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Hi, this is Eric Clapton here.

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I just want to uh...

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Express my sadness

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and uh...

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To say, thank you,

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to my dear friend B.B. 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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B.B King Live at the Regal.

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Which is where it all really
started for me

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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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[ 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,

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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

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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.

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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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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

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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 kiddie's program.

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And I thought, aw, man,

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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

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and play along

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to my heart's content.

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Non-stop.

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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, B.B King,

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Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

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[Mojo Working
playing]

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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

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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
to find another person.

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We used to meet up
at the Marquee Club

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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

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that I was gonna have.

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In those days,
there was very little interest

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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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[ 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.

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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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Ten,

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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

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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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♪ 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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[ I Wish You Would
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♪ Oh! ♪

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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
to see Yardbirds

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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

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or getting on TV
or having a hit.

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[ For Your Love
playing]

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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

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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

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for
For Your Love.

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And then immediately left.

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We had this massive record
suddenly

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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.

258
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I was living on my own so,
it was a one to one thing.

259
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And we just talked.

260
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I wanted his advice
on what to do

261
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because I liked playing the
guitar and I love blues music.

262
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But I thought I was gonna
give up everything.

263
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And I stayed with him
for about two weeks

264
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and watched him carve.

265
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We both have pretty
dysfunctional families.

266
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And we would sort of sit
and talk about these things.

267
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And I thought his interest in
his music was so obsessive

268
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that he didn't really have
a choice about what he was

269
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doing with his time.

270
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He just had to go where
it was best to go.

271
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I'm sure it's been with him
all his life.

272
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And while I was there
someone tracked me down.

273
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And it was John Mayall.

274
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[indistinct
television chatter]

275
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Thanks, Bu.
And before we run out of time,

276
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I think it's about time
we learn to do

277
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the Crocodile Walk,

278
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with Johnny Mayall
and the Bluesbreakers.

279
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♪ See that crocodile walk ♪

280
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♪ Hey, and he lookin' my way ♪

281
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♪ Any minute today ♪

282
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♪He got a long way to walk ♪

283
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♪ Lookin' for a home ♪

284
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♪Yeah, I wanna see you smile ♪

285
00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:04,000
♪ And, hey, hey, crocodile ♪

286
00:20:13,542 --> 00:20:15,291
♪ Yeah, crocodile
now tell me ♪

287
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♪ He might settle down
now, baby ♪

288
00:20:26,375 --> 00:20:28,083
♪Ooh, yeah
♪

289
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♪Hey, hey, crocodile ♪

290
00:20:34,542 --> 00:20:38,250
When it came to blues
there was nobody like him.

291
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Eric was that special.

292
00:20:40,542 --> 00:20:43,875
He knew the history of it.
The background of it.

293
00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:46,583
And he had the emotional
feel for it.

294
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And the technique
to express it.

295
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He was given this freedom

296
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to let loose.

297
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♪ Disappearing in the dark ♪

298
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Eric,
how much do you think that

299
00:21:04,208 --> 00:21:07,917
his influence helped blues
based bands?

300
00:21:07,917 --> 00:21:09,750
If you're gonna
take it back to the roots

301
00:21:09,750 --> 00:21:11,917
it's between him and Alexis
Korner and they're the ones

302
00:21:11,917 --> 00:21:14,917
that started actually
physically playing it.

303
00:21:14,917 --> 00:21:15,750
And there were lots of people

304
00:21:15,750 --> 00:21:17,417
that collected
old blues records

305
00:21:17,417 --> 00:21:18,458
but that didn't play.

306
00:21:18,458 --> 00:21:21,875
But he worked in the clubs
playing it.

307
00:21:21,875 --> 00:21:24,041
I mean, he's responsible for
the whole thing, really.

308
00:21:27,291 --> 00:21:29,291
The minute I got
into that band

309
00:21:29,291 --> 00:21:31,291
I joined a working schedule
I'd never seen before.

310
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We worked seven nights a week.

311
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We played every night.

312
00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:39,875
The Twisted Wheel
in Manchester.

313
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The Mojo in Sheffield.

314
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The Boathouse in Nottingham.

315
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The Club a'Gogo in Newcastle.

316
00:21:47,458 --> 00:21:51,333
I still had no idea
how you talk to girls.

317
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I was very shy.

318
00:21:52,667 --> 00:21:56,375
And then suddenly I was
dating, picking up girls.

319
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It was like a girl
in every gig.

320
00:22:00,875 --> 00:22:03,125
Eric lived in Ripley

321
00:22:03,125 --> 00:22:04,375
and he didn't have transport.

322
00:22:04,375 --> 00:22:05,291
So it became a matter of
convenience

323
00:22:05,291 --> 00:22:07,125
that he'd stay at our house.

324
00:22:07,125 --> 00:22:09,542
There was a spare room.

325
00:22:09,542 --> 00:22:11,375
So he moved in there.

326
00:22:13,625 --> 00:22:15,041
I had the family, you know,

327
00:22:15,041 --> 00:22:17,000
so he was living in
the family house.

328
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,208
So it was very suburban.

329
00:22:19,208 --> 00:22:22,542
The regular life with the mum
and dad and three children.

330
00:22:22,542 --> 00:22:24,250
At night we did the gigs.

331
00:22:25,583 --> 00:22:26,834
He was very cool.

332
00:22:26,834 --> 00:22:28,667
He had an incredible
collection of records

333
00:22:28,667 --> 00:22:32,458
that I listened to all day
long. For about a year,

334
00:22:32,458 --> 00:22:34,166
I just would put on records
and play along with them.

335
00:22:34,166 --> 00:22:36,625
and I went at it.

336
00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:44,834
A lot of my influences around
that time

337
00:22:44,834 --> 00:22:48,458
weren't just guitar players,
they were other singers

338
00:22:49,208 --> 00:22:51,375
and also Indian music.

339
00:22:51,375 --> 00:22:55,500
I listened to Bismillah Khan
a lot.

340
00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,041
I wanted my guitar to sound
like his reed instrument.

341
00:23:28,583 --> 00:23:31,041
One of the
biggest influences

342
00:23:31,041 --> 00:23:33,333
on what I wanted to achieve

343
00:23:33,333 --> 00:23:35,959
with a guitar
was Little Walter.

344
00:23:35,959 --> 00:23:37,417
The sound he made with
the harmonica,

345
00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:40,458
playing through an amplifier.

346
00:23:40,458 --> 00:23:42,792
And it was thick and fat.

347
00:23:42,792 --> 00:23:44,208
Very melodic.

348
00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:49,291
I had been wandering into
music shops

349
00:23:49,291 --> 00:23:50,208
in the west end of London.

350
00:23:50,208 --> 00:23:53,166
And plugging a guitar in.

351
00:23:53,166 --> 00:23:54,583
I'd try that guitar with
that amp.

352
00:23:54,583 --> 00:23:58,291
And I found this amp
way out in West London

353
00:23:58,291 --> 00:24:00,417
and it was perfect.

354
00:24:00,417 --> 00:24:02,000
It was an absolutely
perfect sound.

355
00:24:50,625 --> 00:24:54,000
He showed up with
that guitar and that amp

356
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,667
and immediately people started
to idolise what he was doing.

357
00:25:00,792 --> 00:25:03,917
And to certain extent that's
what bugged him the most.

358
00:25:03,917 --> 00:25:07,291
He didn't want to be
looked at and inspected.

359
00:25:07,291 --> 00:25:09,333
He just wanted to play the way
he wanted to play

360
00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:11,542
and leave him alone.

361
00:25:11,542 --> 00:25:13,500
[ Steppin' Out
continues]

362
00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:22,625
Now, from the time

363
00:25:22,625 --> 00:25:23,834
that you left The Yardbirds

364
00:25:23,834 --> 00:25:26,667
and joined up with John Mayall
and company,

365
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,709
your head seemed to change
tremendously as far as

366
00:25:30,709 --> 00:25:32,667
your music was concerned.

367
00:25:32,667 --> 00:25:33,959
What kind of things were
happening to your head then?

368
00:25:33,959 --> 00:25:37,625
Well, I really didn't change
as much as you probably think

369
00:25:37,625 --> 00:25:40,166
because it's not really,

370
00:25:40,166 --> 00:25:41,667
you know,
an individual change.

371
00:25:41,667 --> 00:25:43,792
It was just put into
a different context.

372
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:44,667
So, I mean, the things
that I was doing

373
00:25:44,667 --> 00:25:47,041
reflected differently,
you know.

374
00:25:47,041 --> 00:25:48,333
I mean the...

375
00:25:48,333 --> 00:25:50,667
The context of The Yardbirds
as opposed to John Mayall

376
00:25:50,667 --> 00:25:53,250
is totally different.
One is pop and one is...

377
00:25:53,250 --> 00:25:56,375
Was then even more earthier
blues than it is now.

378
00:25:56,375 --> 00:25:58,375
Stuff you played then.

379
00:25:58,375 --> 00:26:00,667
And you know, I just played
the same things

380
00:26:00,667 --> 00:26:03,208
but they just
sounded different.

381
00:26:04,291 --> 00:26:05,792
Take three.

382
00:26:15,583 --> 00:26:17,834
We had been
on the road for long enough

383
00:26:17,834 --> 00:26:20,583
to go in
and just play our set.

384
00:26:20,583 --> 00:26:22,250
But at that period
there were technicians

385
00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:24,000
doing the recording

386
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,583
that just came up to your amp
with a microphone,

387
00:26:27,583 --> 00:26:30,500
stuck it two inches away from
the front of the amplifier.

388
00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:35,166
It seemed to me that
if you wanted to get

389
00:26:35,166 --> 00:26:37,625
the atmosphere that we were
getting in the clubs,

390
00:26:37,625 --> 00:26:40,375
you needed for it to sound
like you were in the audience.

391
00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:43,542
Ten feet away.
Not three inches.

392
00:26:46,041 --> 00:26:47,792
And so when the guy did that

393
00:26:47,792 --> 00:26:51,250
on that day that we went in
to record,

394
00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:53,625
I said, "Excuse me, I don't
want it there."

395
00:26:53,625 --> 00:26:55,500
"Put it over there."

396
00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:58,375
He said, " Well, you're making
our job really difficult."

397
00:26:58,375 --> 00:27:02,709
And I said, "I don't care,
that's the way I want it."

398
00:27:09,125 --> 00:27:12,750
With Eric playing at the
sort of volume he was playing,

399
00:27:12,750 --> 00:27:14,625
there was no way that
anyone could deal with it.

400
00:27:14,625 --> 00:27:16,667
They didn't know what to do.
So we had to find a way

401
00:27:16,667 --> 00:27:18,792
to deal with it.

402
00:27:18,792 --> 00:27:21,917
That was the most
exciting part of the project

403
00:27:21,917 --> 00:27:24,959
because when we found how
to do it, we had the sound.

404
00:27:26,959 --> 00:27:27,792
[ All Your Love
playing]

405
00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:24,792
That changed
everything.

406
00:28:24,792 --> 00:28:27,500
Before Eric, guitar playing
in England had been

407
00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:29,709
Hank Marvin and The Shadows.

408
00:28:29,709 --> 00:28:32,667
Very, very simple,
not much technique.

409
00:28:34,458 --> 00:28:37,583
Suddenly we heard something
that was completely different.

410
00:28:37,583 --> 00:28:40,583
The record sounded unlike
anything that any of us

411
00:28:40,583 --> 00:28:42,875
had ever heard before, it was
completely revolutionary.

412
00:28:49,291 --> 00:28:51,917
Eric, now that
blues have started to emerge

413
00:28:51,917 --> 00:28:53,667
as a really very
powerful force

414
00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:55,208
on the pop scene.

415
00:28:55,208 --> 00:28:57,000
And everyone's latching
on to it even though

416
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,709
they don't necessarily
understand the music.

417
00:28:58,709 --> 00:29:01,417
Now, do you think
this is a bad thing?

418
00:29:01,417 --> 00:29:04,542
No, because, you see,
what will happen is that

419
00:29:04,542 --> 00:29:06,542
after a long time, they
will become

420
00:29:06,542 --> 00:29:09,041
so well educated musically

421
00:29:09,041 --> 00:29:12,500
that they'll be able to
dig spades singing the blues

422
00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:15,709
instead of having to take
watered down imitations.

423
00:29:15,709 --> 00:29:16,792
They won't have
to accept that any more

424
00:29:16,792 --> 00:29:18,917
because they'll be
free thinking enough

425
00:29:18,917 --> 00:29:21,917
to be able to look
at a coloured man and dig it

426
00:29:21,917 --> 00:29:25,375
without having
any hang ups. You know?

427
00:29:25,375 --> 00:29:27,125
And then, you know,

428
00:29:27,125 --> 00:29:28,583
all the white guys
are gonna have to find

429
00:29:28,583 --> 00:29:29,583
something their own to play,
that is good enough

430
00:29:29,583 --> 00:29:31,041
to stand up to it because

431
00:29:31,041 --> 00:29:34,583
they won't be accepted,
they'll be rejected.

432
00:29:34,583 --> 00:29:35,500
There won't be any white
blues bands,

433
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,333
it couldn't happen.

434
00:29:38,417 --> 00:29:41,083
What is it you think
about the music that draws

435
00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:42,333
young white kids
to it?

436
00:29:42,333 --> 00:29:44,166
Now, you mentioned
the fact that, uh,

437
00:29:44,166 --> 00:29:44,959
groups like
The Rolling Stones

438
00:29:44,959 --> 00:29:46,917
have turned them on
to the music.

439
00:29:46,917 --> 00:29:49,333
I think white kids really
love a beautiful sound.

440
00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:51,709
That deep tone.

441
00:29:51,709 --> 00:29:53,583
Then even white kids
sing the blues.

442
00:29:53,583 --> 00:29:56,291
They can play more blues than
I can ever dream of playing.

443
00:29:56,291 --> 00:29:59,125
But you know, they'll never be
able to vocal like me,

444
00:29:59,125 --> 00:30:00,208
you know that.

445
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,875
And I'm singing that
out to the church

446
00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:03,875
and got that big tone,
I guess that's what

447
00:30:03,875 --> 00:30:07,041
the white kids come
to see me for often.

448
00:30:07,041 --> 00:30:11,792
Does it have something
to do with the feeling that...

449
00:30:11,792 --> 00:30:13,834
That's what I'm saying,
that tone is the feeling,

450
00:30:13,834 --> 00:30:15,250
you got the feeling in there,
for those kids.

451
00:30:15,250 --> 00:30:17,375
And there's no way
you can counterfeit that?

452
00:30:17,375 --> 00:30:18,667
You can't counterfeit that.

453
00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:20,291
You mean,
in other words...

454
00:30:20,291 --> 00:30:22,792
The young kids can learn
to play a guitar that way

455
00:30:22,792 --> 00:30:24,000
but they can't learn
to sing that way?

456
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,291
Like me?

457
00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:26,709
-Yeah.

458
00:30:26,709 --> 00:30:27,709
Oh, no.

459
00:30:27,709 --> 00:30:29,709
-You know better than that.

460
00:30:29,709 --> 00:30:32,291
They ain't got enough soul

461
00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:33,834
and they didn't have
enough hard times.

