha Franklin

507
00:38:17,950 --> 00:38:20,120
was coming, the sessions
that would overlap.

508
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,790
And one day Ahmet said,
"What would you like to play?"

509
00:38:23,790 --> 00:38:27,580
And I said, "Oof, would I?
Are you kidding?!"

510
00:38:27,580 --> 00:38:29,950
OK. Stand-by.

511
00:38:29,950 --> 00:38:32,000
I looked in
and there was Joe South,

512
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,250
Bobby Hinton, Bobby Womack.

513
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:36,830
There were like five
guitar players on the floor

514
00:38:36,830 --> 00:38:39,290
and Aretha on piano, singing.

515
00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:43,330
And I went in there
with my permed hair

516
00:38:43,330 --> 00:38:45,750
and pink trousers,
high-heeled boots.

517
00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:48,290
Looking like a freak from Mars

518
00:38:48,290 --> 00:38:50,330
and they looked at me like, "What's
this?"

519
00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:53,290
And I sat down
and played.

520
00:38:53,290 --> 00:38:56,580
# If you had a dollar

521
00:39:00,450 --> 00:39:02,910
# And I had a dime

522
00:39:06,620 --> 00:39:09,790
# I wonder could I borrow yours?

523
00:39:11,410 --> 00:39:15,580
# As easy as you could mine

524
00:39:18,750 --> 00:39:22,410
# Because when you need
my love

525
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:28,080
# And I gave time after time

526
00:39:30,580 --> 00:39:35,080
# And turn around
to find me no returns

527
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:41,330
# Then, my friend
you've used my dimes... #

528
00:39:41,330 --> 00:39:43,700
Aretha Franklin started
laughing when

529
00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:49,250
she saw Eric because he was wearing
psychedelic costume.

530
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:51,500
But when Eric played
the guitar,

531
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,450
Aretha stopped laughing

532
00:39:53,450 --> 00:39:55,370
because it was the real thing.

533
00:39:55,370 --> 00:39:58,540
# ..Your heart to do for me

534
00:39:58,540 --> 00:40:03,410
# Then, baby, just don't
darken my front door

535
00:40:04,410 --> 00:40:06,250
# Baby

536
00:40:07,950 --> 00:40:12,700
# I want you to be as good
to me as I am to you

537
00:40:17,830 --> 00:40:19,660
# Baby... #

538
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:22,160
Man, that was it,
I thought if that comes out.

539
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,910
I don't have
to do anything again.

540
00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:29,660
# ..Listen,
don't you walk around here

541
00:40:31,910 --> 00:40:35,790
# Feeling like you can
treat me any ol' way... #

542
00:40:44,450 --> 00:40:46,750
I had just arrived
from Paris to be a model.

543
00:40:47,950 --> 00:40:50,870
When I met Eric, I didn't know
who he was at all.

544
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:55,870
He was a bit shy, he was
a bit inhibited at first.

545
00:40:57,290 --> 00:41:00,250
But then we started
going out together.

546
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:03,660
And we pretty much moved in together
very quickly.

547
00:41:07,250 --> 00:41:10,000
Charlotte was very funny

548
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,660
and very, very open minded.

549
00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:14,790
We had a friendship.

550
00:41:14,790 --> 00:41:17,250
We just were comfortable together.

551
00:41:18,290 --> 00:41:22,580
She saw who I was

552
00:41:22,580 --> 00:41:24,160
for better or worse.

553
00:41:26,580 --> 00:41:29,580
I just started feeling like
Alice in Wonderland.

554
00:41:29,580 --> 00:41:33,120
I was totally into the Beatles.

555
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,750
The next minute, we were invited

556
00:41:35,750 --> 00:41:41,160
to take part of this special event
by the Beatles.

557
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,580
It was like, "OK."
You know, normal.

558
00:41:45,580 --> 00:41:48,200
# Learn how to play the game

559
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,620
# It's easy

560
00:41:52,870 --> 00:41:56,370
# Nothing you can make
that can't be made... #

561
00:41:56,370 --> 00:41:58,200
When I moved into
the Kings Road.

562
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,330
George would drop by on his route
home out to Esher.

563
00:42:04,410 --> 00:42:06,330
And I've been going
to Esher a few times

564
00:42:06,330 --> 00:42:10,290
taking acid together, bit by
bit, we were becoming friends.

565
00:42:10,290 --> 00:42:12,790
# ..All you need is love

566
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,750
# All you need is love

567
00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:24,080
# All you need is love, love

568
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,290
# Love is all you need... #

569
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000
The audience there was so much
more advanced.

570
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,450
Cream very quickly realised,
they could just open up.

571
00:43:43,450 --> 00:43:46,750
I mean they would play the
same number for 40 minutes.

572
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,910
Improvisation every night.

573
00:44:40,950 --> 00:44:43,620
And the audience
couldn't have enough of it.

574
00:44:43,620 --> 00:44:47,500
It was exactly what
they had wanted to hear

575
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:49,290
and it had suddenly arrived.

576
00:45:07,370 --> 00:45:09,950
CHEERING

577
00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:47,250
MUSIC: Crossroads

578
00:46:05,830 --> 00:46:08,700
# I went down
to the crossroads

579
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,790
# Fell down on my knees

580
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:18,290
# Down to the crossroads
fell down on my knees

581
00:46:21,330 --> 00:46:22,790
# Asked the Lord above for mercy

582
00:46:22,790 --> 00:46:25,200
# Save me if you please

583
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,040
# I went down to the crossroads

584
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,160
# Tried to flag a ride

585
00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:39,910
# Down to the crossroads
tried to flag a ride

586
00:46:41,950 --> 00:46:46,910
# Nobody seemed to know me
everybody passed me by... #

587
00:46:50,290 --> 00:46:52,910
Many of these young players
coming along today

588
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:56,200
have been really turned on by
the way you play the guitar.

589
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,540
I'm grateful some of them
seem to like me.

590
00:46:59,540 --> 00:47:02,080
I'm grateful because

591
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,830
to me, it seemed
to open a few doors for us

592
00:47:05,830 --> 00:47:10,370
that seemed like that was
never gonna be open.

593
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:16,120
Because until the days of
rock'n'roll a lot of times,

594
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,370
a lot of the places, we...
They just wouldn't accept us.

595
00:47:18,370 --> 00:47:22,500
I'm not speaking racially,

596
00:47:22,500 --> 00:47:23,950
I'm just talking about
the people at home

597
00:47:23,950 --> 00:47:26,290
that just wouldn't accept us
in some of the places that...

598
00:47:26,290 --> 00:47:28,580
The door's open now,
that you can go into.

599
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,080
BB King played
the joints for years.

600
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,830
Otis Redding was
a black R&B singer

601
00:47:36,830 --> 00:47:39,160
who played the southern route.

602
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,910
And what rock'n'roll
or the popularity

603
00:47:41,910 --> 00:47:45,330
of rock'n'roll has afforded us
is the opportunity to use

604
00:47:45,330 --> 00:47:47,450
good rock'n'roll
as bait to bring

605
00:47:47,450 --> 00:47:50,290
the people in, but once
they got it, present them with

606
00:47:50,290 --> 00:47:54,160
uh...some of the people who,
were it not for them,

607
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,000
there wouldn't be any rock'n'roll.

608
00:47:57,660 --> 00:48:00,750
I was playing
in New York City

609
00:48:00,750 --> 00:48:03,290
and I've been hearing about
this young guitarist,

610
00:48:03,290 --> 00:48:06,330
the Cream and so on.

611
00:48:06,330 --> 00:48:09,200
I met this young man.

612
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,910
Long hair and very quiet like.

613
00:48:13,910 --> 00:48:15,580
We had a jam session.

614
00:48:17,580 --> 00:48:21,910
Eric seemed to take time, it's like
putting pieces in a puzzle.

615
00:48:21,910 --> 00:48:24,450
Like an old seasoned guy.

616
00:48:25,660 --> 00:48:28,080
It could sound good,
but if you gonna play

617
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:33,160
more than two or three notes,
you need to have a story to tell.

618
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,450
And he told me some very good ones.

619
00:48:36,750 --> 00:48:41,040
White America had
never paid attention to blues.

620
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,540
So thanks to Eric, really,
it awakened.

621
00:48:44,540 --> 00:48:46,410
Started them listening.

622
00:48:46,410 --> 00:48:48,950
Now a lot of doors were
opened for BB King

623
00:48:48,950 --> 00:48:50,910
and many other people like myself.

624
00:48:58,830 --> 00:49:02,120
They did like 300 shows a year.

625
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,620
And had a huge, huge following

626
00:49:04,620 --> 00:49:08,540
based on their live performances.

627
00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:11,410
So at that time,
Cream got to be

628
00:49:11,410 --> 00:49:13,790
the biggest band in the world.

629
00:49:13,790 --> 00:49:17,540
Much bigger than the Rolling
Stones and the Beatles.

630
00:49:21,330 --> 00:49:25,250
SONG CRESCENDOS, CROWD ROARS

631
00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:30,250
Eric Clapton, please.

632
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,370
When you're improvising,
do you use stock phrases?

633
00:49:36,370 --> 00:49:38,540
Um, yeah, there are
always phrases

634
00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:41,250
that I always play
that are stock phrases

635
00:49:41,250 --> 00:49:42,540
that I work from
you know,

636
00:49:42,540 --> 00:49:43,790
which are just like...

637
00:49:43,790 --> 00:49:46,410
HE PLAYS RIFF

638
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:51,450
All these runs.

639
00:49:51,450 --> 00:49:54,160
You know, I've put
together from old phrases

640
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,500
that I've first started on like...

641
00:49:56,500 --> 00:50:00,000
HE PLAYS FLOURISHING RUN

642
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,410
And then they're just
kind of messed up

643
00:50:02,410 --> 00:50:03,950
with other things
which I've learned like...

644
00:50:03,950 --> 00:50:08,330
HE PLAYS FLOURISHED RUN

645
00:50:08,330 --> 00:50:10,500
If a guy likes playing football,

646
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:12,290
then that's what
he'll use to get...

647
00:50:12,290 --> 00:50:14,620
To get all of his,
kind of, basic...

648
00:50:14,620 --> 00:50:17,620
Kind of, angry bits
out of him,

649
00:50:17,620 --> 00:50:19,620
you know, that you build up
through any day.

650
00:50:19,620 --> 00:50:21,660
You can just, someone
is tooting the horn

651
00:50:21,660 --> 00:50:23,500
in the car behind you
and you'll get angry

652
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:25,250
and you have no release
for it, you know?

653
00:50:25,250 --> 00:50:27,160
Well, that happens
to everybody,

654
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,700
but you know, I've got
the advantage of being

655
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:33,410
able to sort of play that out
on the guitar.

