Eric Clapton: Return Of The Reluctant Hero
John Pidgeon, Creem, April 1978
THERE WAS once a movie actor who, having made his name as a heavy, took to playing the romantic lead. But no matter how often he wore a white hat or rode into the sunset, he was always the heavy.
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