462
00:30:37,333 --> 00:30:39,542
I came around
to Jones' house one day

463
00:30:39,542 --> 00:30:40,500
and he'd been out in
the garden reading

464
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,417
The Melody Maker
and he was furious.

465
00:30:43,417 --> 00:30:45,667
And he said,
"Eric's rehearsing with a band

466
00:30:45,667 --> 00:30:48,166
"in some church."

467
00:30:48,166 --> 00:30:50,333
And I said, "Oh, is he?"

468
00:30:50,333 --> 00:30:52,208
All of a sudden,
there it was.

469
00:30:52,208 --> 00:30:54,625
There was this new group
that's gonna be

470
00:30:54,625 --> 00:30:56,667
making its debut somewhere
and that was it.

471
00:30:56,667 --> 00:30:58,875
It was very sudden.

472
00:30:59,625 --> 00:31:01,291
Total lunatic.

473
00:31:01,291 --> 00:31:02,792
Just said he's gonna quit.

474
00:31:03,709 --> 00:31:05,125
[I Feel Free
playing]

475
00:31:10,208 --> 00:31:11,625
♪ I feel free ♪

476
00:31:12,625 --> 00:31:13,125
♪ I feel free ♪

477
00:31:18,375 --> 00:31:21,041
I wanted to be
a blues trio.

478
00:31:21,041 --> 00:31:22,125
Fusing jazz and rock.

479
00:31:24,083 --> 00:31:25,208
It was just a thing where

480
00:31:25,208 --> 00:31:28,417
the three of us liked
one another's playing

481
00:31:28,417 --> 00:31:30,291
and we decided to do it.

482
00:31:30,291 --> 00:31:31,375
♪ I feel free ♪

483
00:31:32,417 --> 00:31:33,625
♪ I feel free ♪

484
00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:40,166
♪ Feel when I dance with you ♪

485
00:31:41,208 --> 00:31:44,166
♪ We move like the sea ♪

486
00:31:46,375 --> 00:31:50,125
♪ You, you're all
I want to know ♪

487
00:31:51,834 --> 00:31:56,166
♪ I feel free ♪

488
00:31:57,291 --> 00:32:01,417
♪ I feel free ♪

489
00:32:02,583 --> 00:32:07,750
♪ I feel free ♪

490
00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:10,750
♪ I can walk down the street
there's no one there ♪

491
00:32:10,750 --> 00:32:13,083
♪ Though the pavements
are one huge crowd ♪

492
00:32:13,083 --> 00:32:15,208
♪ I can drive down the road
my eyes don't see ♪

493
00:32:15,208 --> 00:32:18,041
♪ Though my mind
wants to cry out loud ♪

494
00:32:19,333 --> 00:32:23,208
♪ I ♪

495
00:32:24,583 --> 00:32:28,125
♪ I ♪

496
00:32:28,542 --> 00:32:33,875
♪ I ♪

497
00:32:34,917 --> 00:32:39,083
♪ I feel free ♪

498
00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:44,709
♪ I feel free ♪

499
00:32:45,583 --> 00:32:49,583
♪ I feel free ♪

500
00:33:32,333 --> 00:33:34,417
The first time
I saw Jimi, I think

501
00:33:34,417 --> 00:33:37,083
it was a gig we did
in London

502
00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:40,500
and I saw him a couple
of times at the speak easy.

503
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,667
He used to come around to
the flat a lot and stay there.

504
00:33:44,667 --> 00:33:46,333
We had a great time really.

505
00:33:46,333 --> 00:33:50,375
He was so shy, and quiet,
withdrawn and gentle.

506
00:33:52,166 --> 00:33:56,000
We talk about every day
kind of ambitions, you know?

507
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,834
And the way we want
the world to be

508
00:33:57,834 --> 00:34:00,041
but the conversation never
stayed that way for very long.

509
00:34:00,041 --> 00:34:04,041
'Cause Jimi had such
a surreal mind.

510
00:34:04,041 --> 00:34:07,166
Once you start going
talking about anything.

511
00:34:07,166 --> 00:34:09,792
You'd end up talking about
flying saucers, you know?

512
00:34:09,792 --> 00:34:11,709
Sort of purple velvet
moons.

513
00:34:11,709 --> 00:34:13,000
It's like.

514
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,875
And you couldn't keep him
on the ground for any length

515
00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:16,959
of time.

516
00:35:01,709 --> 00:35:04,917
Eric came to
my house in Oxford with Ginger

517
00:35:04,917 --> 00:35:08,125
and said he was forming Cream

518
00:35:08,125 --> 00:35:11,291
and would I like to go
and work for them.

519
00:35:11,291 --> 00:35:14,333
I think he wanted somebody
around who he knew.

520
00:35:16,125 --> 00:35:19,458
He was enjoying the new fruits
of success hugely

521
00:35:19,458 --> 00:35:23,000
and the psychedelic musical
venture that was happening.

522
00:35:25,792 --> 00:35:28,375
Eric and Cream
came to New York

523
00:35:28,375 --> 00:35:32,834
and they came to record
in our studio.

524
00:35:33,917 --> 00:35:38,458
They played songs
that are not absolutely

525
00:35:38,458 --> 00:35:42,375
in a 12 or eight bar form
but have a blues feel.

526
00:35:43,792 --> 00:35:46,083
It's a new music.

527
00:35:46,083 --> 00:35:49,709
Especially when Eric
played the guitar.

528
00:35:49,709 --> 00:35:51,333
[ Hey Joe
playing]

529
00:35:53,166 --> 00:35:55,458
When I walked
into my studio,

530
00:35:55,458 --> 00:35:57,959
I had a bunch of English
roadies setting up

531
00:35:57,959 --> 00:36:00,083
double stacks
of Marshalls

532
00:36:00,083 --> 00:36:03,625
and double bass drums
and double cymbal stands

533
00:36:03,625 --> 00:36:05,125
and so I just looked
and I thought,

534
00:36:05,125 --> 00:36:06,417
"What, have I got two
of everything?"

535
00:36:06,417 --> 00:36:08,041
I couldn't believe what
I was looking at,

536
00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:09,250
it was just three men.

537
00:36:18,375 --> 00:36:20,083
[Strange Brew
playing]

538
00:36:35,792 --> 00:36:39,333
♪ Strange brew ♪

539
00:36:39,333 --> 00:36:41,417
♪ Kill what's inside of you ♪

540
00:36:45,166 --> 00:36:49,625
♪ She's a witch of trouble
in electric blue ♪

541
00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:54,333
♪ In her own mad mind
she's in love with you ♪

542
00:36:54,333 --> 00:36:56,083
♪ With you ♪

543
00:36:57,291 --> 00:36:59,959
♪ Now what you gonna do? ♪

544
00:37:03,542 --> 00:37:08,542
♪ Strange brew
kill what's inside of you ♪

545
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:36,125
We were recording
in Atlantic Studios.

546
00:38:36,125 --> 00:38:39,125
We're sharing that workspace
with Ray Charles,

547
00:38:39,125 --> 00:38:41,250
Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding

548
00:38:41,250 --> 00:38:46,083
and Wilson Pickett,
so we were in their play room.

549
00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:49,458
A lot of the time, we were
going out as Otis Redding

550
00:38:49,458 --> 00:38:51,792
was coming in
or Aretha Franklin

551
00:38:51,792 --> 00:38:53,959
was coming, the sessions
that would overlap.

552
00:38:53,959 --> 00:38:55,750
And one day Ahmet said,

553
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:56,834
"What would you like
to play?"

554
00:38:56,834 --> 00:39:00,417
And I said,
"Oof, would I"

555
00:39:02,041 --> 00:39:03,875
-Okay.
-Standby.

556
00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:05,959
I looked in
and there was Joe South,

557
00:39:05,959 --> 00:39:07,125
Bobby Hinton, Bobby Womack.

558
00:39:07,125 --> 00:39:10,834
There were like five
guitar players on the floor

559
00:39:10,834 --> 00:39:13,125
and Aretha on piano, singing.

560
00:39:14,625 --> 00:39:17,166
And I went in there
with my permed hair

561
00:39:17,166 --> 00:39:19,709
and pink trousers,
high-heeled boots.

562
00:39:19,709 --> 00:39:22,083
Looking like a freak
from Mars

563
00:39:22,083 --> 00:39:24,208
and they looked at me
like, "What's this?"

564
00:39:24,208 --> 00:39:27,208
And I sat down
and played.

565
00:39:27,208 --> 00:39:30,458
♪ If you had a dollar ♪

566
00:39:34,375 --> 00:39:36,792
♪ And I had a dime ♪

567
00:39:40,542 --> 00:39:43,709
♪ I wonder could
I borrow yours? ♪

568
00:39:45,375 --> 00:39:49,417
♪ As easy as you could mine ♪

569
00:39:52,667 --> 00:39:56,333
♪ Because when you need
my love ♪

570
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,000
♪ And I gave time
after time ♪

571
00:40:04,458 --> 00:40:09,041
♪ And turn around
to find me no returns ♪

572
00:40:09,041 --> 00:40:15,250
♪ Then, my friend
you've used my dimes ♪

573
00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:17,667
Aretha Franklin
started laughing when

574
00:40:17,667 --> 00:40:19,500
she saw Eric because
he was wearing

575
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:23,166
psychedelic costume.

576
00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:25,417
But when Eric played
the guitar,

577
00:40:25,417 --> 00:40:27,417
Aretha stopped laughing

578
00:40:27,417 --> 00:40:29,375
because it was the real thing.

579
00:40:29,375 --> 00:40:32,417
♪ Your heart
to do for me ♪

580
00:40:32,417 --> 00:40:37,417
♪ Then, baby, just don't
darken my front door ♪

581
00:40:38,375 --> 00:40:40,166
♪ Baby ♪

582
00:40:41,917 --> 00:40:46,667
♪ I want you to be as good
to me as I am to you ♪

583
00:40:51,875 --> 00:40:53,583
♪ Baby ♪

584
00:40:53,583 --> 00:40:56,083
Man, that was it,
I thought if that comes out.

585
00:40:56,083 --> 00:40:57,959
I don't have
to do anything again.

586
00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:03,667
♪ Listen,
don't you walk around here ♪

587
00:41:05,875 --> 00:41:09,834
♪ Feeling like you can
treat me any ol' way ♪

588
00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:20,792
I had just arrived
from Paris to be a model.

589
00:41:21,917 --> 00:41:24,041
When I met Eric,
I didn't know

590
00:41:24,041 --> 00:41:24,917
who he was at all.

591
00:41:26,542 --> 00:41:29,875
He was a bit shy, he was
a bit inhibited at first.

592
00:41:31,291 --> 00:41:34,250
But then we started
going out together.

593
00:41:34,250 --> 00:41:36,792
And we pretty much
moved in together

594
00:41:36,792 --> 00:41:37,667
very quickly.

595
00:41:41,291 --> 00:41:44,041
Charlotte
was very funny

596
00:41:44,041 --> 00:41:45,917
and very, very open minded.

597
00:41:46,792 --> 00:41:48,917
We had a friendship.

598
00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:51,250
We just were comfortable
together.

599
00:41:52,291 --> 00:41:56,667
She saw who I was

600
00:41:56,667 --> 00:41:58,166
for better or worse.

601
00:42:00,583 --> 00:42:02,333
I just started
feeling like

602
00:42:02,333 --> 00:42:03,667
Alice in Wonderland.

603
00:42:03,667 --> 00:42:07,250
I was totally into
the Beatles.

604
00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:09,792
The next minute,
we were invited

605
00:42:09,792 --> 00:42:15,208
to take part of this
special event by the Beatles.

606
00:42:15,208 --> 00:42:18,750
It was like, "Okay."
You know,

607
00:42:18,750 --> 00:42:19,709
normal.

608
00:42:19,709 --> 00:42:20,834
♪ Learn how to play the game ♪

609
00:42:22,333 --> 00:42:23,709
♪ It's easy ♪

610
00:42:26,959 --> 00:42:30,375
♪ Nothing you can make
that can't be made ♪

611
00:42:30,375 --> 00:42:32,250
When I moved into
the Kings Road.

612
00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:35,125
George would drop by
on his route home

613
00:42:35,125 --> 00:42:36,375
out to Esher.

614
00:42:38,458 --> 00:42:40,333
And I've been going
to Esher a few times

615
00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:44,417
taking acid together, bit by
bit, we were becoming friends.

616
00:42:44,417 --> 00:42:46,917
♪ All you need is love ♪

617
00:42:48,291 --> 00:42:50,834
♪ All you need is love ♪

618
00:42:53,875 --> 00:42:57,458
♪ All you need is love, love ♪

619
00:42:58,458 --> 00:43:00,417
♪ Love is all you need ♪

620
00:44:09,125 --> 00:44:12,125
The audience there
was so much more advanced.

621
00:44:12,125 --> 00:44:17,667
Cream very quickly realized,
they could just open up.

622
00:44:17,667 --> 00:44:20,959
I mean they would play the
same number for 40 minutes.

623
00:44:22,250 --> 00:44:24,375
Improvisation every night.

624
00:45:15,166 --> 00:45:17,875
And the audience
couldn't have enough of it.

625
00:45:17,875 --> 00:45:21,834
It was exactly what
they had wanted to hear

626
00:45:21,834 --> 00:45:23,542
and it had suddenly arrived.

627
00:46:19,834 --> 00:46:21,542
[Crossroads
playing]

628
00:46:40,125 --> 00:46:43,083
♪ I went down
to the crossroads ♪

629
00:46:43,083 --> 00:46:45,125
♪ Fell down on my knees ♪

630
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:52,667
♪ Down to the crossroads
fell down on my knees ♪

631
00:46:55,709 --> 00:46:56,792
♪ Asked the Lord above
for mercy ♪

632
00:46:56,792 --> 00:46:59,583
♪ Save me if you please ♪

633
00:47:02,583 --> 00:47:05,458
♪ I went down
to the crossroads ♪

634
00:47:05,458 --> 00:47:07,500
♪ Tried to flag a ride ♪

635
00:47:09,041 --> 00:47:14,250
♪ Down to the crossroads
tried to flag a ride ♪

636
00:47:16,250 --> 00:47:21,208
♪ Nobody seemed to know me
everybody passed me by ♪

637
00:47:24,583 --> 00:47:25,834
Many of these
young players

638
00:47:25,834 --> 00:47:27,250
coming along today

639
00:47:27,250 --> 00:47:30,583
have been really turned on by
the way you play the guitar.

640
00:47:30,583 --> 00:47:33,959
I'm grateful some of them
seem to like me.

641
00:47:33,959 --> 00:47:36,417
I'm grateful because

642
00:47:36,417 --> 00:47:40,166
to me, it seemed
to open a few doors for us

643
00:47:40,166 --> 00:47:44,041
that seemed like that was
never gonna be open.

644
00:47:46,667 --> 00:47:50,458
Because until the days of
rock 'n' roll a lot of times,

645
00:47:50,458 --> 00:47:52,792
a lot of the places, we...
They just wouldn't accept us.