656
00:50:33,410 --> 00:50:37,750
By being sort of, um, fairly
aggressive in the way I'm playing,

657
00:50:37,750 --> 00:50:41,040
not the way I use it. That can be
done, too, with people like The Who.

658
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,410
Can you show us? What you mean, you
want me to break the guitar up?

659
00:50:44,410 --> 00:50:47,000
No, not quite, just an example of
aggression in your music.

660
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,540
Yeah, right.

661
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:51,370
HE PLAYS

662
00:51:19,580 --> 00:51:22,200
Eric wasn't the best communicator.

663
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,750
There was a lot of unsaid
things, you know,

664
00:51:24,750 --> 00:51:27,120
about where he was at.

665
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,830
He enjoyed part of it
very much.

666
00:51:29,830 --> 00:51:33,370
There was an aspect
of being adored.

667
00:51:33,370 --> 00:51:37,450
But it was difficult to keep up.

668
00:51:37,450 --> 00:51:39,620
And to be on tour
for months and months.

669
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,500
There was constant,
serious dispute

670
00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:55,620
between Jack and Ginger
every day.

671
00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:58,950
It didn't matter to them what they
were arguing about,really.

672
00:51:58,950 --> 00:52:02,330
It was just, they were
at each other's throats

673
00:52:02,330 --> 00:52:04,120
and it was very intense.

674
00:52:06,620 --> 00:52:09,450
We shut one another out,
I mean I would just run away

675
00:52:09,450 --> 00:52:11,370
from him, we never socialisd.

676
00:52:11,370 --> 00:52:14,660
We never really shared ideas
any more, we just got

677
00:52:14,660 --> 00:52:16,790
together on stage and played
and then went our different ways.

678
00:52:18,580 --> 00:52:21,120
The whole thing was awful.

679
00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:41,120
STREET BUSTLE

680
00:53:09,660 --> 00:53:11,370
Eric was picking up his
guitar at home.

681
00:53:11,370 --> 00:53:14,500
and twanging on it
nonstop.

682
00:53:15,620 --> 00:53:17,620
Which is not always
the easiest thing

683
00:53:17,620 --> 00:53:20,080
whe you're trying to have a
conversation with somebody.

684
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:27,250
I remember finding myself
talking and I would get

685
00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:29,200
a riff from the guitar back,

686
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,580
rather than proper communication.

687
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,910
It was very hard to keep up on
an emotional, personal level.

688
00:53:44,410 --> 00:53:47,160
You know,
I'm in love with Eric.

689
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,080
And then the world's
in love with him.

690
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,250
We just didn't talk about
feelings.

691
00:53:53,250 --> 00:53:55,450
Eric just wouldn't go there.

692
00:53:58,450 --> 00:54:01,660
I always felt he was
running away from something.

693
00:54:07,660 --> 00:54:09,950
He started going to George
and Pattie's quite a lot

694
00:54:09,950 --> 00:54:12,580
when they lived in Surrey.

695
00:54:12,580 --> 00:54:14,450
When Cream broke up,
I think spiritually,

696
00:54:14,450 --> 00:54:16,290
he was really
rather bereft.

697
00:54:16,290 --> 00:54:19,290
And he enjoyed hanging out
and played guitar and started

698
00:54:19,290 --> 00:54:20,620
writing all day.

699
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,450
Yes?

700
00:54:24,450 --> 00:54:26,620
Start again. OK.

701
00:54:26,620 --> 00:54:28,120
ERIC, VOICEOVER: George said,
"I'm going to do this song,

702
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,330
"I want you to play
the guitar."

703
00:54:30,330 --> 00:54:32,120
How we doing, Hal?

704
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,790
We did maybe two or three takes,
and there was a very few

705
00:54:35,790 --> 00:54:37,540
attempts at the song.

706
00:54:37,540 --> 00:54:40,160
Yes? Just start again.

707
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,790
They were fast and furious,
they were harsh judges.

708
00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:48,080
MUSIC: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

709
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:07,750
# I look at you all see the love

710
00:55:07,750 --> 00:55:10,080
# There that's sleeping

711
00:55:11,910 --> 00:55:15,750
# While my guitar gently weeps

712
00:55:18,540 --> 00:55:24,450
# I look at the floor and I see

713
00:55:24,450 --> 00:55:27,870
# It needs sweeping

714
00:55:27,870 --> 00:55:33,330
# Still my guitar gently weeps... #

715
00:56:09,330 --> 00:56:10,870
It was just one policeman.

716
00:56:10,870 --> 00:56:13,580
His name was Inspector Pilcher.

717
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:15,410
He wanted to bust
all of the people

718
00:56:15,410 --> 00:56:17,790
that were in the pop business
for drugs.

719
00:56:17,790 --> 00:56:19,620
He ended up getting done
for corruption.

720
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:26,500
He busted George and the word was,
he had planted dope.

721
00:56:28,370 --> 00:56:30,500
Ginger knew someone
in the police force,

722
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:33,250
who said I was on Pilcher's list.

723
00:56:34,750 --> 00:56:36,540
That night, the Pheasantry
got raided

724
00:56:36,540 --> 00:56:39,580
and they planted
hash everywhere.

725
00:56:40,790 --> 00:56:44,830
So I thought, well,
I better get out of town.

726
00:56:44,830 --> 00:56:49,540
# See the love
there that's sleeping...

727
00:56:51,540 --> 00:56:54,580
# While my guitar
gently weeps... #

728
00:56:58,950 --> 00:57:01,540
It's the first time I spent
any money really,

729
00:57:01,540 --> 00:57:03,700
any of the money
that I made with Cream.

730
00:57:03,700 --> 00:57:06,000
I never owned anything
before.

731
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,200
I mean, I'd been bumming
around all my life

732
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,870
from the day that I first
left Ripley.

733
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:16,540
I just fell in love with it.

734
00:57:16,540 --> 00:57:18,870
I had the most incredible
feeling of coming home.

735
00:57:23,790 --> 00:57:25,330
Now, Eric had a house in Newhurst

736
00:57:25,330 --> 00:57:29,410
which is just beyond Esher. So it's
quite easy for the two of them

737
00:57:29,410 --> 00:57:32,040
to go to each other's houses.

738
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:36,000
And it was just like a really nice
friendship

739
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,620
going on.

740
00:57:37,620 --> 00:57:41,830
George had a lot of respect
for Eric's guitar playing.

741
00:57:41,830 --> 00:57:44,120
It was just four friends.

742
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:48,330
We'd hang out together and we'd go
to the restaurants and bars.

743
00:57:48,330 --> 00:57:50,660
He used to come over
to the house quite a lot.

744
00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:54,790
Not always to see George.

745
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,290
I think as time went on.

746
00:57:58,290 --> 00:58:01,370
You know how some people
have that stare that's longer

747
00:58:01,370 --> 00:58:03,370
than it should be?

748
00:58:03,370 --> 00:58:05,200
And I caught a couple of those.

749
00:58:11,750 --> 00:58:13,450
I knew it was wrong.

750
00:58:15,330 --> 00:58:17,290
George was my best friend.

751
00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:24,080
But I felt a compulsion
towards her.

752
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,450
That she was probably
the most desirable woman

753
00:58:27,450 --> 00:58:28,910
I had ever met.

754
00:58:30,450 --> 00:58:32,790
And even though, they were married,
I wanted her.

755
00:58:35,330 --> 00:58:38,200
Even though she was unavailable

756
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,040
and that frightened me.

757
00:58:44,620 --> 00:58:48,410
I felt there was a big confusion in
his head about women.

758
00:58:48,410 --> 00:58:50,540
And what they represented to him.

759
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,790
It was so intense
and he was so intense.

760
00:59:01,290 --> 00:59:03,790
BIRDS CALL

761
00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:33,750
When I was nine,
my grandmother said to me.

762
00:59:33,750 --> 00:59:36,450
This lady's coming
and she's your real mum

763
00:59:36,450 --> 00:59:39,660
and we're gonna go and meet her and
she's gonna stay for a little while.

764
00:59:41,580 --> 00:59:46,700
She arrived by boat and we went to
meet her at Southampton.

765
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:49,620
She was on
one of those big liners.

766
00:59:49,620 --> 00:59:51,620
She came with two kids.

767
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,000
Eric was very quiet that day.

768
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,250
He's very shy.

769
00:59:59,540 --> 01:00:01,870
He wanted to see his real mum.

770
01:00:02,870 --> 01:00:06,700
And I think 'Ric
was looking for love.

771
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,000
We got back to Ripley

772
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:15,160
and then when everyone came down to
get a cup of tea or whatever.

773
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,700
I wanted to know
the most important thing.

774
01:00:19,950 --> 01:00:22,660
"You're my mum,
are you gonna be my mum?"

775
01:00:25,660 --> 01:00:31,910
And she said, "No. I think it's best
we leave it the way it is."

776
01:00:35,910 --> 01:00:37,660
It was so cruel.

777
01:00:37,660 --> 01:00:40,160
She didn't like the fact
he called her, "Mum."

778
01:00:41,910 --> 01:00:45,950
I couldn't believe anybody
could be so nasty.

779
01:00:48,580 --> 01:00:51,620
She brought her other son, Bryan,

780
01:00:51,620 --> 01:00:53,870
and he said to 'Ric,
"Are you my brother?"

781
01:00:53,870 --> 01:00:55,660
And she heard that, and she said,

782
01:00:55,660 --> 01:00:58,450
"No, he's not your brother."

783
01:00:58,450 --> 01:01:01,620
I couldn't believe it, she could say
things like that to a child.

784
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,790
I was so angry with her.

785
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:13,370
I just felt rejection.

786
01:01:16,750 --> 01:01:18,870
I didn't talk to anybody.

787
01:01:21,620 --> 01:01:24,790
I was more on my own
than I had ever been.

788
01:01:43,910 --> 01:01:45,700
MUSIC: Presence Of The Lord

789
01:02:07,580 --> 01:02:12,000
Eric felt that he wanted to try
something a bit different,

790
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,750
musically, and asked me
if I'd be interested.

791
01:02:14,750 --> 01:02:16,700
We were essentially
just experimenting.

792
01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:27,830
None of us more than Eric, I think,

793
01:02:27,830 --> 01:02:31,450
he was definitely going through
something.

794
01:02:40,830 --> 01:02:43,290
We were just having fun,

795
01:02:43,290 --> 01:02:45,750
we hadn't got an agenda.

796
01:02:45,750 --> 01:02:49,160
I wrote a song called,
Presence Of The Lord

797
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:52,700
which it starts out with the line,
"I finally found a place to live."

798
01:02:52,700 --> 01:02:55,620
And I was really writing
about Hurtwood.

