Thursday 24 August 2017

Desert Island Discs: Eric Clapton

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: ERIC CLAPTON (128kbs-m4a/39mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 29th July 1990


The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the legendary figures of the British rock music scene - guitarist Eric Clapton. Once known, blasphemously, as 'God', with prolific graffiti announcing 'Eric Clapton is God', he played with, among others, the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith. Dealing successfully with years of alcohol and drug-related problems, he's still one of rock's superstars, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for music and his life of turmoil.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Purple Rain by Prince
Book: Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Guitar

Giacomo Puccini - Senza mamma (From Suor Angelica) [CBS]
Georges Bizet - Au Fond Du Temple Saint (From The Pearl Fishers) [HMV]
Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues [Blue Diamond]
Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home [Chess]
Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her [Tamla Motown]
Ray Charles - Hard Times [London]
Freddie King - I Love The Woman [Warner]
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain [Warner]

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