646
00:47:52,792 --> 00:47:56,834
I'm not speaking racially,

647
00:47:56,834 --> 00:47:58,375
I'm just talking about
the people at home

648
00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:00,667
that just wouldn't accept us
in some of the places that...

649
00:48:00,667 --> 00:48:03,041
The door's open now,
that you can go into.

650
00:48:03,041 --> 00:48:05,667
[Crossroads
continues]

651
00:48:05,667 --> 00:48:08,500
B.B King played
the joints for years.

652
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:11,291
Otis Redding was
a black R&B singer

653
00:48:11,291 --> 00:48:13,583
who played the southern route.

654
00:48:13,583 --> 00:48:16,250
And what rock n' roll
or the popularity

655
00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:17,583
of rock n' roll
has afforded us

656
00:48:17,583 --> 00:48:19,750
is the opportunity
to use

657
00:48:19,750 --> 00:48:21,875
good rock n' roll
as bait to bring

658
00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:24,041
the people in, but once
they got it, present them with

659
00:48:24,709 --> 00:48:25,792
uh...

660
00:48:25,792 --> 00:48:28,667
some of the people who,
were it not for them,

661
00:48:28,667 --> 00:48:29,083
there wouldn't be
any rock n' roll.

662
00:48:32,083 --> 00:48:35,208
I was playing
in New York City

663
00:48:35,208 --> 00:48:37,709
and I've been hearing about
this young guitarist,

664
00:48:37,709 --> 00:48:40,166
the Cream and so on.

665
00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:43,750
I met this young man.

666
00:48:43,750 --> 00:48:48,375
Long hair
and very quiet like.

667
00:48:48,375 --> 00:48:50,000
We had a jam session.

668
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,083
Eric seemed to take time,
it's like putting pieces

669
00:48:55,083 --> 00:48:56,458
in a puzzle.

670
00:48:56,458 --> 00:48:58,959
Like an old seasoned guy.

671
00:49:00,083 --> 00:49:02,583
It could sound good,
but if you gonna play

672
00:49:02,583 --> 00:49:05,500
more than two or three notes,
you need to have

673
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:07,709
a story to tell.

674
00:49:07,709 --> 00:49:09,959
And he told me
some very good ones.

675
00:49:11,208 --> 00:49:15,500
White America had
never paid attention to blues.

676
00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:18,250
So thanks to Eric, really,
it awakened.

677
00:49:19,041 --> 00:49:20,875
Started them listening.

678
00:49:20,875 --> 00:49:23,458
Now a lot of doors were
opened for B.B. King

679
00:49:23,458 --> 00:49:25,458
and many other people
like myself.

680
00:49:25,458 --> 00:49:26,166
[Crossroads
continues]

681
00:49:33,375 --> 00:49:36,667
They did like
300 shows a year.

682
00:49:36,667 --> 00:49:39,125
And had a huge, huge following

683
00:49:39,125 --> 00:49:43,000
based on their live
performances.

684
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,959
So at that time,
Cream got to be

685
00:49:45,959 --> 00:49:48,291
the biggest band in the world.

686
00:49:48,291 --> 00:49:50,667
Much bigger than
the Rolling Stones

687
00:49:50,667 --> 00:49:52,000
and the Beatles.

688
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:04,875
Eric Clapton, please.

689
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:09,792
When you're improvising,

690
00:50:09,792 --> 00:50:10,959
do you use stock phrases?

691
00:50:10,959 --> 00:50:13,083
Um, yeah, there are
always phrases

692
00:50:13,083 --> 00:50:15,750
that I always play
that are stock phrases

693
00:50:15,750 --> 00:50:17,041
that I work from
you know,

694
00:50:17,041 --> 00:50:18,291
which are just like...

695
00:50:24,166 --> 00:50:26,000
All these runs.

696
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,750
You know, I've put
together from old phrases

697
00:50:28,750 --> 00:50:30,625
that I've first
started on like...

698
00:50:34,542 --> 00:50:36,959
And then they're just
kind of messed up

699
00:50:36,959 --> 00:50:38,542
with other things
which I've learned like...

700
00:50:43,166 --> 00:50:45,000
If a guy likes
playing football,

701
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,834
then that's what
he'll use to get...

702
00:50:46,834 --> 00:50:49,125
To get all of his,
kind of, basic...

703
00:50:49,125 --> 00:50:52,166
Kind of, angry bits
out of him,

704
00:50:52,166 --> 00:50:54,166
you know, that you build up
through any day.

705
00:50:54,166 --> 00:50:56,208
You can just, someone
is tooting the horn

706
00:50:56,208 --> 00:50:57,208
in the car behind you
and you'll get angry

707
00:50:57,208 --> 00:50:59,834
and you have no release
for it, you know?

708
00:50:59,834 --> 00:51:02,583
Well, that happens
to everybody,

709
00:51:02,583 --> 00:51:04,208
but you know, I've got
the advantage of being

710
00:51:04,208 --> 00:51:05,917
able to sort of
play that out

711
00:51:06,375 --> 00:51:07,959
on the guitar.

712
00:51:07,959 --> 00:51:10,291
By being sort of, um,

713
00:51:10,291 --> 00:51:12,333
fairly aggressive in
the way I'm playing,

714
00:51:12,333 --> 00:51:13,542
not the way I use it.

715
00:51:13,542 --> 00:51:15,625
That can be done too
with people like The Who.

716
00:51:15,625 --> 00:51:17,875
Can you show us?

717
00:51:17,875 --> 00:51:19,625
What you mean, you want me
to break the guitar up?

718
00:51:19,625 --> 00:51:20,667
Well, no,
not quite, just an example

719
00:51:20,667 --> 00:51:22,875
-of aggression in your music.
-Yeah, right.

720
00:51:54,250 --> 00:51:56,875
Eric
wasn't the best communicator.

721
00:51:56,875 --> 00:51:59,417
There was a lot of unsaid
things, you know,

722
00:51:59,417 --> 00:52:01,750
about where he was at.

723
00:52:01,750 --> 00:52:04,417
He enjoyed part of it
very much.

724
00:52:04,417 --> 00:52:07,166
There was an aspect
of being adored.

725
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:12,083
But it was difficult
to keep up.

726
00:52:12,083 --> 00:52:14,291
And to be on tour
for months and months.

727
00:52:22,750 --> 00:52:26,166
There was constant,
serious dispute

728
00:52:26,166 --> 00:52:30,291
between Jack and Ginger
every day.

729
00:52:30,291 --> 00:52:31,625
It didn't matter to them
what they were arguing about

730
00:52:31,625 --> 00:52:33,625
really.

731
00:52:33,625 --> 00:52:37,000
It was just, they were
at each other's throats

732
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,834
and it was very intense.

733
00:52:41,291 --> 00:52:42,959
We shut one another out,
I mean I would just run away

734
00:52:42,959 --> 00:52:46,041
from him, we never socialized.

735
00:52:46,041 --> 00:52:49,291
We never really shared ideas
any more, we just got

736
00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:51,333
together on stage and played
and then went our

737
00:52:51,333 --> 00:52:51,458
different ways.

738
00:52:53,291 --> 00:52:55,875
The whole thing was awful.

739
00:53:44,375 --> 00:53:46,125
Eric was
picking up his guitar at home.

740
00:53:46,125 --> 00:53:49,250
and twanging
on it non-stop.

741
00:53:50,333 --> 00:53:52,333
Which is not always
the easiest thing

742
00:53:52,333 --> 00:53:53,000
when you're trying
to have a conversation

743
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,875
with somebody.

744
00:53:56,500 --> 00:54:02,041
I remember finding myself
talking and I would get

745
00:54:02,041 --> 00:54:04,000
a riff from the guitar back,

746
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,542
rather than
proper communication.

747
00:54:12,875 --> 00:54:16,667
It was very hard to keep up on
an emotional, personal level.

748
00:54:19,208 --> 00:54:21,959
You know,
I'm in love with Eric.

749
00:54:21,959 --> 00:54:23,625
And then the world's
in love with him.

750
00:54:24,834 --> 00:54:27,000
We just didn't talk about
feelings.

751
00:54:28,041 --> 00:54:30,250
Eric just wouldn't go there.

752
00:54:33,250 --> 00:54:36,458
I always felt he was
running away from something.

753
00:54:42,417 --> 00:54:44,792
He started going to George
and Pattie's quite a lot

754
00:54:44,792 --> 00:54:46,333
when they lived in Surrey.

755
00:54:47,375 --> 00:54:49,250
When Cream broke up,
I think spiritually,

756
00:54:49,250 --> 00:54:51,083
he was really
rather bereft.

757
00:54:51,083 --> 00:54:54,125
And he enjoyed hanging out
and played guitar and started

758
00:54:54,125 --> 00:54:55,458
writing all day.

759
00:54:57,083 --> 00:54:59,291
Yes?

760
00:54:59,291 --> 00:55:00,375
Start again.

761
00:55:00,375 --> 00:55:01,417
Okay.

762
00:55:01,417 --> 00:55:02,959
George said, "I'm going
to do this song,

763
00:55:02,959 --> 00:55:04,250
"I want you to play
the guitar."

764
00:55:05,208 --> 00:55:06,917
How we doing, Hal?

765
00:55:06,917 --> 00:55:08,291
We did maybe
two or three takes,

766
00:55:08,291 --> 00:55:10,625
and there was a very few

767
00:55:10,625 --> 00:55:12,458
attempts at the song.

768
00:55:12,458 --> 00:55:13,625
Yes?

769
00:55:13,625 --> 00:55:14,959
Just start again.

770
00:55:14,959 --> 00:55:17,625
They were fast and furious,
they were harsh judges.

771
00:55:20,542 --> 00:55:22,333
[While My Guitar Gently Weeps
playing]

772
00:55:36,458 --> 00:55:42,667
♪ I look at you all
see the love ♪

773
00:55:42,667 --> 00:55:44,959
♪ There that's sleeping ♪

774
00:55:46,834 --> 00:55:50,583
♪ While my guitar
gently weeps ♪

775
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:59,375
♪ I look at the floor
and I see ♪

776
00:55:59,375 --> 00:56:01,959
♪ It needs sweeping ♪

777
00:56:02,834 --> 00:56:08,250
♪ Still my guitar
gently weeps ♪

778
00:56:44,291 --> 00:56:45,875
It was just
one policeman.

779
00:56:45,875 --> 00:56:48,500
His name
was Inspector Pilcher.

780
00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:50,333
He wanted to bust
all of the people

781
00:56:50,333 --> 00:56:52,709
that were in the pop business
for drugs.

782
00:56:52,709 --> 00:56:54,542
He ended up getting done
for corruption.

783
00:56:57,083 --> 00:56:58,667
He busted George

784
00:56:58,667 --> 00:57:01,417
and the word was,
he had planted dope.

785
00:57:03,333 --> 00:57:05,500
Ginger knew someone
in the police force,

786
00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:08,166
who said I was
on Pilcher's list.

787
00:57:09,750 --> 00:57:11,458
That night, the Pheasantry
got raided

788
00:57:11,458 --> 00:57:14,500
and they planted
hash everywhere.

789
00:57:15,709 --> 00:57:19,750
So I thought, well,
I better get out of town.

790
00:57:19,750 --> 00:57:24,500
♪ See the love
there that's sleeping ♪

791
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:29,542
♪ While my guitar
gently weeps ♪

792
00:57:33,917 --> 00:57:36,458
It's the first time I spent
any money really,

793
00:57:36,458 --> 00:57:38,667
any of the money
that I made with Cream.

794
00:57:38,667 --> 00:57:41,000
I never owned anything
before.

795
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,125
I mean, I'd been bumming
around all my life

796
00:57:44,125 --> 00:57:46,917
from the day that I first
left Ripley.

797
00:57:49,792 --> 00:57:51,542
I just fell in love with it.

798
00:57:51,542 --> 00:57:53,875
I had the most incredible
feeling of coming home.

799
00:57:58,834 --> 00:58:01,834
Now, Eric had a house
in Newhurst

800
00:58:01,834 --> 00:58:02,834
which is just beyond
Esher.

801
00:58:02,834 --> 00:58:04,500
So it's quite easy for
the two of them

802
00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:07,041
to go to each other's houses.

803
00:58:07,041 --> 00:58:11,000
And it was just
like a really nice friendship

804
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,625
going on.

805
00:58:12,625 --> 00:58:16,875
George had a lot of respect
for Eric's guitar playing.

806
00:58:16,875 --> 00:58:19,125
It was just four friends.

807
00:58:19,125 --> 00:58:20,083
We'd hang out
together

808
00:58:20,083 --> 00:58:23,375
and we'd go to
the restaurants and bars.

809
00:58:23,375 --> 00:58:25,750
He used to come over
to the house quite a lot.

810
00:58:26,834 --> 00:58:27,792
Not always to see George.

811
00:58:31,166 --> 00:58:33,291
I think as time went on.

812
00:58:33,291 --> 00:58:36,417
You know how some people
have that stare that's longer

813
00:58:36,417 --> 00:58:38,417
than it should be?

814
00:58:38,417 --> 00:58:40,208
And I caught a couple
of those.

815
00:58:46,834 --> 00:58:47,750
I knew it was wrong.

816
00:58:50,417 --> 00:58:52,333
George was my best friend.

817
00:58:54,625 --> 00:58:59,083
But I felt a compulsion
towards her.

818
00:58:59,083 --> 00:59:02,500
That she was probably
the most desirable woman

819
00:59:02,500 --> 00:59:02,625
I had ever met.

820
00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:07,458
And even though,
they were married,

821
00:59:07,458 --> 00:59:07,875
I wanted her.

822
00:59:10,458 --> 00:59:12,000
Even though
she was unavailable

823
00:59:13,291 --> 00:59:15,125
and that frightened me.

824
00:59:19,750 --> 00:59:22,417
I felt there was
a big confusion in his head

825
00:59:22,417 --> 00:59:23,583
about women.

826
00:59:23,583 --> 00:59:25,625
And what they represented
to him.

827
00:59:27,208 --> 00:59:29,667
It was so intense
and he was so intense.

828
01:00:05,583 --> 01:00:08,917
When I was nine,
my grandmother said to me.

829
01:00:08,917 --> 01:00:11,625
This lady's coming
and she's your real mum

830
01:00:11,625 --> 01:00:13,291
and we're gonna go
and meet her

831
01:00:13,291 --> 01:00:13,750
and she's gonna stay
for a little while.

832
01:00:16,750 --> 01:00:20,291
She arrived by boat
and we went to meet her

833
01:00:20,291 --> 01:00:21,834
at Southampton.

834
01:00:21,834 --> 01:00:22,792
She was on
one of those big liners.

835
01:00:24,834 --> 01:00:26,792
She came with two kids.

836
01:00:29,166 --> 01:00:31,208
Eric was
very quiet that day.

837
01:00:31,208 --> 01:00:33,417
He's very shy.

838
01:00:34,792 --> 01:00:37,000
He wanted to see
his real mum.

839
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,458
And I think Rick
was looking for love.

840
01:00:44,375 --> 01:00:46,125
We got back to Ripley

841
01:00:46,125 --> 01:00:48,625
and then when everyone
came down to get a cup of tea

842
01:00:48,625 --> 01:00:50,291
or whatever.