799
01:02:58,700 --> 01:03:03,700
# I have finally found
a place to live

800
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:11,250
# Just like I never could before

801
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:18,450
# And I know I don't have
much to give

802
01:03:20,750 --> 01:03:23,750
# But I can open any door

803
01:03:27,330 --> 01:03:33,200
# Everybody knows the secret

804
01:03:35,830 --> 01:03:40,870
# Everybody knows the score, yeah

805
01:03:42,660 --> 01:03:47,580
# I have finally found
a place to live

806
01:03:50,790 --> 01:03:53,580
# In the presence of the Lord

807
01:03:55,870 --> 01:03:59,040
# In the presence of the Lord... #

808
01:04:04,830 --> 01:04:08,540
By now, Charlotte
had had enough.

809
01:04:08,540 --> 01:04:11,790
We broke up
and she'd gone back to Paris.

810
01:04:11,790 --> 01:04:16,830
And I had begun on and off
to see this girl, Alice.

811
01:04:16,830 --> 01:04:19,200
She was a great woman.

812
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,750
But she didn't know that
I was obsessed with Pattie.

813
01:04:25,330 --> 01:04:29,910
# Everybody knows the secret

814
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:38,790
# Everybody knows the score
yeah, yeah

815
01:04:41,330 --> 01:04:46,290
# I have finally found
a way to live

816
01:04:47,370 --> 01:04:51,790
# In the presence of the Lord

817
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,120
# In the presence of the Lord... #

818
01:05:03,830 --> 01:05:06,450
CROWD ROARS

819
01:05:11,750 --> 01:05:14,160
One morning, I woke up and

820
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,160
opening the mail,
I found this letter

821
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:18,250
with tiny little handwriting.

822
01:05:20,290 --> 01:05:22,950
And I opened it and it said,

823
01:05:24,370 --> 01:05:25,620
"Dearest L."

824
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,750
The spacing of the words
and the size of the lettering

825
01:05:33,750 --> 01:05:35,870
compared to the size
of the page.

826
01:05:35,870 --> 01:05:39,120
It was quiet,
but it was full of passion.

827
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,790
I almost had a sort of
physical reaction

828
01:05:43,790 --> 01:05:46,750
that somebody could write
something so amazingly

829
01:05:46,750 --> 01:05:49,040
beautiful and yet keeping it quiet.

830
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:52,870
It was bursting with passion.

831
01:05:59,910 --> 01:06:02,500
And later in the early evening,

832
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:05,410
the phone rang
and it was Eric.

833
01:06:05,410 --> 01:06:07,910
He said, "I mean
what I say in the letter."

834
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,830
The very first time I met Eric.

835
01:06:23,830 --> 01:06:26,410
We were opening up
for Blind Faith.

836
01:06:26,410 --> 01:06:29,330
That band broke up,
so I called up Eric

837
01:06:29,330 --> 01:06:31,000
and I just said, "I needed to
get away,

838
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:32,660
"and just to get quiet
for a while."

839
01:06:32,660 --> 01:06:35,790
And he said, "Why don't
you come over?"

840
01:06:35,790 --> 01:06:39,000
We just hung out and played
and watched silly programmes

841
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,250
and stuff, you know?

842
01:06:43,250 --> 01:06:46,080
I was offered a concert
which was a benefit, you know?

843
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:49,040
Wouldn't make any money, really, it
was just a chance

844
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,950
to play somewhere. Bobby and I
thought, "Why don't we do that?"

845
01:06:51,950 --> 01:06:53,330
So we only did
the rhythm section,

846
01:06:53,330 --> 01:06:55,160
but the only rhythm section
we knew that we could

847
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,000
work with was Jim and Carl.
So we got Jim and Carl over.

848
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,370
And I think that was
the only thing we had planned.

849
01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:33,660
It was all about
just playing constantly.

850
01:07:33,660 --> 01:07:36,580
There was times when
we jammed in E for like days.

851
01:07:51,540 --> 01:07:53,080
There was really
no break from it,

852
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:56,250
there was like a constant
musical party.

853
01:07:56,250 --> 01:07:57,910
Everybody came over
to visit.

854
01:08:01,540 --> 01:08:04,250
There was always a lot of cocaine.

855
01:08:04,250 --> 01:08:07,450
Lot of Mandrax, which is kind of
like a quaalude.

856
01:08:07,450 --> 01:08:11,120
LSD, mescaline and a lot
of pot, a lot of hash.

857
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:16,950
I knew something was wrong
with Eric, he wasn't himself,

858
01:08:16,950 --> 01:08:19,620
he was very distracted
all the time.

859
01:08:19,620 --> 01:08:22,500
Whenever I saw Pattie, I saw
him perk up a little bit.

860
01:08:22,500 --> 01:08:24,830
He had a lot of pictures of her
around, like modelling pictures.

861
01:08:24,830 --> 01:08:28,080
I think that was even bigger
than his music,

862
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,080
because he seemed
to be so obsessed.

863
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,330
Eric started to phone me
and said, "Come on.

864
01:08:38,330 --> 01:08:41,000
"You're obviously unhappy,
come away with me."

865
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:42,620
And I'd say, "No, I can't."

866
01:08:42,620 --> 01:08:45,950
You know, I'm married to George and
he'll say, "Look, come on..."

867
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,290
He was fun and awake and alive.

868
01:08:50,290 --> 01:08:53,250
It was the most
wonderful temptation

869
01:08:53,250 --> 01:08:55,250
and I could only compare
him to George

870
01:08:55,250 --> 01:08:57,790
who could be very cold
and would just turn off.

871
01:09:01,700 --> 01:09:04,950
So from time to time,
during the summer,

872
01:09:04,950 --> 01:09:06,790
Eric and I saw each other.

873
01:09:06,790 --> 01:09:10,580
We'd go to little places for
coffee, lunch or even dinner.

874
01:09:21,750 --> 01:09:26,450
George Harrison rang one afternoon
and he asked Eric,

875
01:09:26,450 --> 01:09:29,330
if he and I would like to
play on his first album

876
01:09:29,330 --> 01:09:33,370
that he's gonna do. He had all these
songs, you know?

877
01:09:33,370 --> 01:09:36,580
Eric and I had talked
about who we wanted in the band.

878
01:09:36,580 --> 01:09:39,160
Of course we knew,
we wanted Carl.

879
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:42,370
And Jim Gordon
just storm trooped over

880
01:09:42,370 --> 01:09:43,870
and we were ready to go,
we couldn't wait.

881
01:09:43,870 --> 01:09:46,910
You know, because it was to go
into the studio and record

882
01:09:46,910 --> 01:09:49,000
All Things Must Pass.

883
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:52,000
So, really, we put
the band together

884
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,870
during the All Things
Must Pass sessions.

885
01:09:54,870 --> 01:09:56,370
MUSIC: My Sweet Lord

886
01:09:58,580 --> 01:10:03,120
That was our first recording,
it was All Things Must Pass.

887
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,750
It was the first Dominos
real recording.

888
01:10:05,750 --> 01:10:09,580
But that's when
the drugs were coming in.

889
01:10:09,580 --> 01:10:13,870
This guy would show up
at Abbey Road

890
01:10:13,870 --> 01:10:19,000
and sell you your coke but he'd make
sure that you bought smack, as well.

891
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,700
That was the deal, he wouldn't sell
you one without the other.

892
01:10:21,700 --> 01:10:23,450
# ..Really want to see you... #

893
01:10:25,790 --> 01:10:30,330
Eric says, "You wanna try some of
this? You know, the heroin.

894
01:10:30,330 --> 01:10:33,250
I said, "No, man,
let me just watch you."

895
01:10:35,870 --> 01:10:39,330
He did it.
Just snorted it, you know?

896
01:10:39,330 --> 01:10:41,080
I said, "What does
it feel like?"

897
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:44,700
He said,
"Pink cotton wool surrounding me."

898
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:56,500
Then I went in
to a sort of trance.

899
01:10:56,500 --> 01:11:00,250
It got really mysterious
and I didn't know where I was.

900
01:11:03,290 --> 01:11:06,410
I had been given
a little Persian book.

901
01:11:07,410 --> 01:11:09,620
The love story about
Laila and Majnun.

902
01:11:13,450 --> 01:11:16,410
An absolute tragedy
of doomed love.

903
01:11:19,790 --> 01:11:23,580
The hero ends up alone
in the desert...

904
01:11:26,250 --> 01:11:29,750
..and gives his soul up
to Allah before dying alone.

905
01:11:32,290 --> 01:11:35,950
I saw myself as that.

906
01:11:35,950 --> 01:11:39,790
I saw the whole experience
with Pattie as tragedy.

907
01:11:44,950 --> 01:11:49,120
Things became rather
tricky with George and I.

908
01:11:50,870 --> 01:11:55,040
I met with Eric, we had
a drink in South Kensington,

909
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:56,250
he had a flat there.

910
01:12:03,620 --> 01:12:07,080
Eric said, "You know,
I love you and I want you

911
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:12,040
"to be with me, come away with me.
I just feel that I need you."

912
01:12:22,450 --> 01:12:25,540
We'd been flirting for quite a
while.

913
01:12:25,540 --> 01:12:28,580
But we hadn't gone over the line.

914
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:31,700
But that evening...

915
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:34,450
..we made love.

916
01:12:43,580 --> 01:12:48,540
And then we realised that we were
supposed to be at this party.

917
01:12:52,750 --> 01:12:55,700
Everybody was there.
It was a big party.

918
01:12:55,700 --> 01:12:57,580
I went with Mick.

919
01:12:57,580 --> 01:13:00,950
Paul McCartney was there,
Eric was there.

920
01:13:00,950 --> 01:13:03,200
Pattie came without George.

921
01:13:06,910 --> 01:13:10,660
For the first time, it felt like
there was a chance for us.

922
01:13:12,290 --> 01:13:15,660
Eric said he wanted to talk to me
and we were in the garden.

923
01:13:15,660 --> 01:13:18,450
This was quite late, you know,
because the sun was beginning

924
01:13:18,450 --> 01:13:19,830
to come up.

925
01:13:21,330 --> 01:13:25,910
And George appeared from nowhere
from the mists of the morning.

926
01:13:29,700 --> 01:13:33,120
And I said, "I have
to tell you something,

927
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:34,580
"I'm in love with your wife."

928
01:13:36,790 --> 01:13:39,620
And George looked at
me accusingly and said,

929
01:13:39,620 --> 01:13:42,200
"Well, what are you gonna do,
are you going with him

930
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,290
"or are you coming back with me?"

931
01:13:44,290 --> 01:13:47,700
I felt her detach.

932
01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:50,660
Right there and then,
I knew the deal was off.

933
01:13:52,290 --> 01:13:55,540
So, I said, "George,
of course I'm going with you."

