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Wrong way to the top

Eric Clapton
Mar 23, 2010 Updated Mar 24, 2010

According to a fully written movie script which was sent to him for approval, Eric Clapton murdered both Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan in his quest for stardom.

Eric says that writing his autobiography cleared up many of the misunderstandings caused by drinking and drug-taking in his younger years. It also put paid to some outlandish  projects, including the bizarre script in which he was responsible for the deaths of Hendrix in 1970 and Vaughan in 1990.

Clapton tells Rolling Stone: "This guy wanted to make a movie about the fact that in order to be a virtuoso I had to kill all my idols."

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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's...

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