843
01:00:50,291 --> 01:00:52,834
I wanted to know
the most important thing.

844
01:00:55,125 --> 01:00:57,875
"You're my mum,
are you gonna be my mum?"

845
01:01:00,834 --> 01:01:02,417
And she said,

846
01:01:02,417 --> 01:01:04,208
"No.

847
01:01:04,208 --> 01:01:05,875
"I think it's best
we leave it the way it is."

848
01:01:11,166 --> 01:01:12,875
It was so cruel.

849
01:01:12,875 --> 01:01:15,333
She didn't like the fact
he called her, "mum."

850
01:01:17,083 --> 01:01:21,125
I couldn't believe anybody
could be so nasty.

851
01:01:23,834 --> 01:01:26,792
She brought her other son,
Bryan

852
01:01:26,792 --> 01:01:29,041
and he said to 'Ric,
"Are you my brother?"

853
01:01:29,041 --> 01:01:31,792
And she heard that,
and she said, "No, he's not

854
01:01:31,792 --> 01:01:33,667
"your brother."

855
01:01:33,667 --> 01:01:36,000
I couldn't believe it,
she could say things like that

856
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:36,834
to a child.

857
01:01:42,375 --> 01:01:44,041
I was
so angry with her.

858
01:01:45,417 --> 01:01:46,959
I just felt rejection.

859
01:01:52,041 --> 01:01:52,917
I didn't talk to anybody.

860
01:01:56,834 --> 01:02:00,000
I was more on my own
than I had ever been.

861
01:02:19,458 --> 01:02:20,959
[Presence of the Lord
playing]

862
01:02:42,917 --> 01:02:45,625
Eric felt that
he wanted to try something

863
01:02:45,625 --> 01:02:47,208
a bit different

864
01:02:47,208 --> 01:02:50,000
musically and asked me
if I'd be interested.

865
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,000
We were essentially
just experimenting.

866
01:03:00,291 --> 01:03:03,083
None of us more than Eric
I think,

867
01:03:03,083 --> 01:03:06,750
he was definitely going
through something.

868
01:03:16,208 --> 01:03:18,625
We were just
having fun,

869
01:03:18,625 --> 01:03:19,000
we hadn't got an agenda.

870
01:03:21,667 --> 01:03:24,458
I wrote a song called,
Presence of the Lord

871
01:03:24,458 --> 01:03:26,125
which it starts out

872
01:03:26,125 --> 01:03:28,000
with the line, "I finally
found a place to live."

873
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,959
And I was really writing
about Hurtwood.

874
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:39,000
♪ I have finally found
a place to live ♪

875
01:03:41,625 --> 01:03:46,625
♪ Just like I never
could before ♪

876
01:03:47,875 --> 01:03:53,834
♪ And I know I don't have
much to give ♪

877
01:03:56,125 --> 01:03:59,125
♪ But I can open any door ♪

878
01:04:02,750 --> 01:04:08,583
♪ Everybody knows the secret ♪

879
01:04:11,250 --> 01:04:16,250
♪ Everybody knows the score
yeah ♪

880
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,959
♪ I have finally found
a place to live ♪

881
01:04:26,208 --> 01:04:29,000
♪ In the presence
of the Lord ♪

882
01:04:31,333 --> 01:04:34,458
♪ In the presence
of the Lord ♪

883
01:04:40,709 --> 01:04:42,875
By now, Charlotte
had had enough.

884
01:04:43,959 --> 01:04:47,208
We broke up
and she'd gone back to Paris.

885
01:04:47,208 --> 01:04:51,375
And I had begun on and off
to see this girl, Alice.

886
01:04:52,250 --> 01:04:54,667
She was a great woman.

887
01:04:54,667 --> 01:04:58,166
But she didn't know that
I was obsessed with Pattie.

888
01:05:00,792 --> 01:05:05,375
♪ Everybody knows the secret ♪

889
01:05:09,500 --> 01:05:14,208
♪ Everybody knows the score
yeah, yeah ♪

890
01:05:16,709 --> 01:05:21,750
♪ I have finally found
a way to live ♪

891
01:05:22,917 --> 01:05:27,250
♪ In the presence
of the Lord ♪

892
01:05:29,625 --> 01:05:32,583
♪ In the presence
of the Lord ♪

893
01:05:47,250 --> 01:05:49,583
One morning,
I woke up and

894
01:05:49,583 --> 01:05:51,667
opening the mail, I found
this letter

895
01:05:51,667 --> 01:05:53,709
with tiny little
handwriting.

896
01:05:55,875 --> 01:05:58,458
And I opened it
and it said,

897
01:05:59,959 --> 01:06:01,125
"Dearest L."

898
01:06:05,458 --> 01:06:09,208
The spacing of the words
and the size of the lettering

899
01:06:09,208 --> 01:06:11,291
compared to the size
of the page.

900
01:06:11,291 --> 01:06:14,667
It was quiet,
but it was full of passion.

901
01:06:16,667 --> 01:06:19,250
I almost had a sort of
physical reaction

902
01:06:19,250 --> 01:06:22,333
that somebody could write
something so amazingly

903
01:06:22,333 --> 01:06:24,542
beautiful and yet
keeping it quiet.

904
01:06:26,625 --> 01:06:28,417
It was bursting with passion.

905
01:06:35,458 --> 01:06:38,041
And later
in the early evening,

906
01:06:38,041 --> 01:06:40,959
the phone rang
and it was Eric.

907
01:06:40,959 --> 01:06:43,458
He said, "I mean
what I say in the letter."

908
01:06:56,125 --> 01:06:59,333
The very first time
I met Eric.

909
01:06:59,333 --> 01:07:01,959
We were opening up
for Blind Faith.

910
01:07:01,959 --> 01:07:04,875
That band broke up,
so I called up Eric

911
01:07:04,875 --> 01:07:07,208
and I just said,
"I needed to get away,

912
01:07:07,208 --> 01:07:08,208
"and just to get quiet
for a while."

913
01:07:08,208 --> 01:07:11,333
And he said,
"Why don't you come over?"

914
01:07:11,333 --> 01:07:14,625
We just hung out and played
and watched silly programs

915
01:07:14,625 --> 01:07:15,792
and stuff, you know?

916
01:07:18,750 --> 01:07:21,625
I was offered a concert
which was a benefit, you know?

917
01:07:21,625 --> 01:07:22,750
Wouldn't make any money,
really, it was just a chance

918
01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:25,041
to play somewhere.

919
01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:26,333
Bobby and I

920
01:07:26,333 --> 01:07:27,542
thought, "Why don't
we do that?"

921
01:07:27,542 --> 01:07:28,917
So we only did
the rhythm section,

922
01:07:28,917 --> 01:07:30,709
but the only rhythm section
we knew that we could

923
01:07:30,709 --> 01:07:32,375
work with was Jim and Carl.

924
01:07:32,375 --> 01:07:33,333
So we got Jim and Carl over.

925
01:07:34,542 --> 01:07:37,333
And I think that was
the only thing we had planned.

926
01:08:04,875 --> 01:08:09,250
It was all about
just playing constantly.

927
01:08:09,250 --> 01:08:12,208
There was times when
we jammed in E for like days.

928
01:08:27,125 --> 01:08:28,750
There was really
no break from it,

929
01:08:28,750 --> 01:08:31,834
there was like
a constant musical party.

930
01:08:31,834 --> 01:08:33,542
Everybody came over
to visit.

931
01:08:37,208 --> 01:08:39,834
There was always
a lot of cocaine.

932
01:08:39,834 --> 01:08:41,083
Lot of Mandrax,

933
01:08:41,083 --> 01:08:43,083
which is kind of like
a quaalude.

934
01:08:43,083 --> 01:08:46,834
LSD, mescaline and a lot
of pot, a lot of hash.

935
01:08:48,625 --> 01:08:52,625
I knew something was wrong
with Eric, he wasn't himself,

936
01:08:52,625 --> 01:08:55,291
he was very distracted
all the time.

937
01:08:55,291 --> 01:08:58,125
Whenever I saw Pattie, I saw
him perk up a little bit.

938
01:08:58,125 --> 01:08:58,959
He had a lot of pictures
of her around,

939
01:08:58,959 --> 01:09:00,500
like modelling pictures.

940
01:09:00,500 --> 01:09:03,709
I think that was even bigger
than his music,

941
01:09:03,709 --> 01:09:05,792
because he seemed
to be so obsessed.

942
01:09:10,709 --> 01:09:13,959
Eric started to phone me
and said, "Come on.

943
01:09:13,959 --> 01:09:15,166
"You're obviously unhappy,
come away with me."

944
01:09:15,166 --> 01:09:18,250
And I'd say, "No, I can't."

945
01:09:18,250 --> 01:09:20,458
You know, I'm married
to George and he'll say,

946
01:09:20,458 --> 01:09:21,333
"Look, come on..."

947
01:09:22,917 --> 01:09:26,000
He was fun and awake
and alive.

948
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,041
It was the most
wonderful temptation

949
01:09:28,959 --> 01:09:30,375
and I could only compare
him to George

950
01:09:30,375 --> 01:09:33,458
who could be very cold
and would just turn off.

951
01:09:37,375 --> 01:09:40,709
So from time to time,
during the summer,

952
01:09:40,709 --> 01:09:42,458
Eric and I saw each other.

953
01:09:42,458 --> 01:09:46,291
We'd go to little places for
coffee, lunch or even dinner.

954
01:09:57,458 --> 01:10:00,583
George Harrison
rang one afternoon

955
01:10:00,583 --> 01:10:02,166
and he asked Eric,

956
01:10:02,166 --> 01:10:05,000
if he and I would like to
play on his first album

957
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,208
that he's gonna do.

958
01:10:06,208 --> 01:10:09,083
He had all these songs,
you know?

959
01:10:09,083 --> 01:10:10,583
Eric and I had talked
about who we wanted

960
01:10:10,583 --> 01:10:12,291
in the band.

961
01:10:12,291 --> 01:10:14,959
Of course we knew,
we wanted Carl.

962
01:10:14,959 --> 01:10:18,083
And Jim Gordon
just storm trooped over

963
01:10:18,083 --> 01:10:19,583
and we were ready to go,
we couldn't wait.

964
01:10:19,583 --> 01:10:22,750
You know, because it was to go
into the studio and record

965
01:10:22,750 --> 01:10:24,709
All Things Must Pass.

966
01:10:24,709 --> 01:10:27,709
So, really, we put
the band together

967
01:10:27,709 --> 01:10:30,667
during the
All Things
Must Pass  sessions.

968
01:10:30,667 --> 01:10:31,542
[My Sweet Lord
playing]

969
01:10:34,333 --> 01:10:36,959
That was our first
recording,

970
01:10:36,959 --> 01:10:38,875
it was
All Things Must Pass.

971
01:10:38,875 --> 01:10:40,500
It was the first Dominos
real recording.

972
01:10:42,333 --> 01:10:45,375
But that's when
the drugs were coming in.

973
01:10:45,375 --> 01:10:49,625
This guy would show up
at Abbey Road

974
01:10:49,625 --> 01:10:51,166
and sell you your coke

975
01:10:51,166 --> 01:10:52,458
but he'd make sure
that you bought

976
01:10:52,458 --> 01:10:54,750
smack as well.

977
01:10:54,750 --> 01:10:56,333
That was the deal,
he wouldn't sell you one

978
01:10:56,333 --> 01:10:57,542
without the other.

979
01:10:57,542 --> 01:10:59,208
♪ Really want to see you ♪

980
01:11:01,583 --> 01:11:03,166
Eric says,
"You wanna try some of this?

981
01:11:03,166 --> 01:11:06,083
You know, the heroin.

982
01:11:06,083 --> 01:11:08,375
I said, "No, man,
let me just watch you."

983
01:11:11,625 --> 01:11:12,333
He did it.

984
01:11:12,333 --> 01:11:15,083
Just snorted it, you know?

985
01:11:15,083 --> 01:11:16,917
I said, "What does
it feel like?"

986
01:11:16,917 --> 01:11:20,542
He said, "Pink cotton wool
surrounding me."

987
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,291
Then I went in
to a sort of trance.

988
01:11:32,291 --> 01:11:36,083
It got really mysterious
and I didn't know where I was.

989
01:11:39,083 --> 01:11:42,208
I had been given
a little Persian book.

990
01:11:43,208 --> 01:11:45,458
The love story about
Laila and Majnun.

991
01:11:49,291 --> 01:11:52,208
An absolute tragedy
of doomed love.

992
01:11:55,625 --> 01:11:59,417
The hero ends up alone
in the desert

993
01:12:02,041 --> 01:12:05,625
and gives his soul up
to Allah before dying alone.

994
01:12:08,125 --> 01:12:11,792
I saw myself as that.

995
01:12:11,792 --> 01:12:15,625
I saw the whole experience
with Pattie as tragedy.

996
01:12:20,834 --> 01:12:25,000
Things became rather
tricky with George and I.

997
01:12:26,750 --> 01:12:30,959
I met with Eric, we had
a drink in South Kensington,

998
01:12:30,959 --> 01:12:32,083
he had a flat there.

999
01:12:39,542 --> 01:12:42,959
Eric said, "You know,
I love you and I want you

1000
01:12:42,959 --> 01:12:44,208
"to be with me,
come away with me.

1001
01:12:44,208 --> 01:12:47,959
"I just feel that I need you."

1002
01:12:58,333 --> 01:13:01,500
We'd been flirting
for quite a while.

1003
01:13:01,500 --> 01:13:04,458
But we hadn't gone
over the line.

1004
01:13:06,375 --> 01:13:07,959
But that evening.

1005
01:13:09,417 --> 01:13:09,667
We made love.

1006
01:13:20,250 --> 01:13:23,750
And then we realized that
we were supposed to be

1007
01:13:23,750 --> 01:13:24,834
at this party.

1008
01:13:28,709 --> 01:13:31,709
Everybody was
there. It was a big party.

1009
01:13:31,709 --> 01:13:33,458
I went with Mick.

1010
01:13:33,458 --> 01:13:36,667
Paul McCartney was there,
Eric was there.

1011
01:13:37,709 --> 01:13:38,667
Pattie came without George.

1012
01:13:42,875 --> 01:13:45,792
For the first time, it
felt like there was a chance

1013
01:13:45,792 --> 01:13:46,625
for us.

1014
01:13:48,208 --> 01:13:50,125
Eric said he wanted
to talk to me

1015
01:13:50,125 --> 01:13:51,625
and we were in the garden.

1016
01:13:51,625 --> 01:13:54,500
This was quite late, you know,
because the sun was beginning

1017
01:13:54,500 --> 01:13:54,625
to come up.

1018
01:13:57,250 --> 01:14:00,000
And George appeared
from nowhere

1019
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,500
from the mists
of the morning.

1020
01:14:06,041 --> 01:14:09,125
And I said, "I have
to tell you something,

1021
01:14:09,125 --> 01:14:10,542
"I'm in love with your wife."

1022
01:14:12,750 --> 01:14:15,917
And George looked at
me accusingly and said,

1023
01:14:15,917 --> 01:14:18,208
"Well, what are you gonna do,
are you going with him

1024
01:14:18,208 --> 01:14:18,542
"or are you coming back
with me?"