934
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:03,790
There were no extra words,
there was nothing else

935
01:14:03,790 --> 01:14:07,450
to be discussed except
who was I going home with

936
01:14:07,450 --> 01:14:10,250
and I found that
deeply depressing.

937
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,870
Everyone knew that
George was playing around

938
01:14:16,870 --> 01:14:19,660
but she was absolutely
loyal to him.

939
01:14:25,330 --> 01:14:28,330
And I thought,
"What do you want?

940
01:14:28,330 --> 01:14:30,790
"Do you want to see me crawl
across the floor to you?"

941
01:14:30,790 --> 01:14:32,540
What do I have to do?

942
01:14:32,540 --> 01:14:35,830
MUSIC: Thorn Tree In The Garden

943
01:14:35,830 --> 01:14:38,080
# There's a thorn tree
in the garden

944
01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:40,790
# If you know just
what I mean

945
01:14:40,790 --> 01:14:43,500
# And I hate to hurt
your feelings

946
01:14:43,500 --> 01:14:45,870
# But it's not the way
it seems

947
01:14:45,870 --> 01:14:49,290
# Cos I miss her

948
01:14:56,290 --> 01:14:58,580
# She's the only girl
I've cared for

949
01:14:58,580 --> 01:15:01,120
# The only one I've known

950
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:05,910
# And no-one ever shared more
love than we've known

951
01:15:05,910 --> 01:15:07,620
# And I miss her... #

952
01:15:07,620 --> 01:15:13,160
Eric was going through
this major, major trauma.

953
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:16,540
That's why all that music
spoke that way.

954
01:15:16,540 --> 01:15:18,450
It was Eric telling
the truth about

955
01:15:18,450 --> 01:15:20,200
what was going on
with him right then.

956
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:21,620
That was for sure.

957
01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:24,160
# ..And if she winds up
walking the streets

958
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:27,410
# Loving every other
man she meets

959
01:15:27,410 --> 01:15:31,910
# Who'll be the one
to answer why? #

960
01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:35,250
The people in the South
will go out back

961
01:15:35,250 --> 01:15:37,040
and roll around
in the gravel, you know?

962
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,790
About being in love
with your best friend's wife.

963
01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:42,450
Eric did it musically.

964
01:15:42,450 --> 01:15:45,700
He wanted so much
to get Pattie back

965
01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:48,500
and he said
it was time to record.

966
01:15:56,330 --> 01:15:58,700
# ..Maybe someday soon

967
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:05,040
# Somewhere... #

968
01:16:30,870 --> 01:16:33,330
When we got to Miami.

969
01:16:33,330 --> 01:16:35,660
We set up in Thunderbird
motel down there,

970
01:16:35,660 --> 01:16:40,370
with very large bags
of cocaine.

971
01:16:41,870 --> 01:16:44,750
We really didn't have
enough songs for an album.

972
01:16:46,330 --> 01:16:48,040
But we had faith.

973
01:16:49,450 --> 01:16:51,790
Played all day,
played all night.

974
01:16:51,790 --> 01:16:54,540
Get back to hotel,
hole up in Eric's room

975
01:16:54,540 --> 01:16:57,500
or something and playing
that thing.

976
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,370
INTRO PLAYS AND STALLS

977
01:17:01,370 --> 01:17:04,870
Once more, once more,
once more. Sorry.

978
01:17:04,870 --> 01:17:07,200
MUSIC STARTS AGAIN

979
01:17:14,700 --> 01:17:19,950
They started playing
me concepts for songs

980
01:17:19,950 --> 01:17:22,950
that they had not finalised
the arrangements on

981
01:17:22,950 --> 01:17:26,080
and I just kept tape rolling
for a day or two,

982
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,580
because I was learning
the songs as

983
01:17:27,580 --> 01:17:29,450
they were playing them
and the songs

984
01:17:29,450 --> 01:17:31,120
and the arrangements
were evolving.

985
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:34,250
I can't do it. When it
gets a little more complicated

986
01:17:34,250 --> 01:17:36,700
than a simple harmony,
I'm not sure if I could.

987
01:17:36,700 --> 01:17:39,290
What if I started
out and did the first...

988
01:17:39,290 --> 01:17:40,950
And the guitar?

989
01:17:40,950 --> 01:17:43,160
COUGHING

990
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:45,620
MUSIC: Bell Bottom Blues

991
01:18:19,370 --> 01:18:23,540
About two weeks into the sessions,
we hit a brick wall.

992
01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:27,830
We got stuck, really badly stuck.

993
01:18:27,830 --> 01:18:31,870
I'd written part
of the song in England.

994
01:18:31,870 --> 01:18:33,620
For Pattie.

995
01:18:33,620 --> 01:18:37,000
It had this sort of story overlaid
on him about a little Persian book.

996
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,120
Laila and Majnum.

997
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:41,580
And I couldn't finish it.

998
01:18:41,580 --> 01:18:45,160
What will you do
when you get lonely?

999
01:18:46,620 --> 01:18:49,830
# ..And nobody's
waiting by your side

1000
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:54,580
# You've been running
and hiding much too long

1001
01:18:54,580 --> 01:18:58,200
# You know it's just
your foolish pride... #

1002
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:03,620
That was for sure, a tortured soul
singing right there.

1003
01:19:03,620 --> 01:19:07,000
But things were getting
complicated.

1004
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,160
The band really needed
a new direction.

1005
01:19:10,370 --> 01:19:12,290
MUSIC: Dreams

1006
01:19:44,620 --> 01:19:47,700
Tom Dowd took us all
to see the Allman Brothers.

1007
01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:50,750
And I was completely
blown away by this band

1008
01:19:50,750 --> 01:19:53,950
and they just were
incredible musicians.

1009
01:20:05,370 --> 01:20:08,120
Eric had never met Duane.

1010
01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:12,080
He heard about Duane, but Duane and
I were already tight.

1011
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:16,200
It was Duane's show, he ran that
band, he was the band leader.

1012
01:20:37,660 --> 01:20:39,290
That was it.

1013
01:20:39,290 --> 01:20:42,080
After the show, we asked him
to come back and we jammed

1014
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:43,160
all night long.

1015
01:21:13,620 --> 01:21:15,200
MUSIC: Layla

1016
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,250
# I've tried to give
you consolation

1017
01:21:42,950 --> 01:21:45,620
# When your old man
had let you down

1018
01:21:47,290 --> 01:21:51,450
# Like a fool
I fell in love with you

1019
01:21:51,450 --> 01:21:54,080
# Turned my whole
world upside down

1020
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:57,200
# Layla

1021
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:01,410
# Got me on my knees
Layla

1022
01:22:01,410 --> 01:22:05,450
# I'm begging, darling, please
Layla

1023
01:22:05,450 --> 01:22:08,290
# Darling, won't you ease
my worried mind?

1024
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:08,870
Argh, my freaking hands are dead!

1025
01:23:33,290 --> 01:23:35,660
Duane and I just
became inseparable

1026
01:23:35,660 --> 01:23:37,700
for the rest of the time
we were there.

1027
01:23:37,700 --> 01:23:39,700
He was the catalyst
we needed.

1028
01:23:42,500 --> 01:23:45,250
It was all about love songs.

1029
01:23:45,250 --> 01:23:48,080
Ballads with a different tempo.

1030
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:51,370
It was that what
we can't see or touch

1031
01:23:51,370 --> 01:23:54,700
or smell, or taste or feel.

1032
01:23:54,700 --> 01:23:57,830
And, of course,
it was all about Pattie.

1033
01:23:57,830 --> 01:24:01,330
That's why Eric is singing all that
pain and agony and stuff.

1034
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:23,750
I met with Eric
in South Kensington

1035
01:24:23,750 --> 01:24:26,750
he said, "I've got something
for you to hear."

1036
01:24:26,750 --> 01:24:31,580
# Bell bottom blues
you made me cry...#

1037
01:24:34,250 --> 01:24:35,660
He played me this album.

1038
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,620
My gosh, it was so powerful.

1039
01:24:41,620 --> 01:24:44,950
# If I could choose

1040
01:24:44,950 --> 01:24:47,000
# A place to die

1041
01:24:48,870 --> 01:24:50,700
# It would be in your arms

1042
01:24:53,790 --> 01:24:57,620
# Do you want to see me crawl
across the floor to you? #

1043
01:24:57,620 --> 01:25:01,080
I was at bursting point
of emotion.

1044
01:25:02,950 --> 01:25:04,580
I couldn't believe that
I was the inspiration

1045
01:25:04,580 --> 01:25:07,000
for him putting this together.

1046
01:25:08,620 --> 01:25:13,040
I thought when I heard it, that
everyone would know it was about me.

1047
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:16,870
# Give me one more day, please

1048
01:25:16,870 --> 01:25:20,620
# I don't want to fade away... #

1049
01:25:20,620 --> 01:25:23,330
And I didn't want this to happen.

1050
01:25:23,330 --> 01:25:25,370
I couldn't stop listening to it.

1051
01:25:26,790 --> 01:25:29,160
But once the album was finished,

1052
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:31,870
I couldn't wait to get out and go
home.

1053
01:25:31,870 --> 01:25:34,290
MUSIC: Layla

1054
01:25:53,910 --> 01:25:55,370
It didn't work.

1055
01:26:03,540 --> 01:26:05,870
It was all for nothing.

1056
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,040
It was like a...

1057
01:26:12,370 --> 01:26:14,500
..rejection.

1058
01:26:29,500 --> 01:26:33,080
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
is over.

1059
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:36,620
The acid rock musician died
today in a London hospital

1060
01:26:36,620 --> 01:26:39,160
apparently from an overdose
of drugs.

1061
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:42,200
During his short career,
Hendrix flailed his

1062
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:44,910
electric guitar into
some of the most unusual

1063
01:26:44,910 --> 01:26:46,450
sounds of an unusual music.

1064
01:26:56,250 --> 01:26:58,830
I went out into
the garden and cried all day.

1065
01:26:58,830 --> 01:27:02,290
Cos he left me behind.

1066
01:27:02,290 --> 01:27:06,450
And not because he's gone, but
because he hadn't taken me with him.

1067
01:27:06,450 --> 01:27:09,660
Just made me so fucking angry.

1068
01:27:24,700 --> 01:27:26,830
Well, it shattered Eric, you know?

1069
01:27:26,830 --> 01:27:29,750
We had just recorded Little
Wing couple of weeks

1070
01:27:29,750 --> 01:27:32,660
before that.
That was Eric's tribute to Jimi.

1071
01:27:32,660 --> 01:27:35,790
So that had
a huge impact on Eric.

1072
01:27:53,790 --> 01:27:57,160
Morning, spot me on the
Bee Gees and the other one.

1073
01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:00,700
Excellent. You hear the new mix
down there.

