Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Eric Clapton returns to one of Billboard’s genre-specific rankings ...

British-born guitarist Eric Clapton is known for his rampaging rock songs and love of the blues. But not everything the all-timer has put to record is cut from the cloth of songs like “Cocaine” or ...

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist another No. 1. British guitarist Eric Clapton performing on stage at the ...

George Harrison helped inspire Eric Clapton's iconic track "Layla" in multiple ways (not just because he was married to ...

If there’s one song Eric Clapton probably wished he’d never written, it’s Tears In Heaven. A lament to his deceased son Conor, and also full of Clapton’s own self-loathing, it garnered Grammy Awards, ...

Eric Clapton disapproves of bands like U2 and Coldplay as they seem to put their fame before their music. The 61-year-old guitar legend told The Times: "Right now, the power of music sits with Simon ...

For a few years there, Dick Sims admitted recently, he "just lost the feel for music." But the Tulsa Sound musician remembered for his distinctive keyboard work on such Eric Clapton hits as "I Shot ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. His best songs like ...