1025
01:14:21,834 --> 01:14:24,417
I felt her detach.

1026
01:14:24,417 --> 01:14:27,041
Right there and then,
I knew the deal was off.

1027
01:14:28,959 --> 01:14:31,500
So I said, "George,
of course I'm going with you."

1028
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:39,750
There were no extra words,
there was nothing else

1029
01:14:39,750 --> 01:14:43,458
to be discussed except who
was I going home with

1030
01:14:43,458 --> 01:14:46,291
and I found that
deeply depressing.

1031
01:14:50,083 --> 01:14:52,834
Everyone knew that
George was playing around

1032
01:14:52,834 --> 01:14:55,709
but she was absolutely
loyal to him.

1033
01:15:02,125 --> 01:15:04,291
And I thought,
"What do you want?

1034
01:15:04,291 --> 01:15:06,834
"Do you want to see me crawl
across the floor to you?"

1035
01:15:07,834 --> 01:15:08,667
What do I have to do?

1036
01:15:08,667 --> 01:15:11,917
[Thorn Tree In The Garden
playing]

1037
01:15:11,917 --> 01:15:14,000
♪ There's a thorn tree
in the garden ♪

1038
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,834
♪ If you know just
what I mean ♪

1039
01:15:16,834 --> 01:15:19,500
♪ And I hate to hurt
your feelings ♪

1040
01:15:19,500 --> 01:15:21,917
♪ But it's not the way
it seems ♪

1041
01:15:21,917 --> 01:15:25,333
♪ 'Cause I miss her ♪

1042
01:15:32,333 --> 01:15:34,625
♪ She's the only girl
I've cared for

1043
01:15:34,625 --> 01:15:37,166
♪ The only one I've known ♪

1044
01:15:37,166 --> 01:15:42,000
♪ And no one ever shared more
love than we've known ♪

1045
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,667
♪ And I miss her ♪

1046
01:15:43,667 --> 01:15:49,166
Eric was going through
this major major trauma.

1047
01:15:49,166 --> 01:15:52,542
That's why all that music
spoke that way.

1048
01:15:52,542 --> 01:15:54,458
It was Eric telling
the truth about

1049
01:15:54,458 --> 01:15:56,333
what was going on
with him right then.

1050
01:15:56,333 --> 01:15:57,709
That was for sure.

1051
01:15:57,709 --> 01:16:00,208
♪ And if she winds up
walking the streets ♪

1052
01:16:00,208 --> 01:16:03,500
♪ Loving every other
man she meets ♪

1053
01:16:03,500 --> 01:16:08,000
♪ Who'll be the one
to answer why? ♪

1054
01:16:09,542 --> 01:16:11,333
The people in the South
will go out back

1055
01:16:11,333 --> 01:16:13,083
and roll around
in the gravel, you know?

1056
01:16:13,083 --> 01:16:15,875
About being in love
with your best friend's wife.

1057
01:16:17,208 --> 01:16:18,583
Eric did it musically.

1058
01:16:18,583 --> 01:16:21,750
He wanted so much
to get Pattie back

1059
01:16:21,750 --> 01:16:24,625
and he said
it was time to record.

1060
01:16:32,458 --> 01:16:34,834
♪ Maybe someday soon ♪

1061
01:16:36,375 --> 01:16:41,500
♪ Somewhere ♪

1062
01:17:07,083 --> 01:17:09,458
When we got to Miami.

1063
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:11,792
We set up in Thunderbird
motel down there,

1064
01:17:11,792 --> 01:17:16,458
with very large bags
of cocaine.

1065
01:17:18,041 --> 01:17:20,917
We really didn't have
enough songs for an album.

1066
01:17:22,583 --> 01:17:24,208
But we had faith.

1067
01:17:25,625 --> 01:17:27,959
Played all day,
played all night.

1068
01:17:27,959 --> 01:17:30,709
Get back to hotel,
hole up in Eric's room

1069
01:17:30,709 --> 01:17:33,667
or something and playing
that thing.

1070
01:17:37,542 --> 01:17:41,125
Once more,
once more, once more. Sorry.

1071
01:17:51,834 --> 01:17:56,083
They started playing
me concepts for songs

1072
01:17:56,083 --> 01:17:59,125
that they had not
finalized the arrangements on

1073
01:17:59,125 --> 01:18:02,208
and I just kept tape
rolling for a day or two,

1074
01:18:02,208 --> 01:18:03,834
because I was learning
the songs as

1075
01:18:03,834 --> 01:18:05,667
they were playing them
and the songs

1076
01:18:05,667 --> 01:18:07,291
and the arrangements
were evolving.

1077
01:18:07,291 --> 01:18:10,500
I can't do it. When it
gets a little more complicated

1078
01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:12,917
than a simple harmony,
I'm not sure if I could.

1079
01:18:12,917 --> 01:18:15,542
What if I started
out and did the first...

1080
01:18:15,542 --> 01:18:17,208
And the guitar?

1081
01:18:20,375 --> 01:18:21,834
[ Bell Bottom Blues
playing]

1082
01:18:55,542 --> 01:18:58,208
About two weeks
into the sessions,

1083
01:18:58,208 --> 01:18:59,792
we hit a brick wall.

1084
01:19:01,333 --> 01:19:04,041
We got stuck,
really badly stuck.

1085
01:19:04,041 --> 01:19:07,583
I'd written part
of the song in England.

1086
01:19:08,208 --> 01:19:09,917
For Pattie.

1087
01:19:09,917 --> 01:19:11,667
It had this sort of story
overlaid on him

1088
01:19:11,667 --> 01:19:13,333
about a little Persian book.

1089
01:19:13,333 --> 01:19:16,458
Laila and Majnum.

1090
01:19:16,458 --> 01:19:16,917
And I couldn't finish it.

1091
01:19:19,083 --> 01:19:21,417
What will you do
when you get lonely?

1092
01:19:22,917 --> 01:19:26,125
♪ And nobody's
waiting by your side ♪

1093
01:19:27,417 --> 01:19:30,917
♪ You've been running
and hiding much too long ♪

1094
01:19:30,917 --> 01:19:34,500
♪ You know it's just
your foolish pride ♪

1095
01:19:36,375 --> 01:19:38,417
That was for sure,

1096
01:19:38,417 --> 01:19:39,959
a tortured soul singing
right there.

1097
01:19:39,959 --> 01:19:43,250
But things were getting
complicated.

1098
01:19:43,250 --> 01:19:45,500
The band really needed
a new direction.

1099
01:19:46,750 --> 01:19:48,583
[ Dreams
playing]

1100
01:20:20,959 --> 01:20:24,000
Tom Dowd took us all
to see the Allman Brothers.

1101
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:27,041
And I was completely
blown away by this band

1102
01:20:27,041 --> 01:20:30,291
and they just were
incredible musicians.

1103
01:20:41,875 --> 01:20:44,417
Eric had never
met Duane.

1104
01:20:44,417 --> 01:20:45,583
He heard about Duane,
but Duane and I were

1105
01:20:45,583 --> 01:20:47,458
already tight.

1106
01:20:48,458 --> 01:20:51,333
It was Duane's show,
he ran that band,

1107
01:20:51,333 --> 01:20:52,625
he was the band leader.

1108
01:21:14,083 --> 01:21:15,667
That was it.

1109
01:21:15,667 --> 01:21:18,500
After the show, we asked him
to come back and we jammed

1110
01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:19,583
all night long.

1111
01:21:50,083 --> 01:21:51,709
[Layla
playing]

1112
01:22:15,542 --> 01:22:17,041
♪ I've tried to give you
consolation ♪

1113
01:22:19,375 --> 01:22:22,041
♪ When your old man
had let you down ♪

1114
01:22:23,750 --> 01:22:27,959
♪ Like a fool
I fell in love with you ♪

1115
01:22:27,959 --> 01:22:30,583
♪ Turned my whole
world upside down ♪

1116
01:22:30,583 --> 01:22:33,625
♪ Layla ♪

1117
01:22:33,625 --> 01:22:37,917
♪ Got me on my knees
Layla ♪

1118
01:22:37,917 --> 01:22:41,959
♪ I'm begging, darling, please
Layla ♪

1119
01:22:41,959 --> 01:22:44,792
♪ Darling won't you ease
my worried mind ♪

1120
01:23:43,500 --> 01:23:45,875
Hands are dead!

1121
01:24:09,875 --> 01:24:12,208
Duane and I just
became inseparable

1122
01:24:12,208 --> 01:24:14,250
for the rest of the time
we were there.

1123
01:24:14,250 --> 01:24:16,250
He was the catalyst
we needed.

1124
01:24:19,041 --> 01:24:21,834
It was all about love songs.

1125
01:24:21,834 --> 01:24:24,667
Ballads with
a different tempo.

1126
01:24:24,667 --> 01:24:27,959
It was that what
we can't see or touch

1127
01:24:27,959 --> 01:24:31,208
or smell, or taste or feel.

1128
01:24:31,208 --> 01:24:34,375
And of course,
it was all about Pattie.

1129
01:24:34,375 --> 01:24:36,834
That's why Eric is singing
all that pain and agony

1130
01:24:36,834 --> 01:24:37,917
and stuff.

1131
01:24:56,750 --> 01:25:00,291
I met with Eric
in South Kensington

1132
01:25:00,291 --> 01:25:03,375
he said, "I've got something
for you to hear."

1133
01:25:03,375 --> 01:25:08,208
♪ Bell bottom blues
you made me cry ♪

1134
01:25:10,917 --> 01:25:12,291
He played me
this album.

1135
01:25:14,709 --> 01:25:18,291
My gosh, it was
so powerful.

1136
01:25:18,291 --> 01:25:21,083
♪ If I could choose ♪

1137
01:25:21,667 --> 01:25:23,667
♪ A place to die ♪

1138
01:25:25,542 --> 01:25:27,333
♪ It would be in your arms ♪

1139
01:25:30,417 --> 01:25:34,291
♪ Do you want to see me crawl
across the floor to you? ♪

1140
01:25:34,291 --> 01:25:37,750
I was at bursting point
of emotion.

1141
01:25:39,625 --> 01:25:41,208
I couldn't believe that
I was the inspiration

1142
01:25:41,208 --> 01:25:43,709
for him putting
this together.

1143
01:25:45,208 --> 01:25:46,291
I thought when
I heard it,

1144
01:25:46,291 --> 01:25:49,792
that everyone would know
it was about me.

1145
01:25:49,792 --> 01:25:53,625
♪ Give me one more day
please ♪

1146
01:25:53,625 --> 01:25:57,333
♪ I don't want to fade away ♪

1147
01:25:57,333 --> 01:25:58,875
And I didn't want this
to happen.

1148
01:26:00,041 --> 01:26:02,041
I couldn't stop
listening to it.

1149
01:26:03,500 --> 01:26:06,458
But once the album
was finished, I couldn't wait

1150
01:26:06,458 --> 01:26:07,917
to get out and go home.

1151
01:26:08,625 --> 01:26:10,166
[ Layla
playing]

1152
01:26:30,667 --> 01:26:32,083
It didn't work.

1153
01:26:41,709 --> 01:26:43,208
It was all for nothing.

1154
01:26:43,917 --> 01:26:45,417
It was like a...

1155
01:26:50,125 --> 01:26:51,208
Rejection.

1156
01:27:06,208 --> 01:27:09,875
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
is over.

1157
01:27:09,875 --> 01:27:13,333
The acid rock musician died
today in a London hospital

1158
01:27:13,333 --> 01:27:15,875
apparently from an overdose
of drugs.

1159
01:27:15,875 --> 01:27:18,959
During his short career,
Hendrix flailed his

1160
01:27:18,959 --> 01:27:21,709
electric guitar into
some of the most unusual

1161
01:27:21,709 --> 01:27:22,458
sounds of an unusual music.

1162
01:27:33,041 --> 01:27:35,709
I went out into
the garden and cried all day.

1163
01:27:35,709 --> 01:27:39,041
'Cause he left me behind.

1164
01:27:39,041 --> 01:27:42,083
And not because he's gone,
but because he hadn't taken me

1165
01:27:42,083 --> 01:27:43,208
with him.

1166
01:27:44,583 --> 01:27:46,875
This made me
so fucking angry.

1167
01:28:01,583 --> 01:28:03,625
Well,
it shattered Eric, you know?

1168
01:28:03,625 --> 01:28:06,500
We had just recorded
Little Wing
couple of weeks

1169
01:28:06,500 --> 01:28:08,166
before that.

1170
01:28:08,166 --> 01:28:09,417
That was Eric's tribute
to Jimi.

1171
01:28:09,417 --> 01:28:12,583
So that had
a huge impact on Eric.

1172
01:28:30,625 --> 01:28:33,959
Morning, spot me on the
Bee Gees and the other one.

1173
01:28:33,959 --> 01:28:35,333
Excellent.

1174
01:28:35,333 --> 01:28:37,542
You hear the new mix
down there.

1175
01:28:37,542 --> 01:28:38,625
Eric, you're...

1176
01:28:38,625 --> 01:28:40,250
That Derek, they oughta be
a smash hit.

1177
01:28:40,250 --> 01:28:42,125
I'm telling you,
it's a mass...

1178
01:28:42,125 --> 01:28:43,875
Dill Besta, Greenbert.

1179
01:28:43,875 --> 01:28:46,208
Jerry...

1180
01:28:46,208 --> 01:28:47,125
All right, yeah.

1181
01:28:47,125 --> 01:28:48,959
Derek and the Dominos,
25 for cash box

1182
01:28:48,959 --> 01:28:51,625
and 24 for record.

1183
01:28:51,625 --> 01:28:57,250
I considered Eric the most
major artist on our label.

1184
01:28:58,750 --> 01:29:02,166
So I couldn't believe
the record wasn't selling

1185
01:29:02,166 --> 01:29:03,291
in America.

1186
01:29:05,583 --> 01:29:07,083
I didn't know
what to do.

1187
01:29:08,291 --> 01:29:11,834
And he knew, it was because
nobody knew that Derek

1188
01:29:11,834 --> 01:29:13,625
was Eric.

1189
01:29:13,625 --> 01:29:18,125
So, at that time,
Eric was very vulnerable.

1190
01:29:18,834 --> 01:29:20,250
Why not call the group...

1191
01:29:21,417 --> 01:29:21,542
by your name?

1192
01:29:23,458 --> 01:29:25,291
Everybody knows...

1193
01:29:25,291 --> 01:29:28,375
that Derek and the Dominos

1194
01:29:28,375 --> 01:29:31,291
are Eric Clapton,
you know what I mean?

1195
01:29:31,291 --> 01:29:33,125
But then,
what's the difference?

1196
01:29:33,125 --> 01:29:35,166
But, why, why not?

1197
01:29:35,166 --> 01:29:36,333
Well, because...

1198
01:29:39,834 --> 01:29:42,417
I guess it's just more fun
to have a name, you know...

1199
01:29:42,417 --> 01:29:45,542
It's just lighter,
you know?

1200
01:29:47,375 --> 01:29:50,750
I read something
about the idea that you wanna

1201
01:29:50,750 --> 01:29:54,792
give up touring, you're not
considering giving it all up?