1074
01:28:00,700 --> 01:28:03,370
Eric, you're... I'm telling you,
that oughta be a smash hit.

1075
01:28:03,370 --> 01:28:05,250
I'm telling you, it's a mass...

1076
01:28:05,250 --> 01:28:07,000
Dill Besta, Greenbert.

1077
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:10,330
Jerry... All right, yeah.

1078
01:28:10,330 --> 01:28:14,830
Derek and the Dominos,
25 for cash box and 24 for record.

1079
01:28:14,830 --> 01:28:20,370
I considered Eric the most
major artist on our label.

1080
01:28:21,910 --> 01:28:26,450
So I couldn't believe the record
wasn't selling in America.

1081
01:28:28,700 --> 01:28:30,200
I didn't know what to do.

1082
01:28:31,450 --> 01:28:36,750
And he knew, it was because
nobody knew that Derek was Eric.

1083
01:28:36,750 --> 01:28:41,950
So, at that time,
Eric was very vulnerable.

1084
01:28:41,950 --> 01:28:44,620
Why not call the group...
by your name?

1085
01:28:46,580 --> 01:28:51,500
Everybody knows...that Derek
and the Dominos

1086
01:28:51,500 --> 01:28:54,370
are Eric Clapton,
you know what I mean?

1087
01:28:54,370 --> 01:28:58,250
But then, what's the difference?
But, why, why not?

1088
01:28:58,250 --> 01:28:59,450
Well, because...

1089
01:29:02,910 --> 01:29:05,500
I guess it's just more fun
to have a name, you know...

1090
01:29:05,500 --> 01:29:08,620
It's just lighter, you know?

1091
01:29:10,450 --> 01:29:13,830
I read something
about the idea that you wanna

1092
01:29:13,830 --> 01:29:17,870
give up touring, you're not
considering giving it all up?

1093
01:29:17,870 --> 01:29:20,450
I don't think I could
ever stop playing.

1094
01:29:20,450 --> 01:29:24,000
You know, like I could vanish
any time, I could just stop

1095
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,040
making appearances at any time.

1096
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:29,750
I think I could, that's quite easy.

1097
01:29:29,750 --> 01:29:32,120
You know, financially,
if I was secure enough

1098
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:33,870
to able to not have
to go on the road

1099
01:29:33,870 --> 01:29:35,830
which I'm not at the moment,

1100
01:29:35,830 --> 01:29:38,540
I need to go out to make money
to exist.

1101
01:29:38,540 --> 01:29:41,660
If I didn't need to do that,
as long as I had someone

1102
01:29:41,660 --> 01:29:43,870
around me to play with, you know,

1103
01:29:43,870 --> 01:29:46,830
I could probably just
stay at home all the time.

1104
01:31:00,870 --> 01:31:03,950
I feel much
more alone these days.

1105
01:31:03,950 --> 01:31:05,500
You know and if I'm alone, I'll cry.

1106
01:31:05,500 --> 01:31:08,540
You know, literally,
just weep.

1107
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:14,870
What I want most is out.
You know, out of everything.

1108
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:19,040
Because, right now, all I can
see is the suffering of today

1109
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,160
and the suffering of tomorrow.

1110
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:34,700
It comes first.

1111
01:31:34,700 --> 01:31:36,120
Yeah.

1112
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:40,450
It's like surrounding yourself
in pink cotton wool, you know?

1113
01:31:40,450 --> 01:31:42,750
Nothing bothers you,
whatsoever, man.

1114
01:31:42,750 --> 01:31:45,330
Nothing will faze you out,
in any way.

1115
01:31:46,450 --> 01:31:48,750
I also have this death wish.

1116
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:52,700
I don't like life.

1117
01:31:55,290 --> 01:31:57,040
No. And I'm not gonna
live very long.

1118
01:32:05,700 --> 01:32:06,910
Eric went into seclusion.

1119
01:32:09,450 --> 01:32:12,580
He turned and walked away,
without us.

1120
01:32:12,580 --> 01:32:14,660
And he got off
into the heroin.

1121
01:32:16,870 --> 01:32:19,000
And I was gonna stay there
and wait it out.

1122
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,500
But it didn't seem like
it was ever gonna happen.

1123
01:32:24,910 --> 01:32:28,330
I thought it was
the beginning.

1124
01:32:28,330 --> 01:32:30,080
I didn't know it was the end.

1125
01:33:13,790 --> 01:33:15,580
I was living in Wales at the time,

1126
01:33:15,580 --> 01:33:18,450
and I went down to Hurtwood
where he lived.

1127
01:33:21,580 --> 01:33:24,790
I didn't know anything
about heroin addiction.

1128
01:33:24,790 --> 01:33:27,540
I just thought because I was
one of his oldest friends,

1129
01:33:27,540 --> 01:33:29,660
if not his oldest friend.

1130
01:33:29,660 --> 01:33:32,120
There just might be something
we could talk about.

1131
01:33:36,250 --> 01:33:39,830
And I saw him moving past
the window upstairs

1132
01:33:39,830 --> 01:33:41,410
in the house.

1133
01:33:41,410 --> 01:33:43,000
But the house was locked.

1134
01:33:47,410 --> 01:33:50,450
And nobody had responded
to me ringing the bell,

1135
01:33:50,450 --> 01:33:52,790
knocking the door.

1136
01:33:52,790 --> 01:33:55,040
In the end, I figured,
"He doesn't want to see you,"

1137
01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:56,660
and I left him alone.

1138
01:34:19,950 --> 01:34:22,700
I didn't see him
for a long time.

1139
01:34:22,700 --> 01:34:25,750
And I thought to myself,
given his family history

1140
01:34:25,750 --> 01:34:29,200
so far, this is going
to be very difficult for him

1141
01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:30,790
to get through.

1142
01:34:30,790 --> 01:34:33,000
There are things you don't
get over.

1143
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:36,120
You have to find a comfortable
place to put them.

1144
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:39,660
But they're always there.

1145
01:35:03,410 --> 01:35:06,160
With '74 tour, we started
Scandinavia at first,

1146
01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:08,370
just as a warm up.

1147
01:35:08,370 --> 01:35:11,120
He was fragile, I'm not sure
whether he was

1148
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:12,870
really aware of everything
around him.

1149
01:35:12,870 --> 01:35:14,200
What was going on around him.

1150
01:35:18,620 --> 01:35:20,950
I managed to come off heroin.

1151
01:35:20,950 --> 01:35:25,370
But I just went from
one addiction to another.

1152
01:35:25,370 --> 01:35:29,160
And the attitude back then
was that alcohol was OK.

1153
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:34,290
But for me, alcohol was far
more dangerous than heroin.

1154
01:35:34,290 --> 01:35:36,950
Eric Clapton!
CHEERING

1155
01:35:40,250 --> 01:35:42,120
Whether it be
record label forcing him,

1156
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,660
management forcing him, may
have been a little too quick

1157
01:35:44,660 --> 01:35:47,120
going on a huge tour
like that,

1158
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:49,080
and throwing him back into
the public limelight

1159
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:52,910
after being a hermit through the
past four or five years.

1160
01:35:55,660 --> 01:35:56,950
I'll drink to that.

1161
01:36:04,790 --> 01:36:07,790
Eric discovered
Courvoisier and Remy Martin

1162
01:36:07,790 --> 01:36:10,500
and just went into it.

1163
01:36:10,500 --> 01:36:13,330
if he got a hold of something,
he'd hit at it

1164
01:36:13,330 --> 01:36:15,370
until it was gone.

1165
01:36:15,370 --> 01:36:19,410
And before you know it, he'd be
through a whole bottle of cognac

1166
01:36:19,410 --> 01:36:21,290
before lunch time's over.

1167
01:36:21,290 --> 01:36:23,580
It looked like
he wanted to kill himself.

1168
01:36:25,250 --> 01:36:28,040
CHEERING

1169
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,250
SHOUTING

1170
01:36:36,580 --> 01:36:39,040
CHEERING

1171
01:36:41,540 --> 01:36:44,330
BOOING

1172
01:36:47,370 --> 01:36:51,330
VOICEOVER: Some shows, he played 30
minutes  and say, "I'm done."

1173
01:36:51,330 --> 01:36:54,660
You know the contract may
have said an hour and a half.

1174
01:36:54,660 --> 01:36:58,160
But you also have 25,000,
30,000 people that have...

1175
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,450
Get a little upset...

1176
01:37:01,450 --> 01:37:03,370
Sit down and shut up!

1177
01:37:03,370 --> 01:37:05,250
It was still legal
to throw bottles

1178
01:37:05,250 --> 01:37:08,620
and coolers and can openers
and whatever you want

1179
01:37:08,620 --> 01:37:10,750
to throw up there,
you could throw.

1180
01:37:10,750 --> 01:37:13,080
You'll think your life
is in jeopardy.

1181
01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:17,410
Jamie Oldaker!

1182
01:37:17,410 --> 01:37:19,040
Ah...

1183
01:37:20,540 --> 01:37:22,410
Smile, you cunt!

1184
01:37:49,750 --> 01:37:52,830
The first disappointing
confrontation with my mother

1185
01:37:52,830 --> 01:37:54,000
was when I was nine.

1186
01:37:56,290 --> 01:38:00,910
I learned how to recover from
that over the next few years.

1187
01:38:00,910 --> 01:38:03,950
Becoming good at art and
developing a strong interest

1188
01:38:03,950 --> 01:38:05,950
in music.

1189
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:12,290
By then, I'd kind of developed
a personal look.

1190
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:43,830
I had my guitar and
that was my total companion

1191
01:38:43,830 --> 01:38:45,160
in its little case.

1192
01:38:47,910 --> 01:38:50,870
And then there came this
invitation to go to Germany,

1193
01:38:50,870 --> 01:38:54,450
because Pat's husband
had been stationed there

1194
01:38:54,450 --> 01:38:57,330
with the Canadian Air Force.

1195
01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:02,330
He came over to visit us
in Germany

1196
01:39:02,330 --> 01:39:04,870
and he was just so keen
on the guitar.

1197
01:39:04,870 --> 01:39:07,370
And we said, if he wanted
to bring the guitar with him

1198
01:39:07,370 --> 01:39:08,750
to practise, he could.

1199
01:39:08,750 --> 01:39:11,040
Because really and truly,
like everybody else,

1200
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:12,580
we didn't take it seriously.

1201
01:39:13,910 --> 01:39:17,540
We're on an army camp
and I didn't fit.

1202
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:22,790
And it was suggested to me
that I should get a hair cut.

1203
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:27,870
I said, "I'd rather not,
I like my hair the way it is."

1204
01:39:32,870 --> 01:39:37,790
My mother put on this face
like, "Dare to defy me."

