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Cream: "I'm not a great guitarist," insists Eric Clapton

Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, August 1966

I CAME face-to-face with the guy who is acknowledged to be the god of British blues guitar in his own small heaven — the top Hat of an apartment block high above Notting Hill Gate.

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