1202
01:29:54,792 --> 01:29:57,375
I don't think I could
ever stop playing.

1203
01:29:57,375 --> 01:30:00,959
You know, like I could vanish
anytime, I could just stop

1204
01:30:00,959 --> 01:30:03,000
making appearances
at anytime.

1205
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:06,667
I think I could,
that's quite easy.

1206
01:30:06,667 --> 01:30:09,041
You know, financially
if I was secure enough

1207
01:30:09,041 --> 01:30:10,834
to able to not have
to go on the road

1208
01:30:10,834 --> 01:30:13,041
which I'm not at the moment,
I need to go out to make money

1209
01:30:13,041 --> 01:30:15,500
to exist.

1210
01:30:15,500 --> 01:30:18,667
If I didn't need to do that,
as long as I had someone

1211
01:30:18,667 --> 01:30:20,750
around me to play with,
you know,

1212
01:30:20,750 --> 01:30:23,750
I could probably just
stay at home all the time.

1213
01:31:38,500 --> 01:31:41,041
I feel much
more alone these days.

1214
01:31:41,041 --> 01:31:42,500
You know and if I'm alone,
I'll cry.

1215
01:31:42,500 --> 01:31:45,542
You know, literally
just weep.

1216
01:31:47,542 --> 01:31:50,166
What I want most is out.

1217
01:31:50,166 --> 01:31:51,875
You know, out of everything.

1218
01:31:53,458 --> 01:31:56,834
Because, right now, all I can
see is the suffering of today

1219
01:31:56,834 --> 01:31:58,166
and the suffering
of tomorrow.

1220
01:32:11,041 --> 01:32:12,667
It comes first.

1221
01:32:12,667 --> 01:32:14,000
Yeah.

1222
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:18,417
It's like surrounding yourself
in pink cotton wool, you know?

1223
01:32:18,417 --> 01:32:20,667
Nothing bothers you,
whatsoever, man.

1224
01:32:20,667 --> 01:32:23,250
Nothing will faze you out,
in any way.

1225
01:32:24,458 --> 01:32:26,709
I also have this death wish.

1226
01:32:28,291 --> 01:32:30,875
I don't like life.

1227
01:32:32,375 --> 01:32:34,709
No. And I'm not gonna
live very long.

1228
01:32:43,709 --> 01:32:44,875
Eric
went into seclusion.

1229
01:32:47,417 --> 01:32:50,542
He turned and walked away,
without us.

1230
01:32:50,542 --> 01:32:52,625
And he got off
into the heroin.

1231
01:32:54,834 --> 01:32:56,917
And I was gonna stay there
and wait it out.

1232
01:32:56,917 --> 01:32:59,458
But it didn't seem like
it was ever gonna happen.

1233
01:33:02,875 --> 01:33:03,750
I thought it was
the beginning.

1234
01:33:06,083 --> 01:33:06,875
I didn't know it was the end.

1235
01:33:51,875 --> 01:33:53,583
I was in Wales
at the time,

1236
01:33:53,583 --> 01:33:56,500
and I went down to Hurtwood
where he lived.

1237
01:33:59,625 --> 01:34:02,834
I didn't know anything
about heroin addiction.

1238
01:34:02,834 --> 01:34:04,542
I just thought because I was
one of his oldest friends,

1239
01:34:04,542 --> 01:34:07,709
if not his oldest friend.

1240
01:34:07,709 --> 01:34:10,125
There just might be something
we could talk about.

1241
01:34:14,291 --> 01:34:17,959
And I saw him moving past
the window upstairs

1242
01:34:17,959 --> 01:34:19,500
in the house.

1243
01:34:19,500 --> 01:34:21,041
But the house was locked.

1244
01:34:25,500 --> 01:34:28,583
And nobody had responded
to me ringing the bell,

1245
01:34:28,583 --> 01:34:30,917
knocking the door.

1246
01:34:30,917 --> 01:34:33,208
In the end, I figured,
"He doesn't want to see you,"

1247
01:34:33,208 --> 01:34:34,750
and I left him alone.

1248
01:34:58,041 --> 01:35:00,792
I didn't see him
for a long time.

1249
01:35:00,792 --> 01:35:03,792
And I thought to myself,
given his family history

1250
01:35:03,792 --> 01:35:07,333
so far, this is going
to be very difficult for him

1251
01:35:07,333 --> 01:35:08,917
to get through.

1252
01:35:08,917 --> 01:35:11,125
There are things you don't
get over.

1253
01:35:11,125 --> 01:35:14,291
You have to find a comfortable
place to put them.

1254
01:35:16,375 --> 01:35:17,709
But they're always there.

1255
01:35:41,542 --> 01:35:44,333
With '74 tour, we started
Scandinavia at first,

1256
01:35:44,333 --> 01:35:46,500
just as a warm up.

1257
01:35:46,500 --> 01:35:49,250
He was fragile, I'm not sure
whether he was

1258
01:35:49,250 --> 01:35:51,083
really aware of everything
around him.

1259
01:35:51,083 --> 01:35:52,375
What was going on
around him.

1260
01:35:56,917 --> 01:35:59,041
I managed to come off
heroin.

1261
01:35:59,041 --> 01:36:03,500
But I just went from
one addiction to another.

1262
01:36:03,500 --> 01:36:07,291
And the attitude back then
was that alcohol was okay.

1263
01:36:07,291 --> 01:36:12,417
But for me, alcohol was far
more dangerous than heroin.

1264
01:36:18,417 --> 01:36:20,250
Whether it be
record label forcing him,

1265
01:36:20,250 --> 01:36:22,834
management forcing him, may
have been a little too quick

1266
01:36:22,834 --> 01:36:25,291
going on a huge tour
like that,

1267
01:36:25,291 --> 01:36:27,208
and throwing him back into
the public limelight

1268
01:36:27,208 --> 01:36:28,166
after being a hermit

1269
01:36:28,166 --> 01:36:31,083
through the past
four or five years.

1270
01:36:34,417 --> 01:36:35,000
I'll drink to that.

1271
01:36:42,959 --> 01:36:46,000
Eric discovered
Gevassier and Remy Martin

1272
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,750
and just went into it.

1273
01:36:48,750 --> 01:36:51,625
if he got a hold of something,
he'd hit at it

1274
01:36:51,625 --> 01:36:53,542
until it was gone.

1275
01:36:53,542 --> 01:36:55,542
And before you know it,
he'd be through a whole bottle

1276
01:36:55,542 --> 01:36:59,542
of cognac before lunch time's
over.

1277
01:36:59,542 --> 01:37:01,834
It looked like
he wanted to kill himself.

1278
01:37:25,583 --> 01:37:27,834
Some shows,
he played 30 minutes

1279
01:37:27,834 --> 01:37:29,542
and say, "I'm done."

1280
01:37:29,542 --> 01:37:32,917
You know the contract may
have said an hour and a half.

1281
01:37:32,917 --> 01:37:36,458
But you also have 25,000,
30,000 people that have...

1282
01:37:36,458 --> 01:37:39,792
Get a little upset...

1283
01:37:39,792 --> 01:37:41,667
Sit down
and shut up!

1284
01:37:41,667 --> 01:37:43,542
It was still legal
to throw bottles

1285
01:37:43,542 --> 01:37:46,834
and coolers and can openers
and whatever you want

1286
01:37:46,834 --> 01:37:48,959
to throw up there,
you could throw.

1287
01:37:48,959 --> 01:37:50,959
You'll think your life
is in jeopardy.

1288
01:37:52,834 --> 01:37:54,959
Jamie Oldaker!

1289
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:57,291
Ah.

1290
01:37:58,917 --> 01:38:00,250
Smile, you cunt!

1291
01:38:28,041 --> 01:38:31,166
The first disappointing
confrontation with my mother

1292
01:38:31,166 --> 01:38:32,375
was when I was nine.

1293
01:38:34,542 --> 01:38:39,208
I learned how to recover from
that over the next few years.

1294
01:38:39,208 --> 01:38:42,333
Becoming good at art and
developing a strong interest

1295
01:38:42,333 --> 01:38:43,208
in music.

1296
01:38:47,250 --> 01:38:50,667
By then I'd kind of developed
a personal look.

1297
01:39:17,500 --> 01:39:22,208
I had my guitar and
that was my total companion

1298
01:39:22,208 --> 01:39:23,583
in its little case.

1299
01:39:26,291 --> 01:39:29,208
And then there came this
invitation to go to Germany,

1300
01:39:29,208 --> 01:39:32,875
because Pat's husband
had been stationed there

1301
01:39:32,875 --> 01:39:35,709
with the Canadian Air Force.

1302
01:39:38,834 --> 01:39:40,041
He came over to visit us
in Germany

1303
01:39:40,041 --> 01:39:43,291
and he was just so keen
on the guitar.

1304
01:39:43,291 --> 01:39:45,834
And we said, if he wanted
to bring the guitar with him

1305
01:39:45,834 --> 01:39:47,125
to practice, he could.

1306
01:39:47,125 --> 01:39:49,500
Because really and truly,
like everybody else,

1307
01:39:49,500 --> 01:39:50,083
we didn't take it seriously.

1308
01:39:52,291 --> 01:39:55,917
We're on an army camp
and I didn't fit.

1309
01:39:57,500 --> 01:40:01,166
And it was suggested to me
that I should get a hair cut.

1310
01:40:03,583 --> 01:40:06,291
I said, "I'd rather not,
I like my hair the way it is."

1311
01:40:11,250 --> 01:40:13,667
My mother put on this face
like,

1312
01:40:13,667 --> 01:40:16,125
"Dare to defy me."

1313
01:40:16,125 --> 01:40:18,083
And I thought,
"I don't like you.

1314
01:40:19,041 --> 01:40:21,166
"You don't want me
anyway.

1315
01:40:21,166 --> 01:40:24,000
"And now you really
don't want me the way I am."

1316
01:40:30,333 --> 01:40:33,000
Rose said, "Please, do this."

1317
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:34,667
Just to keep everybody happy.

1318
01:40:41,583 --> 01:40:42,333
So they gave me
a crew cut.

1319
01:40:47,083 --> 01:40:48,542
It made me cry.

1320
01:40:54,417 --> 01:40:57,291
And a couple of days later,
my brother came in,

1321
01:40:57,291 --> 01:41:01,500
my half brother and sat
on the guitar

1322
01:41:01,500 --> 01:41:03,458
and broke the neck
clean in half.

1323
01:41:06,375 --> 01:41:10,291
It was like, everything was
done to demolish

1324
01:41:10,291 --> 01:41:11,750
my personality

1325
01:41:12,458 --> 01:41:14,291
and make me null and void.

1326
01:41:16,208 --> 01:41:18,583
I was full of hatred,
anger and resentment.

1327
01:41:20,917 --> 01:41:23,959
So I thought, "Okay.

1328
01:41:27,375 --> 01:41:29,583
"That's the last time
I trust anyone."

1329
01:41:39,500 --> 01:41:41,250
Things became
very difficult with George

1330
01:41:41,250 --> 01:41:43,792
and I, and we decided
it would be better

1331
01:41:43,792 --> 01:41:46,959
if we parted.

1332
01:41:46,959 --> 01:41:49,709
I heard that Eric
was on a tour.

1333
01:41:49,709 --> 01:41:50,250
I went to surprise him.

1334
01:41:52,834 --> 01:41:54,959
Our relationship
hadn't been completed.

1335
01:41:54,959 --> 01:41:58,667
There was clearly more to it
than just snatched meetings.

1336
01:42:00,750 --> 01:42:03,166
I hadn't seen her
for all those years.

1337
01:42:03,917 --> 01:42:06,500
Pattie must have known

1338
01:42:06,500 --> 01:42:08,750
she was getting involved
with someone

1339
01:42:08,750 --> 01:42:10,333
who was pretty unstable.

1340
01:42:12,375 --> 01:42:16,625
As much as I could love
someone, I loved her.

1341
01:42:18,041 --> 01:42:20,291
I was not just screwed up,
but you know,

1342
01:42:20,291 --> 01:42:22,291
a full blown addict by then.

1343
01:42:25,208 --> 01:42:29,417
Maybe I never got beyond
just wanting her

1344
01:42:29,417 --> 01:42:30,625
from a distance.

1345
01:42:32,583 --> 01:42:34,875
We would do all sorts
of things together

1346
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:38,667
and he would say,
he loves me.

1347
01:42:38,667 --> 01:42:41,542
But he wanted
to drink all the time

1348
01:42:41,542 --> 01:42:44,166
and it just increased.

1349
01:42:44,166 --> 01:42:46,792
But then when he had
too much to drink

1350
01:42:46,792 --> 01:42:48,291
or became really seriously
unpleasant

1351
01:42:48,291 --> 01:42:51,417
and I felt that he didn't love
me either.

1352
01:42:51,417 --> 01:42:53,500
So this was really ghastly

1353
01:42:53,500 --> 01:42:55,500
until maybe the next day

1354
01:42:55,500 --> 01:42:57,083
and he'd be loving again.

1355
01:42:57,667 --> 01:42:59,625
He was quite scary,

1356
01:42:59,625 --> 01:43:02,959
and he would scream
at me across hotel lobbies.

1357
01:43:04,500 --> 01:43:07,041
He was just listening
to a different drummer

1358
01:43:07,041 --> 01:43:08,375
when he was that drunk.

1359
01:43:13,583 --> 01:43:15,125
Mind if I have
a drink?

1360
01:43:28,709 --> 01:43:30,917
Tell you what, you want
to come on stage

1361
01:43:30,917 --> 01:43:34,166
and talk, you want to come up
here and talk about it?

1362
01:43:34,166 --> 01:43:35,458
I'll fucking have you,
I'll tell ya.

1363
01:43:40,083 --> 01:43:43,041
It got to be a point
of wondering,

1364
01:43:43,041 --> 01:43:44,917
you know, each show,
what's going to happen

1365
01:43:44,917 --> 01:43:48,250
tomorrow night?

1366
01:43:48,250 --> 01:43:50,917
And I used to ask Carl,
"What's up with this guy?

1367
01:43:50,917 --> 01:43:52,709
"They told me
he was a nice guy."

1368
01:43:52,709 --> 01:43:55,166
You know, I have
to lock my doors every night

1369
01:43:55,166 --> 01:43:57,709
and hide from this guy,
'cause he's out of his mind.

1370
01:44:34,333 --> 01:44:38,333
When I realized
what I said,

1371
01:44:38,333 --> 01:44:42,000
I just was so disgusted
with myself.

1372
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:43,834
I was so fucking angry.

1373
01:44:46,166 --> 01:44:48,625
And I thought I needed
to apologize to the people

1374
01:44:48,625 --> 01:44:50,542
I said that to.

1375
01:44:50,542 --> 01:44:52,417
Because it was so shocking
and unforgivable

1376
01:44:52,417 --> 01:44:56,625
and I was so ashamed
of who I was.

1377
01:44:56,625 --> 01:44:58,875
I was becoming
not only chauvinistic

1378
01:44:58,875 --> 01:45:01,500
but fascistic too.