1205
01:39:37,790 --> 01:39:40,580
And I thought,
"I don't like you.

1206
01:39:40,580 --> 01:39:42,750
"You don't want me anyway.

1207
01:39:42,750 --> 01:39:45,580
"And now you really
don't want me the way I am."

1208
01:39:51,870 --> 01:39:54,540
Rose said, "Please, do this."

1209
01:39:54,540 --> 01:39:56,250
Just to keep everybody happy.

1210
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,910
So, they gave me a crew cut.

1211
01:40:08,580 --> 01:40:10,120
It made me cry.

1212
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:18,910
And a couple of days later,
my brother came in,

1213
01:40:18,910 --> 01:40:23,000
my half brother and sat
on the guitar

1214
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:24,950
and broke the neck clean in half.

1215
01:40:27,950 --> 01:40:33,950
It was like, everything was
done to demolish my personality

1216
01:40:33,950 --> 01:40:35,790
and make me null and void.

1217
01:40:37,750 --> 01:40:40,080
I was full of hatred,
anger and resentment.

1218
01:40:42,410 --> 01:40:45,500
So, I thought, "OK.

1219
01:40:48,910 --> 01:40:51,080
"That's the last time
I trust anyone."

1220
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:02,790
Things became
very difficult with George

1221
01:41:02,790 --> 01:41:08,500
and I, and we decided
it would be better if we parted.

1222
01:41:08,500 --> 01:41:11,120
I heard that Eric
was on a tour.

1223
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:14,200
So, I went to surprise him.

1224
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:16,410
Our relationship
hadn't been completed.

1225
01:41:16,410 --> 01:41:20,660
There was clearly more to it
than just snatched meetings.

1226
01:41:22,290 --> 01:41:25,290
I hadn't seen her
for all those years.

1227
01:41:25,290 --> 01:41:28,040
Pattie must have known

1228
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,160
she was getting involved
with someone

1229
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:31,830
who was pretty unstable.

1230
01:41:33,870 --> 01:41:38,080
As much as I could love
someone, I loved her.

1231
01:41:39,540 --> 01:41:41,700
I was not just screwed up,
but you know,

1232
01:41:41,700 --> 01:41:43,750
a full-blown addict by then.

1233
01:41:46,700 --> 01:41:52,080
Maybe I never got beyond
just wanting her from a distance.

1234
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:57,500
We would do all sorts
of things together

1235
01:41:57,500 --> 01:42:00,120
and he would say,
he loves me.

1236
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:02,910
But he wanted
to drink all the time

1237
01:42:02,910 --> 01:42:05,660
and it just increased.

1238
01:42:05,660 --> 01:42:08,250
But then when he had
too much to drink

1239
01:42:08,250 --> 01:42:10,580
or became really seriously
unpleasant

1240
01:42:10,580 --> 01:42:12,790
and I felt that he didn't love
me either.

1241
01:42:12,790 --> 01:42:14,910
So, this was really ghastly

1242
01:42:14,910 --> 01:42:16,910
until maybe the next day

1243
01:42:16,910 --> 01:42:19,000
and he'd be loving again.

1244
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,000
He was quite scary,

1245
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:24,370
and he would scream
at me across hotel lobbies.

1246
01:42:26,250 --> 01:42:28,450
He was just listening
to a different drummer

1247
01:42:28,450 --> 01:42:30,000
when he was that drunk.

1248
01:42:34,910 --> 01:42:36,540
Mind if I have a drink?

1249
01:42:36,540 --> 01:42:37,870
No?

1250
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:52,290
Tell you what, you want
to come on stage

1251
01:42:52,290 --> 01:42:55,580
and talk, you want to come up
here and talk about it?

1252
01:42:55,580 --> 01:42:57,790
I'll fucking have you,
I'll tell ya.

1253
01:42:59,120 --> 01:43:01,540
QUIETLY: Fucking rip out a new
one...

1254
01:43:01,540 --> 01:43:04,410
It got to be a point
of wondering,

1255
01:43:04,410 --> 01:43:09,660
you know, each show, what's going to
happen tomorrow night?

1256
01:43:09,660 --> 01:43:12,250
And I used to ask Carl,
"What's up with this guy?

1257
01:43:12,250 --> 01:43:14,080
"They told me
he was a nice guy."

1258
01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:16,580
You know, I have
to lock my doors every night

1259
01:43:16,580 --> 01:43:19,120
and hide from this guy,
cos he's out of his mind.

1260
01:43:55,620 --> 01:43:59,660
When I realised what I said,

1261
01:43:59,660 --> 01:44:03,370
I just was so disgusted
with myself.

1262
01:44:03,370 --> 01:44:05,120
I was so fucking angry.

1263
01:44:07,540 --> 01:44:11,870
And I thought I needed to apologise
to the people I said that to.

1264
01:44:11,870 --> 01:44:13,750
Because it was so shocking
and unforgivable

1265
01:44:13,750 --> 01:44:17,950
and I was so ashamed
of who I was.

1266
01:44:17,950 --> 01:44:22,830
I was becoming not only
chauvinistic, but fascistic, too.

1267
01:44:22,830 --> 01:44:26,040
I was a kind of a semi-racist

1268
01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:27,660
which didn't make sense.

1269
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:32,160
I mean, half of my friends
were black.

1270
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:34,370
I dated black women
and listened to black music

1271
01:44:34,370 --> 01:44:38,500
and championed black music.

1272
01:44:38,500 --> 01:44:41,330
But it didn't matter at all.

1273
01:44:43,620 --> 01:44:46,700
They could have all gone to the wall
as long as I had the bottle.

1274
01:44:46,700 --> 01:44:49,410
I hated everything.

1275
01:44:49,410 --> 01:44:51,200
Everything.

1276
01:44:56,790 --> 01:45:00,120
I thought I had
this dream, you know?

1277
01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:03,410
About the perfect band,
you know?

1278
01:45:03,410 --> 01:45:07,660
I the... And the virtuoso

1279
01:45:07,660 --> 01:45:10,370
of each instrument, you know?
I thought I was a virtuoso.

1280
01:45:10,370 --> 01:45:15,700
My instrument, thought Jack and
Ginger was the virtuoso

1281
01:45:15,700 --> 01:45:19,950
and, uh, we all thought that.

1282
01:45:19,950 --> 01:45:23,580
I'm sad that it actually ever
happen, really.

1283
01:45:23,580 --> 01:45:26,000
Because...

1284
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,540
I mean, I wouldn't want
to change anything

1285
01:45:28,540 --> 01:45:33,290
but probably would've done better
to stay with John Mayall

1286
01:45:33,290 --> 01:45:36,910
and then because, it was that
Cream thing, it was all like...

1287
01:45:39,450 --> 01:45:42,040
It was just aggressive music.

1288
01:45:49,910 --> 01:45:52,330
It's not even worth it, is it?

1289
01:45:52,330 --> 01:45:55,870
Just fucking do it.
She's got her own stash.

1290
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:01,660
Eric was a very sad person.

1291
01:46:01,660 --> 01:46:04,000
Very, very sad.

1292
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:05,410
HE SNORTS

1293
01:46:09,830 --> 01:46:12,700
He was a broken man

1294
01:46:12,700 --> 01:46:15,000
who can't cope,
who can hardly speak.

1295
01:46:16,830 --> 01:46:19,500
He started having seizures

1296
01:46:19,500 --> 01:46:23,750
and then the doctor told me,
unless he stopped drinking,

1297
01:46:23,750 --> 01:46:25,790
he would die.

1298
01:46:54,370 --> 01:46:57,330
The only reason
I didn't commit suicide

1299
01:46:57,330 --> 01:47:00,500
was the fact that I wouldn't be able
to drink any more if I was dead.

1300
01:47:02,410 --> 01:47:06,370
My capacity for the love
of alcohol was boundless.

1301
01:47:07,660 --> 01:47:10,000
So I drank and drank and drank.

1302
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:12,290
Again and again and again.

1303
01:47:53,370 --> 01:47:56,040
When making records
during the drunken period.

1304
01:47:56,040 --> 01:47:58,040
I personally find it difficult
to listen to,

1305
01:47:58,040 --> 01:48:00,580
because I can hear
how drunk I am.

1306
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:07,370
All of these albums have, elements
where it's moved up a notch...

1307
01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:12,160
..and I've been given
the chance to sing and play

1308
01:48:12,160 --> 01:48:14,370
in a way that I hadn't before.

1309
01:48:18,910 --> 01:48:21,540
I went off to Moscow,

1310
01:48:21,540 --> 01:48:24,040
a lot of things took place
while I was there.

1311
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:27,330
I ended up having an affair
with the studio manageress,

1312
01:48:27,330 --> 01:48:31,580
George Martin's
Air Studios in Montserrat.

1313
01:48:31,580 --> 01:48:33,620
A lovely woman called Yvonne,

1314
01:48:33,620 --> 01:48:36,580
very attractive lady,
very funny, very witty.

1315
01:48:36,580 --> 01:48:38,910
And I got a letter from her

1316
01:48:38,910 --> 01:48:41,870
saying she was pregnant
with a daughter

1317
01:48:41,870 --> 01:48:44,830
and that she didn't have
any expectations from me,

1318
01:48:44,830 --> 01:48:48,200
she was going to try and raise the
child in her existing marriage.

1319
01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:52,700
And I knew I just wasn't capable of
having a relationship.

1320
01:48:52,700 --> 01:48:55,700
# When, when... #

1321
01:48:55,700 --> 01:49:00,250
OK, let's just do it more a capella.
One, two , three, four.

1322
01:49:00,250 --> 01:49:03,200
# When I see those big,
brown eyes

1323
01:49:03,200 --> 01:49:05,870
# That's when I take my cue

1324
01:49:05,870 --> 01:49:07,830
# Don't take us but
a few minutes to get

1325
01:49:07,830 --> 01:49:10,830
# A message through

1326
01:49:10,830 --> 01:49:13,160
# I talk to you,
you talk to me

1327
01:49:13,160 --> 01:49:15,620
# I keep talking to
the wrong person

1328
01:49:15,620 --> 01:49:18,410
# It don't take but
a few minutes

1329
01:49:18,410 --> 01:49:22,040
# To get a man's... #
Understand each other.

1330
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:24,950
Am I gonna remember that?

1331
01:49:24,950 --> 01:49:27,750
Well, you wrote it.

1332
01:49:27,750 --> 01:49:31,750
VOICEOVER: I was in absolute
denial about my alcoholism.

1333
01:49:31,750 --> 01:49:35,200
I had gone to the best
treatment centre in the world

1334
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:39,580
but I got into dope again
and alcohol and blow.

1335
01:49:39,580 --> 01:49:42,540
And I was trying
to hide it from everybody.

