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Eric Clapton: Blues God Without An Axe To Grind

Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, 2 February 1991

WHEN THAT crazed blues fanatic scrawled the words "CLAPTON IS GOD" on a London wall in 1966, he ushered in the cult of the guitar hero which has dominated Anglo-American rock music ever since.

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