1379
01:45:01,500 --> 01:45:03,500
I was a kind of
a semi racist

1380
01:45:04,625 --> 01:45:06,333
which didn't make sense.

1381
01:45:07,917 --> 01:45:10,875
I mean, half of my friends
were black.

1382
01:45:10,875 --> 01:45:13,125
I dated black women
and listened to black music

1383
01:45:13,125 --> 01:45:16,083
and championed black music.

1384
01:45:17,250 --> 01:45:20,041
But it didn't matter at all.

1385
01:45:22,291 --> 01:45:24,291
They could have all gone
to the wall as long as I had

1386
01:45:24,291 --> 01:45:25,458
the bottle.

1387
01:45:25,458 --> 01:45:29,792
I hated everything.
Everything.

1388
01:45:34,417 --> 01:45:37,792
I thought I had
this dream, you know?

1389
01:45:37,792 --> 01:45:41,083
About the perfect band,
you know?

1390
01:45:41,083 --> 01:45:45,250
I the...
And the virtuoso

1391
01:45:45,250 --> 01:45:46,375
of each instrument,
you know?

1392
01:45:46,375 --> 01:45:48,000
I thought I was
a virtuoso.

1393
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,166
My instrument,

1394
01:45:50,166 --> 01:45:53,375
thought Jack and Ginger
was the virtuoso

1395
01:45:53,375 --> 01:45:57,667
and, uh, we all thought that.

1396
01:45:57,667 --> 01:46:00,250
I'm sad that it
actually ever happen, really.

1397
01:46:02,083 --> 01:46:04,333
Because...

1398
01:46:04,333 --> 01:46:06,291
I mean, I wouldn't want
to change anything

1399
01:46:06,291 --> 01:46:07,834
but probably would've
done better

1400
01:46:07,834 --> 01:46:09,875
to stay with John Mayall

1401
01:46:11,542 --> 01:46:14,750
and then because, it was that
Cream thing,

1402
01:46:14,750 --> 01:46:15,834
it was all like...

1403
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:19,750
It was just aggressive
music.

1404
01:46:28,291 --> 01:46:30,667
It's not even
worth it, is it?

1405
01:46:30,667 --> 01:46:34,166
Just fucking do it.
She's got another stash.

1406
01:46:36,375 --> 01:46:39,083
Eric was a very
sad person.

1407
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:41,500
Very, very sad.

1408
01:46:48,208 --> 01:46:51,000
He was a broken man

1409
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:53,333
who can't cope,
who can hardly speak.

1410
01:46:55,250 --> 01:46:57,875
He started having seizures

1411
01:46:57,875 --> 01:47:02,125
and then the doctor told me,
unless he stopped drinking,

1412
01:47:02,125 --> 01:47:02,542
he would die.

1413
01:47:32,750 --> 01:47:35,709
The only reason
I didn't commit suicide

1414
01:47:35,709 --> 01:47:37,542
was the fact that I wouldn't
be able to drink any more

1415
01:47:37,542 --> 01:47:38,959
if I was dead.

1416
01:47:40,792 --> 01:47:44,792
My capacity for the love
of alcohol was boundless.

1417
01:47:46,125 --> 01:47:48,458
So I drank and drank
and drank.

1418
01:47:48,458 --> 01:47:49,667
Again and again
and again.

1419
01:48:31,834 --> 01:48:34,458
When making records
during the drunken period.

1420
01:48:34,458 --> 01:48:36,458
I personally find it difficult
to listen to,

1421
01:48:36,458 --> 01:48:37,917
because I can hear
how drunk I am.

1422
01:48:40,667 --> 01:48:43,333
All of these albums
have,

1423
01:48:43,333 --> 01:48:45,875
elements where
it's moved up a notch

1424
01:48:47,500 --> 01:48:50,709
and I've been given
the chance to sing and play

1425
01:48:50,709 --> 01:48:51,792
in a way that I hadn't before.

1426
01:48:57,417 --> 01:49:00,000
I went off to Moscow,

1427
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,500
a lot of things took place
while I was there.

1428
01:49:02,500 --> 01:49:04,750
I ended up having
an affair

1429
01:49:04,750 --> 01:49:05,834
with the studio
manageress,

1430
01:49:05,834 --> 01:49:10,083
George Martin's
Air Studios in Montserrat.

1431
01:49:10,083 --> 01:49:12,125
A lovely woman
called Yvonne,

1432
01:49:12,125 --> 01:49:15,125
very attractive lady,
very funny, very witty.

1433
01:49:15,125 --> 01:49:17,375
And I got a letter from her

1434
01:49:17,375 --> 01:49:20,291
saying she was pregnant
with a daughter

1435
01:49:20,291 --> 01:49:23,333
and that she didn't have
any expectations from me,

1436
01:49:23,333 --> 01:49:25,083
she was going to try
and raise the child

1437
01:49:25,083 --> 01:49:26,709
in her existing marriage.

1438
01:49:26,709 --> 01:49:29,583
And I knew I just
wasn't capable of having

1439
01:49:29,583 --> 01:49:30,667
a relationship.

1440
01:49:31,250 --> 01:49:34,208
♪ When, when ♪

1441
01:49:34,208 --> 01:49:36,333
Okay, let's just
do it more acapella.

1442
01:49:36,333 --> 01:49:38,750
One, two , three, four.

1443
01:49:38,750 --> 01:49:41,792
♪ When I see those big,
brown eyes ♪

1444
01:49:41,792 --> 01:49:44,375
♪ That's when I take my cue ♪

1445
01:49:44,375 --> 01:49:46,375
♪ Don't take us but
a few minutes to get ♪

1446
01:49:46,375 --> 01:49:49,291
♪ A message through ♪

1447
01:49:49,291 --> 01:49:51,625
♪ I talk to you,
you talk to me ♪

1448
01:49:51,625 --> 01:49:54,125
♪ I keep talking to
the wrong person ♪

1449
01:49:54,125 --> 01:49:56,917
♪ It don't take but
a few minutes ♪

1450
01:49:56,917 --> 01:49:57,500
♪ To get a man's... ♪

1451
01:49:57,500 --> 01:50:00,667
Understand each other.

1452
01:50:00,667 --> 01:50:01,875
Am I gonna
remember that?

1453
01:50:03,542 --> 01:50:06,250
Well, you wrote it.

1454
01:50:06,250 --> 01:50:10,291
I was in absolute
denial about my alcoholism.

1455
01:50:10,291 --> 01:50:13,792
I had gone to the best
treatment centre in the world

1456
01:50:13,792 --> 01:50:15,417
but I got into dope again

1457
01:50:15,417 --> 01:50:18,083
and alcohol and blow.

1458
01:50:18,083 --> 01:50:20,667
And I was trying
to hide it from everybody.

1459
01:50:21,667 --> 01:50:24,667
Some people say
you have to live the blues

1460
01:50:24,667 --> 01:50:25,959
to sing the blues.

1461
01:50:25,959 --> 01:50:27,083
During that period
of time in your life

1462
01:50:27,083 --> 01:50:30,750
where you were involved
with drugs and alcohol,

1463
01:50:30,750 --> 01:50:32,959
did you do that
to justify that point of view?

1464
01:50:32,959 --> 01:50:35,834
No, you know, I was
just a party animal.

1465
01:50:35,834 --> 01:50:37,041
A fun seeking boy.

1466
01:50:40,458 --> 01:50:42,792
And then I was in Milan,
touring and a promoter

1467
01:50:42,792 --> 01:50:45,417
then she introduced
me to Lory Del Santo.

1468
01:50:47,709 --> 01:50:49,792
I was just smitten
with her

1469
01:50:49,792 --> 01:50:52,959
and decided I'm going
to start my life from scratch

1470
01:50:52,959 --> 01:50:56,000
here in Italy without any idea
where it was going to go.

1471
01:50:58,458 --> 01:51:00,709
He was
a complete asshole.

1472
01:51:00,709 --> 01:51:03,792
There was no relationship,
and I knew it wouldn't work.

1473
01:51:03,792 --> 01:51:07,041
And I felt so sad that
he and I split up

1474
01:51:07,041 --> 01:51:09,125
because of
that ridiculous idea.

1475
01:51:09,125 --> 01:51:13,041
But he was a sick person
and he obviously believed it.

1476
01:51:14,291 --> 01:51:15,333
We tried to make
a go of it.

1477
01:51:15,333 --> 01:51:17,500
But she didn't know
who she was dealing with,

1478
01:51:17,500 --> 01:51:21,333
I was not grounded in any way.

1479
01:51:21,333 --> 01:51:24,041
I said, "Well, look, I don't
think this is working.

1480
01:51:24,041 --> 01:51:26,417
"I want to go back
to my wife."

1481
01:51:28,166 --> 01:51:30,458
And she told me,
"Well, that's not really

1482
01:51:30,458 --> 01:51:32,041
"good news, because
I'm pregnant."

1483
01:51:48,166 --> 01:51:49,959
Mmm.

1484
01:51:53,667 --> 01:51:55,458
Conor was the first thing
that happened to me

1485
01:51:55,458 --> 01:51:57,625
in my entire life

1486
01:51:57,625 --> 01:51:59,667
that really got to my core

1487
01:51:59,667 --> 01:52:03,625
and told me,
time to grow up.

1488
01:52:10,333 --> 01:52:12,041
Strong man.

1489
01:52:12,041 --> 01:52:14,041
I could not fuck around
any longer.

1490
01:52:15,875 --> 01:52:16,917
I could not damage this.

1491
01:52:21,583 --> 01:52:21,917
Up.

1492
01:52:25,375 --> 01:52:27,667
Catch that.

1493
01:52:41,834 --> 01:52:44,000
Well that came about
quite out of the blue.

1494
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:47,750
I met this young lady
and bang it happened.

1495
01:52:47,750 --> 01:52:49,792
It was like the baby
was looking for parents too.

1496
01:52:50,792 --> 01:52:51,875
You know,
to give it life.

1497
01:52:52,750 --> 01:52:55,834
And he's great,
it's wonderful.

1498
01:52:57,542 --> 01:53:00,375
Yes, just you know,

1499
01:53:00,375 --> 01:53:02,208
grow up happily
with my son.

1500
01:53:21,625 --> 01:53:23,959
I got to the place where
I couldn't live without

1501
01:53:23,959 --> 01:53:25,875
a drink and I couldn't
live with it.

1502
01:53:26,917 --> 01:53:27,792
When I tried to stop
on my own,

1503
01:53:27,792 --> 01:53:29,750
my withdrawals were so hard

1504
01:53:29,750 --> 01:53:32,583
that I had a grand
mal seizure.

1505
01:53:35,458 --> 01:53:37,834
I was on my own
in the house one day.

1506
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:43,000
And I got down on my knees
and prayed.

1507
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:46,959
Was a really clumsy experience
but it was born out of real

1508
01:53:46,959 --> 01:53:49,208
desperation.

1509
01:53:49,208 --> 01:53:51,000
And I said, "Just
let me have some peace."

1510
01:54:10,709 --> 01:54:12,333
What effect has
fatherhood had on you?

1511
01:54:12,333 --> 01:54:15,834
A very stabilizing
effect because you suddenly

1512
01:54:15,834 --> 01:54:17,500
have to stop being
so selfish, you know?

1513
01:54:17,500 --> 01:54:20,041
You have to think more about
the life of someone else.

1514
01:54:20,041 --> 01:54:22,333
It is like a blood thing.

1515
01:54:22,333 --> 01:54:25,083
It's a tie for the rest
of your life.

1516
01:54:25,083 --> 01:54:26,667
And I love him dearly

1517
01:54:26,667 --> 01:54:30,375
and really he's made
a massive change in me.

1518
01:54:51,083 --> 01:54:54,500
Lory and Conor
were staying in New York

1519
01:54:54,500 --> 01:54:57,875
in this place called the
Galleria on 57th street.

1520
01:54:57,875 --> 01:55:00,333
And I was in New York as well.

1521
01:55:00,333 --> 01:55:04,458
So I took Conor to see
the circus on Long Island.

1522
01:55:11,041 --> 01:55:12,583
We had a great time.

1523
01:55:17,041 --> 01:55:19,208
The following day, I was going
to take Conor for lunch

1524
01:55:19,208 --> 01:55:20,208
maybe on my own.

1525
01:55:20,208 --> 01:55:22,709
It was about eleven
in the morning.

1526
01:55:22,709 --> 01:55:25,625
I was getting ready to go
up to 57th Street.

1527
01:55:26,583 --> 01:55:29,333
Then I got a phone call
from Lory,

1528
01:55:29,959 --> 01:55:32,500
just kind of screaming.

1529
01:55:34,083 --> 01:55:36,542
She said, "He's dead."

1530
01:55:36,542 --> 01:55:38,125
I thought, "What's she
talking about?"

1531
01:55:38,125 --> 01:55:40,083
She said, "He fell out
the window."

1532
01:55:44,417 --> 01:55:47,083
There couldn't
have been a bigger nightmare.

1533
01:55:47,083 --> 01:55:49,250
Before anyone could stop him,
four-year-old Conor Clapton

1534
01:55:49,250 --> 01:55:52,583
had plunged to his death
from the 53rd floor

1535
01:55:52,583 --> 01:55:54,000
of the Galleria building.

1536
01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:55,792
He made it past his mother
and three other adults

1537
01:55:55,792 --> 01:55:58,208
who were in the apartment

1538
01:55:58,208 --> 01:56:00,959
to a window that had just
been cleaned and left open.

1539
01:56:00,959 --> 01:56:02,000
There was nothing
to break his fall

1540
01:56:02,000 --> 01:56:05,542
except the roof
of an adjoining building.

1541
01:56:05,542 --> 01:56:06,959
It's just a tragic accident,
that the child apparently

1542
01:56:06,959 --> 01:56:10,959
wandered into...
Into the bedroom,

1543
01:56:10,959 --> 01:56:13,125
wandered close
to the window

1544
01:56:13,125 --> 01:56:18,709
and just by the fact that
the window ledge was low.

1545
01:56:18,709 --> 01:56:21,250
It appears that he just
tragically fell out.

1546
01:56:33,500 --> 01:56:37,208
I felt like I stepped
back out of myself.

1547
01:56:37,208 --> 01:56:40,417
I couldn't grasp it,
I could not grasp it.

1548
01:56:42,959 --> 01:56:47,125
And I went with the body
down to the nearest hospital.

1549
01:56:48,417 --> 01:56:49,875
I went to see him

1550
01:56:50,583 --> 01:56:52,458
and I said goodbye to him.

1551
01:56:55,041 --> 01:56:56,709
And I did lose faith.

1552
01:57:22,625 --> 01:57:24,834
It was horrific.

1553
01:57:24,834 --> 01:57:27,375
I just couldn't think
about that little boy.

1554
01:57:28,291 --> 01:57:29,458
This little soul.

1555
01:57:38,208 --> 01:57:39,875
Eric was a fighter.

1556
01:57:39,875 --> 01:57:42,375
But I know that

1557
01:57:42,375 --> 01:57:45,250
as well as myself,
a lot of his friends

1558
01:57:45,250 --> 01:57:47,041
were very concerned
about him,

1559
01:57:47,041 --> 01:57:51,166
his sobriety,
he was on his own.