1336
01:49:42,540 --> 01:49:46,160
Some people say
you have to live the blues

1337
01:49:46,160 --> 01:49:48,540
to sing the blues. During that
period of time in your life

1338
01:49:48,540 --> 01:49:52,200
where you were involved
with drugs and alcohol,

1339
01:49:52,200 --> 01:49:54,370
did you do that
to justify that point of view?

1340
01:49:54,370 --> 01:49:57,160
No, you know, I was
just a party animal.

1341
01:49:57,160 --> 01:49:59,120
A fun-seeking boy.

1342
01:50:01,910 --> 01:50:04,120
And then I was in Milan,
touring and a promoter

1343
01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:06,870
then she introduced
me to Lory Del Santo.

1344
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:11,200
I was just smitten with her

1345
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:14,370
and decided I'm going
to start my life from scratch

1346
01:50:14,370 --> 01:50:17,410
here in Italy without any idea
where it was going to go.

1347
01:50:19,790 --> 01:50:22,120
He was a complete arsehole.

1348
01:50:22,120 --> 01:50:25,200
There was no relationship,
and I knew it wouldn't work.

1349
01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:28,450
And I felt so sad that
he and I split up

1350
01:50:28,450 --> 01:50:30,500
because of that ridiculous idea.

1351
01:50:30,500 --> 01:50:35,330
But he was a sick person
and he obviously believed it.

1352
01:50:35,330 --> 01:50:36,750
We tried to make a go of it.

1353
01:50:36,750 --> 01:50:38,830
But she didn't know
who she was dealing with,

1354
01:50:38,830 --> 01:50:42,750
I was not grounded in any way.

1355
01:50:42,750 --> 01:50:45,410
I said, "Well, look, I don't
think this is working.

1356
01:50:45,410 --> 01:50:48,450
"I want to go back to my wife."

1357
01:50:49,580 --> 01:50:51,870
And she told me,
"Well, that's not really

1358
01:50:51,870 --> 01:50:53,700
"good news,
because I'm pregnant."

1359
01:50:56,410 --> 01:50:58,620
WAILING

1360
01:50:58,620 --> 01:51:00,910
BABY CRIES

1361
01:51:09,540 --> 01:51:11,250
Mmm.

1362
01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:19,000
Conor was the first thing that
happened to me in my entire life

1363
01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:24,950
that really got to my core and told
me, "Time to grow up".

1364
01:51:31,660 --> 01:51:33,450
Strong man.

1365
01:51:33,450 --> 01:51:37,330
I could not fuck around
any longer.

1366
01:51:37,330 --> 01:51:39,620
I could not damage this.

1367
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:43,790
Up.

1368
01:51:46,200 --> 01:51:49,120
Catch that.

1369
01:52:03,870 --> 01:52:05,790
Well, that came about
quite out of the blue.

1370
01:52:05,790 --> 01:52:09,040
I met this young lady
and bang it happened.

1371
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:12,000
It was like the baby
was looking for parents to,

1372
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:14,040
you know, to give it life.

1373
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:17,660
And he's great, it's wonderful.

1374
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:21,620
Yes, just you know,

1375
01:52:21,620 --> 01:52:23,500
grow up happily with my son.

1376
01:52:42,160 --> 01:52:44,450
I got to the place where
I couldn't live without

1377
01:52:44,450 --> 01:52:47,410
a drink and I couldn't
live with it.

1378
01:52:47,410 --> 01:52:50,250
When I tried to stop on my own,
my withdrawals were so hard

1379
01:52:50,250 --> 01:52:54,040
that I had a grand
mal seizure.

1380
01:52:55,950 --> 01:52:58,290
I was on my own
in the unit one day.

1381
01:52:59,540 --> 01:53:03,500
And I got down on my knees
and prayed.

1382
01:53:03,500 --> 01:53:05,700
It was a really clumsy experience,

1383
01:53:05,700 --> 01:53:09,700
but it was born
out of real desperation.

1384
01:53:09,700 --> 01:53:12,580
And I said,
"Just let me have some peace."

1385
01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:32,830
What effect has
fatherhood had on you?

1386
01:53:32,830 --> 01:53:35,660
A very stabilising
effect because you suddenly

1387
01:53:35,660 --> 01:53:37,910
have to stop being
so selfish, you know?

1388
01:53:37,910 --> 01:53:40,500
You have to think more about
the life of someone else.

1389
01:53:40,500 --> 01:53:42,790
It is like a blood thing.

1390
01:53:42,790 --> 01:53:45,500
It's a tie for the rest
of your life.

1391
01:53:45,500 --> 01:53:50,790
And I love him dearly and really
he's made a massive change in me.

1392
01:53:55,700 --> 01:53:58,830
CHEERING

1393
01:54:11,500 --> 01:54:14,950
Lory and Conor
were staying in New York

1394
01:54:14,950 --> 01:54:18,200
in this place called the
Galleria on 57th street.

1395
01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:20,830
And I was in New York, as well.

1396
01:54:20,830 --> 01:54:24,830
So, I took Conor to see
the circus on Long Island.

1397
01:54:31,580 --> 01:54:33,540
We had a great time.

1398
01:54:37,500 --> 01:54:39,620
The following day, I was going
to take Conor for lunch

1399
01:54:39,620 --> 01:54:43,120
maybe on my own. It was about eleven
in the morning.

1400
01:54:43,120 --> 01:54:47,040
I was getting ready to go
up to 57th Street.

1401
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:50,250
Then I got a phone call
from Lory,

1402
01:54:50,250 --> 01:54:52,870
just kind of screaming.

1403
01:54:54,540 --> 01:54:58,500
She said, "He's dead." I thought,
"What's she talking about?"

1404
01:54:58,500 --> 01:55:01,410
She said, "He fell out
the window."

1405
01:55:04,790 --> 01:55:07,540
There couldn't have been a
bigger nightmare.

1406
01:55:07,540 --> 01:55:10,540
Before anyone could stop him,
four-year-old Conor Clapton

1407
01:55:10,540 --> 01:55:13,910
had plunged to his death from the
53rd floor of the Galleria building.

1408
01:55:13,910 --> 01:55:16,790
He made it past his mother
and three other adults

1409
01:55:16,790 --> 01:55:18,830
who were in the apartment
to a window

1410
01:55:18,830 --> 01:55:21,330
that had just been cleaned and
left open.

1411
01:55:21,330 --> 01:55:23,370
There was nothing
to break his fall

1412
01:55:23,370 --> 01:55:25,950
except the roof
of an adjoining building.

1413
01:55:25,950 --> 01:55:27,790
It's just a tragic accident,
that the child apparently

1414
01:55:27,790 --> 01:55:31,250
wandered into...into the bedroom,

1415
01:55:31,250 --> 01:55:33,540
wandered close to the window

1416
01:55:33,540 --> 01:55:38,370
and just by the fact that
the window ledge was low.

1417
01:55:38,370 --> 01:55:42,250
It appears that he just
tragically fell out.

1418
01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:57,950
I felt like I stepped
back out of myself.

1419
01:55:57,950 --> 01:56:01,080
I couldn't grasp it,
I could not grasp it.

1420
01:56:03,200 --> 01:56:07,450
And I went with the body
down to the nearest hospital.

1421
01:56:08,660 --> 01:56:10,870
I went to see him

1422
01:56:10,870 --> 01:56:12,750
and I said goodbye to him.

1423
01:56:15,290 --> 01:56:17,160
And I did lose faith.

1424
01:56:43,410 --> 01:56:45,620
It was horrific.

1425
01:56:45,620 --> 01:56:50,290
I just couldn't think about that
little boy. This little soul.

1426
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:00,620
Eric was a fighter.

1427
01:57:00,620 --> 01:57:03,250
But I know that

1428
01:57:03,250 --> 01:57:06,000
as well as myself,
a lot of his friends

1429
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:07,790
were very concerned about him,

1430
01:57:07,790 --> 01:57:12,000
his sobriety, he was on his own.

1431
01:57:26,080 --> 01:57:28,910
The Italians had gone home
and Hurtwood was quiet

1432
01:57:28,910 --> 01:57:31,040
and it was just me there.

1433
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:31,950
With my thoughts.

1434
01:57:34,410 --> 01:57:36,950
I started opening all my
letters of condolence.

1435
01:57:36,950 --> 01:57:41,040
Thousands and thousands
of them.

1436
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:44,750
I opened one and it was
from Conor.

1437
01:57:47,910 --> 01:57:51,120
And it had been posted
weeks before from Milan.

1438
01:57:54,750 --> 01:57:59,250
And I realised if I can go through
this and stay sober then anyone can.

1439
01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:03,330
And I suddenly became
aware of the fact

1440
01:58:03,330 --> 01:58:07,000
that there was a way to turn
this dreadful tragedy

1441
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:09,160
into something positive.

1442
01:58:09,160 --> 01:58:12,700
That I would consider living
my life from this point on

1443
01:58:12,700 --> 01:58:14,870
to honour the memory
of my son.

1444
01:58:22,330 --> 01:58:25,540
I got hold of the little Spanish
guitar that I had lying around.

1445
01:58:25,540 --> 01:58:30,910
And I had it with me the whole time.
From the minute I woke up.

1446
01:58:30,910 --> 01:58:35,370
And for the rest of that year,
I just played and played

1447
01:58:35,370 --> 01:58:38,410
to stop from facing
this situation.

1448
01:58:45,750 --> 01:58:48,660
MUSIC: Tears In Heaven

1449
01:59:12,910 --> 01:59:17,250
# Would you know my name?

1450
01:59:19,370 --> 01:59:23,200
# If I saw you in Heaven

1451
01:59:24,790 --> 01:59:29,790
# Would it be the same?

1452
01:59:31,870 --> 01:59:35,000
# If I saw you in Heaven

1453
01:59:38,450 --> 01:59:41,790
# I must be strong

1454
01:59:44,700 --> 01:59:48,290
# And carry on

1455
01:59:48,290 --> 01:59:53,250
# Cos I know I don't belong #

1456
01:59:54,790 --> 01:59:57,660
# Here in Heaven

1457
02:00:08,910 --> 02:00:12,040
# Time can bring you down

1458
02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:15,620
# Time can bend your knees

1459
02:00:21,160 --> 02:00:24,330
# Time can break your heart

1460
02:00:24,330 --> 02:00:30,450
# Have you begging please,
begging please... #

1461
02:00:35,620 --> 02:00:37,410
VOICEOVER: Music saved me.

1462
02:00:39,910 --> 02:00:42,290
Just as it had when
I was a boy of nine.

1463
02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:45,700
It took the pain away.

1464
02:00:47,830 --> 02:00:51,830
And I wrote these songs
for myself

1465
02:00:51,830 --> 02:00:54,330
because I was feeling
terrible inside.