1560
01:58:05,291 --> 01:58:08,166
Italians had gone home
and Hurtwood was quiet

1561
01:58:08,166 --> 01:58:08,333
and it was just me there.

1562
01:58:10,291 --> 01:58:11,208
With my thoughts.

1563
01:58:13,667 --> 01:58:16,208
I started opening all my
letters of condolence.

1564
01:58:16,208 --> 01:58:19,291
Thousands and thousands
of them.

1565
01:58:20,250 --> 01:58:23,208
I opened one and it was
from Conor.

1566
01:58:27,083 --> 01:58:29,375
And it had been posted
weeks before from Milan.

1567
01:58:34,375 --> 01:58:36,667
And I realized if I can go
through this and stay sober

1568
01:58:36,667 --> 01:58:38,542
then anyone can.

1569
01:58:40,417 --> 01:58:42,583
And I suddenly became
aware of the fact

1570
01:58:42,583 --> 01:58:44,792
that there was a way to turn
this dreadful tragedy

1571
01:58:44,792 --> 01:58:48,417
into something positive.

1572
01:58:48,417 --> 01:58:52,458
That I would consider living
my life from this point on

1573
01:58:52,458 --> 01:58:53,417
to honour the memory
of my son.

1574
01:59:01,667 --> 01:59:03,875
I got hold of the little
Spanish guitar that I had

1575
01:59:03,875 --> 01:59:04,834
lying around.

1576
01:59:04,834 --> 01:59:06,166
And I had it with me
the whole time.

1577
01:59:06,166 --> 01:59:10,125
From the minute
I woke up.

1578
01:59:10,125 --> 01:59:14,709
And for the rest of that year,
I just played and played

1579
01:59:14,709 --> 01:59:16,834
to stop from facing
this situation.

1580
01:59:25,125 --> 01:59:28,000
[Tears In Heaven
playing]

1581
01:59:52,333 --> 01:59:56,583
♪ Would you know my name? ♪

1582
01:59:58,750 --> 02:00:02,583
♪ If I saw you in heaven ♪

1583
02:00:04,166 --> 02:00:09,166
♪ Would it be the same? ♪

1584
02:00:11,250 --> 02:00:14,375
♪ If I saw you in heaven ♪

1585
02:00:17,917 --> 02:00:21,166
♪ I must be strong ♪

1586
02:00:24,125 --> 02:00:27,709
♪ And carry on ♪

1587
02:00:27,709 --> 02:00:32,667
♪ 'Cause I know
I don't belong ♪

1588
02:00:34,166 --> 02:00:37,041
♪ Here in heaven ♪

1589
02:00:48,333 --> 02:00:51,500
♪ Time can bring you down ♪

1590
02:00:51,500 --> 02:00:55,041
♪ Time can bend your knees ♪

1591
02:01:00,583 --> 02:01:03,792
♪ Time can break your heart ♪

1592
02:01:03,792 --> 02:01:08,917
♪ Have you begging please,
begging please ♪

1593
02:01:15,458 --> 02:01:16,834
Music saved me.

1594
02:01:19,291 --> 02:01:21,709
Just as it had when
I was a boy of nine.

1595
02:01:23,500 --> 02:01:25,125
It took the pain away.

1596
02:01:27,250 --> 02:01:31,291
And I wrote these songs
for myself

1597
02:01:31,291 --> 02:01:33,750
because I was feeling
terrible inside.

1598
02:01:37,709 --> 02:01:40,500
♪ Beyond the door ♪

1599
02:01:44,041 --> 02:01:46,458
♪ There's peace I'm sure ♪

1600
02:01:46,458 --> 02:01:52,166
♪ And I know there'll be
no more ♪

1601
02:01:53,667 --> 02:01:56,041
♪  Tears in heaven ♪

1602
02:01:56,041 --> 02:01:58,959
And the Grammy goes to
Tears in Heaven,

1603
02:01:58,959 --> 02:02:00,458
Eric Clapton.

1604
02:02:03,709 --> 02:02:06,250
And the song
of the year is,

1605
02:02:06,250 --> 02:02:09,625
Eric Clapton and
Will Jennings, songwriters

1606
02:02:09,625 --> 02:02:10,625
for  Tears in Heaven.

1607
02:02:10,625 --> 02:02:12,834
And the album
of the year is...

1608
02:02:12,834 --> 02:02:14,959
♪ 'Cause I know... ♪

1609
02:02:14,959 --> 02:02:16,750
Unplugged,
Eric Clapton.

1610
02:02:18,959 --> 02:02:23,125
As much as I'm proud of
what I've achieved musically.

1611
02:02:23,125 --> 02:02:25,166
It's all dust really.

1612
02:02:25,166 --> 02:02:28,041
At some point, there will
be people who have no idea

1613
02:02:28,041 --> 02:02:29,458
what I did and who I am.

1614
02:02:29,458 --> 02:02:32,208
And I'm quite comfortable
about that.

1615
02:02:35,333 --> 02:02:35,458
Thank you.

1616
02:02:38,500 --> 02:02:42,709
Finally, me and my daughter,
Ruth

1617
02:02:42,709 --> 02:02:45,250
were able to begin
our own relationship,

1618
02:02:45,834 --> 02:02:47,250
which was wonderful.

1619
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:50,166
And it took me
to a place

1620
02:02:50,166 --> 02:02:52,250
where I was able to have
a great relationship with Ruth

1621
02:02:52,250 --> 02:02:56,125
and also become available

1622
02:02:56,125 --> 02:02:58,500
to have a relationship
with another human being,

1623
02:02:58,500 --> 02:03:01,250
Now see that's, that was the
first time I felt like that

1624
02:03:01,250 --> 02:03:02,625
in my entire life.

1625
02:03:07,959 --> 02:03:09,250
I have a brochure
to show you quickly called

1626
02:03:09,250 --> 02:03:12,875
Crossroads centre at Antigua.

1627
02:03:12,875 --> 02:03:15,208
But this... This is
an Eric Clapton project,

1628
02:03:15,208 --> 02:03:16,375
what is it?

1629
02:03:16,375 --> 02:03:18,208
For the last three years,
I've been trying to start

1630
02:03:18,208 --> 02:03:19,041
a treatment centre
in Antigua.

1631
02:03:19,041 --> 02:03:21,208
For addiction?

1632
02:03:21,208 --> 02:03:23,291
For addiction to drugs
and alcohol, yeah.

1633
02:03:23,291 --> 02:03:25,625
So are you doing it
for people who live

1634
02:03:25,625 --> 02:03:26,875
on the island?

1635
02:03:26,875 --> 02:03:29,000
I'm primarily doing it
for people that have no money.

1636
02:03:29,000 --> 02:03:30,667
That need treatment.

1637
02:03:30,667 --> 02:03:36,125
There's 100 guitars here,
some of them were with me

1638
02:03:36,125 --> 02:03:38,709
through some really
extreme times.

1639
02:03:38,709 --> 02:03:41,375
But I want them to raise a lot
of money for the foundation

1640
02:03:41,375 --> 02:03:44,333
and to carry the message
of the centre.

1641
02:03:44,333 --> 02:03:46,917
Five hundred
thousand out there.

1642
02:03:46,917 --> 02:03:50,166
Six hundred thousand I'm
offered. 700,000, 800,000.

1643
02:03:50,166 --> 02:03:52,792
Eight hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.

1644
02:03:52,792 --> 02:03:54,000
And sold.

1645
02:03:55,875 --> 02:03:58,083
Music has given me
a great life.

1646
02:03:58,083 --> 02:04:01,750
That's never betrayed me,
it's never gonna let me down.

1647
02:04:01,750 --> 02:04:04,750
But if it doesn't have
the same value as knowing

1648
02:04:04,750 --> 02:04:07,750
that there are people out
there that I've helped

1649
02:04:07,750 --> 02:04:09,709
get sober through
the treatment centre.

1650
02:04:18,125 --> 02:04:20,750
Let's bring on Hubert Sumlin.

1651
02:04:22,959 --> 02:04:23,750
Please welcome Buddy Guy.

1652
02:04:27,542 --> 02:04:30,166
Put your hands together
for the king of the blues.

1653
02:04:30,166 --> 02:04:31,291
B.B. King.

1654
02:04:35,166 --> 02:04:38,208
If he hadn't heard
and liked the blues.

1655
02:04:38,208 --> 02:04:40,458
He could just about about
retiring from

1656
02:04:40,458 --> 02:04:42,542
the building trade now.

1657
02:04:42,542 --> 02:04:45,291
Having spent his life,
laying tiles like his father.

1658
02:04:47,875 --> 02:04:51,291
If you guide yourself
into the worst aspects

1659
02:04:51,291 --> 02:04:53,458
of life which he undoubtedly
did.

1660
02:04:53,458 --> 02:04:55,250
Nobody pushed him down
to the depth

1661
02:04:55,250 --> 02:04:58,291
that he felt he reached
at several points.

1662
02:04:58,291 --> 02:04:59,667
And nobody has got
him out.

1663
02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:07,250
Now, I mean that is a very
powerful personality.

1664
02:05:08,834 --> 02:05:11,166
It doesn't necessarily
have to show itself

1665
02:05:11,166 --> 02:05:14,083
in company.

1666
02:05:14,083 --> 02:05:16,667
But it must be there
for him to have survived.

1667
02:05:19,458 --> 02:05:22,208
And then I met Melia
and fell in love.

1668
02:05:23,208 --> 02:05:25,500
She's everything
I ever wanted.

1669
02:05:25,500 --> 02:05:27,083
She's my soul mate.

1670
02:05:27,083 --> 02:05:29,333
She's a beautiful woman,
she's a great friend.

1671
02:05:29,333 --> 02:05:32,250
And she's a fantastic mother.

1672
02:05:33,375 --> 02:05:35,333
What more could
a man ever want?

1673
02:05:37,750 --> 02:05:41,000
Hello, this is Sophie.

1674
02:05:41,000 --> 02:05:44,291
Here she is.
And this is Daddy.

1675
02:05:46,834 --> 02:05:49,458
And this is Ella.

1676
02:05:51,041 --> 02:05:53,583
Here is Mommy.

1677
02:05:54,250 --> 02:05:55,750
And here is me.

1678
02:05:55,750 --> 02:05:57,166
Hi.

1679
02:06:05,500 --> 02:06:08,041
It's everything I did
and all the mistakes

1680
02:06:08,041 --> 02:06:10,458
I made and everything
that brought me here.

1681
02:06:10,458 --> 02:06:13,375
And it couldn't me
much better, really.

1682
02:06:16,667 --> 02:06:19,542
I finally found the family
I always wanted.

1683
02:06:20,250 --> 02:06:22,375
And always needed.

1684
02:06:22,375 --> 02:06:25,959
And now here they are,
and I'm one of them.

1685
02:06:25,959 --> 02:06:28,125
My life is completely full.

1686
02:06:29,583 --> 02:06:32,166
And I would like to say
a toast

1687
02:06:32,667 --> 02:06:33,834
to the Boss.

1688
02:06:36,750 --> 02:06:38,834
Give me a little
talking music, will you?

1689
02:06:38,834 --> 02:06:40,166
Robert, please.

1690
02:06:41,417 --> 02:06:43,417
Keep it down,
keep it down.

1691
02:06:43,417 --> 02:06:46,417
Ladies and gentlemen,
for you, I know that you know

1692
02:06:46,417 --> 02:06:50,125
that Eric is a great artist.

1693
02:06:50,125 --> 02:06:51,375
He flew all the way
to California

1694
02:06:51,375 --> 02:06:54,834
to make my first CD.

1695
02:06:54,834 --> 02:06:58,041
Not only did he do that,
he's done so many things

1696
02:06:58,041 --> 02:07:01,333
for a lot of us,
including this guy.

1697
02:07:01,333 --> 02:07:01,917
So I'd like you
to know...

1698
02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:08,458
I'm gonna shut up in a minute,
but I'd like you to know.

1699
02:07:08,458 --> 02:07:10,375
That I've been around
the world,

1700
02:07:10,375 --> 02:07:12,667
I've played 90 different
countries around the world,

1701
02:07:12,667 --> 02:07:13,291
and I've met many people,

1702
02:07:13,291 --> 02:07:14,875
kings and queens.

1703
02:07:14,875 --> 02:07:21,417
But I've never met a better
man, a more gracious man

1704
02:07:21,417 --> 02:07:24,291
than my friend, I like to call
him my friend, Eric Clapton.

1705
02:07:27,875 --> 02:07:29,917
So I say to all of you...

1706
02:07:34,166 --> 02:07:36,083
May I live forever...

1707
02:07:42,500 --> 02:07:45,709
But may you live
forever and a day.

1708
02:07:46,959 --> 02:07:49,959
'Cause I'd hate to be here
when you pass away.

1709
02:07:52,542 --> 02:07:55,000
And when they lay me out
to rest...

1710
02:07:56,250 --> 02:07:58,792
As I mentioned,
I'm 81 now.

1711
02:07:58,792 --> 02:08:02,083
When they lay me out
to rest, may the last voices

1712
02:08:02,083 --> 02:08:03,583
I hear be yours.

1713
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:07,709
Saying while we was alive
we was friends.

1714
02:08:19,291 --> 02:08:20,917
[Mainline Florida
playing]

1715
02:08:35,792 --> 02:08:39,542
♪ My heart was leaping
in the sun ♪

1716
02:08:39,542 --> 02:08:43,834
♪ My friends all say
that you're the one ♪

1717
02:08:43,834 --> 02:08:47,583
♪ Let me get this
one thing very clear ♪

1718
02:08:47,583 --> 02:08:52,208
♪ There ain't enough
going on down here ♪

1719
02:08:52,208 --> 02:08:56,417
♪ Mainline Florida, oh say ♪

1720
02:09:00,333 --> 02:09:05,250
♪ Mainline Florida, okay ♪

1721
02:09:16,834 --> 02:09:20,834
♪ Her arms were open
open wide ♪

1722
02:09:20,834 --> 02:09:24,792
♪ Her invitation's
a changing tide ♪

1723
02:09:24,792 --> 02:09:29,667
♪ I could remember
not long ago ♪

1724
02:09:29,667 --> 02:09:34,458
♪ We took a cruise
down on Hotel Row ♪

1725
02:09:34,458 --> 02:09:39,125
♪ Mainline Florida, oh say ♪

1726
02:09:42,333 --> 02:09:47,250
♪ Mainline Florida, okay ♪

1727
02:10:54,834 --> 02:10:57,917
♪ Her arms were open
open wide ♪

1728
02:10:57,917 --> 02:11:02,709
♪ Her invitation's
a changing tide ♪

1729
02:11:02,709 --> 02:11:06,583
♪ I could remember
not long ago ♪

1730
02:11:06,583 --> 02:11:11,333
♪ We took a cruise
down on Hotel Row ♪

1731
02:11:11,333 --> 02:11:16,291
♪ Mainline Florida, oh say ♪

1732
02:11:19,291 --> 02:11:24,250
♪ Mainline Florida, okay ♪

1733
02:11:25,500 --> 02:11:28,458
♪ Hey ♪