1466
02:00:58,200 --> 02:01:01,040
# ..Beyond the door

1467
02:01:04,540 --> 02:01:07,040
# There's peace I'm sure

1468
02:01:07,040 --> 02:01:12,750
# And I know there'll be
no more

1469
02:01:14,160 --> 02:01:16,620
# Tears in Heaven. #

1470
02:01:16,620 --> 02:01:21,040
And the Grammy goes to
Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton.

1471
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:24,200
APPLAUSE

1472
02:01:24,200 --> 02:01:26,750
And the song of the year is,

1473
02:01:26,750 --> 02:01:28,830
Eric Clapton and Will Jennings,

1474
02:01:28,830 --> 02:01:31,160
songwriters, for Tears in Heaven.
CHEERING

1475
02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:33,290
And the album of the year is...

1476
02:01:33,290 --> 02:01:35,410
# Cos I know... #

1477
02:01:35,410 --> 02:01:37,290
..Unplugged, Eric Clapton.

1478
02:01:37,290 --> 02:01:39,450
APPLAUSE

1479
02:01:39,450 --> 02:01:43,620
VOICEOVER: As much as I'm proud of
what I've achieved, musically,

1480
02:01:43,620 --> 02:01:45,700
it's all dust, really.

1481
02:01:45,700 --> 02:01:48,580
At some point, there will
be people who have no idea

1482
02:01:48,580 --> 02:01:52,750
what I did and who I am and I'm
quite comfortable about that.

1483
02:01:52,750 --> 02:01:55,790
CHEERING

1484
02:01:55,790 --> 02:01:57,410
Thank you.

1485
02:02:00,160 --> 02:02:03,200
Finally, me and my daughter, Ruth,

1486
02:02:03,200 --> 02:02:08,410
were able to begin our own
relationship, which was wonderful.

1487
02:02:08,410 --> 02:02:10,660
And it took me to a place

1488
02:02:10,660 --> 02:02:13,410
where I was able to have
a great relationship with Ruth

1489
02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:16,580
and also become available

1490
02:02:16,580 --> 02:02:19,040
to have a relationship
with another human being,

1491
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:21,700
Now see that's, that was the
first time I felt like that

1492
02:02:21,700 --> 02:02:23,620
in my entire life.

1493
02:02:28,370 --> 02:02:30,290
I have a brochure I'm going to show

1494
02:02:30,290 --> 02:02:33,580
you quickly called
Crossroads Centre at Antigua.

1495
02:02:33,580 --> 02:02:36,080
But this... This is an Eric Clapton
project, what is it?

1496
02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:38,500
For the last three years,
I've been trying to start

1497
02:02:38,500 --> 02:02:41,700
a treatment centre in Antigua.
For addiction?

1498
02:02:41,700 --> 02:02:43,790
For addiction to drugs
and alcohol, yeah.

1499
02:02:43,790 --> 02:02:47,330
So are you doing it for people who
live on the island?

1500
02:02:47,330 --> 02:02:49,450
I'm primarily doing it
for people that have no money.

1501
02:02:49,450 --> 02:02:51,040
That need treatment.

1502
02:02:51,040 --> 02:02:53,910
There's 100 guitars here,

1503
02:02:53,910 --> 02:02:59,160
some of them were with me through
some really extreme times.

1504
02:02:59,160 --> 02:03:01,830
But I want them to raise a lot
of money for the foundation

1505
02:03:01,830 --> 02:03:04,700
and to carry the message
of the centre.

1506
02:03:04,700 --> 02:03:07,330
500,000 I hear.

1507
02:03:07,330 --> 02:03:10,620
600,000 I'm offered.
700,000, 800,000.

1508
02:03:10,620 --> 02:03:13,160
$850,000.

1509
02:03:13,160 --> 02:03:14,450
And sold.

1510
02:03:16,620 --> 02:03:18,950
Music has given me a great life.

1511
02:03:18,950 --> 02:03:22,540
That's never betrayed me,
it's never gonna let me down.

1512
02:03:22,540 --> 02:03:25,580
But if it doesn't have
the same value as knowing

1513
02:03:25,580 --> 02:03:28,620
that there are people out
there that I've helped

1514
02:03:28,620 --> 02:03:31,330
get sober through
the treatment centre.

1515
02:03:34,200 --> 02:03:36,580
CHEERING

1516
02:03:38,910 --> 02:03:41,580
Let's bring on Hubert Sumlin.

1517
02:03:41,580 --> 02:03:43,410
CHEERING

1518
02:03:43,410 --> 02:03:44,830
Please welcome Buddy Guy.

1519
02:03:44,830 --> 02:03:48,330
CHEERING

1520
02:03:48,330 --> 02:03:52,080
Put your hands together for the king
of the blues. BB King.

1521
02:03:52,080 --> 02:03:56,000
CHEERING

1522
02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:59,040
If he hadn't heard
and liked the blues.

1523
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:03,330
He could just about about retiring
from the building trade now.

1524
02:04:03,330 --> 02:04:06,080
Having spent his life,
laying tiles like his father.

1525
02:04:08,660 --> 02:04:12,000
If you guide yourself
into the worst aspects

1526
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:14,200
of life which he undoubtedly did.

1527
02:04:14,200 --> 02:04:16,040
Nobody pushed him down to the depth

1528
02:04:16,040 --> 02:04:19,000
that he felt he reached
at several points.

1529
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:20,450
And nobody has got him out.

1530
02:04:24,790 --> 02:04:28,040
Now, I mean, that is a very
powerful personality.

1531
02:04:29,540 --> 02:04:34,870
It doesn't necessarily
have to show itself in company.

1532
02:04:34,870 --> 02:04:37,370
But it must be there
for him to have survived.

1533
02:04:40,200 --> 02:04:43,750
And then I met Melia
and fell in love.

1534
02:04:43,750 --> 02:04:46,160
She's everything I ever wanted.

1535
02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:47,910
She's my soul-mate.

1536
02:04:47,910 --> 02:04:50,040
She's a beautiful woman,
she's a great friend.

1537
02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:53,000
And she's a fantastic mother.

1538
02:04:54,080 --> 02:04:56,040
What more could a man ever want?

1539
02:04:58,410 --> 02:05:01,700
Hello, this is Sophie.

1540
02:05:01,700 --> 02:05:05,000
Here she is. And this is Daddy.

1541
02:05:07,500 --> 02:05:10,160
And this is Ella.

1542
02:05:11,750 --> 02:05:14,910
Here is Mommy.

1543
02:05:14,910 --> 02:05:16,410
And here is me.

1544
02:05:16,410 --> 02:05:17,910
Hi.

1545
02:05:17,910 --> 02:05:20,450
THEY GIGGLE

1546
02:05:20,450 --> 02:05:24,160
ALL SCREAM

1547
02:05:26,200 --> 02:05:28,830
VOICEOVER: It's everything I did
and all the mistakes

1548
02:05:28,830 --> 02:05:31,120
I made and everything
that brought me here.

1549
02:05:31,120 --> 02:05:34,080
And it couldn't me
much better, really.

1550
02:05:37,330 --> 02:05:40,870
I finally found the family
I always wanted.

1551
02:05:40,870 --> 02:05:43,120
And always needed.

1552
02:05:43,120 --> 02:05:46,580
And now here they are,
and I'm one of them.

1553
02:05:46,580 --> 02:05:48,830
My life is completely full.

1554
02:05:50,370 --> 02:05:54,450
And I would like to say a toast
to the Boss.

1555
02:05:57,410 --> 02:06:00,870
Give me a little talking music, will
you? Robert, please.

1556
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:04,080
Keep it down, keep it down.

1557
02:06:04,080 --> 02:06:07,040
Ladies and gentlemen,
for you, I know that you know

1558
02:06:07,040 --> 02:06:10,870
that Eric is a great artist.

1559
02:06:10,870 --> 02:06:15,500
He flew all the way
to California to make my first CD.

1560
02:06:15,500 --> 02:06:18,750
Not only did he do that,
he's done so many things

1561
02:06:18,750 --> 02:06:21,950
for a lot of us,
including this guy.

1562
02:06:21,950 --> 02:06:25,660
So I'd like you to know...

1563
02:06:25,660 --> 02:06:29,120
I'm gonna shut up in a minute,
but I'd like you to know.

1564
02:06:29,120 --> 02:06:31,040
That I've been around
the world,

1565
02:06:31,040 --> 02:06:33,330
I've played 90 different
countries around the world,

1566
02:06:33,330 --> 02:06:35,450
and I've met many people,
kings and queens.

1567
02:06:35,450 --> 02:06:42,080
But I've never met a better
man, a more gracious man

1568
02:06:42,080 --> 02:06:44,950
than my friend, I like to call
him my friend, Eric Clapton.

1569
02:06:44,950 --> 02:06:48,450
CROWD ROARS

1570
02:06:48,450 --> 02:06:50,450
So, I say to all of you...

1571
02:06:54,750 --> 02:06:56,750
May I live forever...

1572
02:07:03,120 --> 02:07:07,870
But may you live
for ever and a day.

1573
02:07:07,870 --> 02:07:11,370
Cos I'd hate to be here
when you pass away.

1574
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:16,830
And when they lay me out
to rest...

1575
02:07:16,830 --> 02:07:19,370
As I mentioned, I'm 81 now.

1576
02:07:19,370 --> 02:07:22,700
When they lay me out
to rest, may the last voices

1577
02:07:22,700 --> 02:07:25,580
I hear be yours...
CHEERING

1578
02:07:25,580 --> 02:07:28,660
..saying while we was alive
we was friends.

1579
02:07:28,660 --> 02:07:30,910
CHEERING

1580
02:07:40,200 --> 02:07:41,580
MUSIC: Mainline Florida

1581
02:07:56,290 --> 02:08:00,080
# My heart was leaping in the sun

1582
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:04,330
# My friends all say
that you're the one

1583
02:08:04,330 --> 02:08:08,120
# Let me get this
one thing very clear

1584
02:08:08,120 --> 02:08:12,750
# There ain't enough
going on down here

1585
02:08:12,750 --> 02:08:17,000
# Mainline Florida, oh, say

1586
02:08:20,830 --> 02:08:26,700
# Mainline Florida, OK

1587
02:08:37,250 --> 02:08:41,290
# Her arms were open, open wide

1588
02:08:41,290 --> 02:08:45,200
# Her invitation's a changing tide

1589
02:08:45,200 --> 02:08:50,120
# I could remember not long ago

1590
02:08:50,120 --> 02:08:54,870
# We took a cruise down on Hotel Row

1591
02:08:54,870 --> 02:08:59,620
# Mainline Florida, oh, say

1592
02:09:02,750 --> 02:09:08,660
# Mainline Florida, OK... #