Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 192. Chapters: Eric Clapton, Syd Barrett, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Russell Brand, David Gilmour, Pete Doherty, Brian Jones, Francis Dunnery, Roy Harper, Robert Pattinson, James Blunt, Mike Oldfield, Mick Taylor, Steven Wilson, Julian Lennon, Joan Armatrading, Bill Bailey, Fred Frith, Carl Barat, Jonny Greenwood, Peter Frampton, Peter Green (musician), Linda Lewis, Lonnie Donegan, Paul Weller, Plan B (musician), Justin Hayward, Matthew Bellamy, Barry Gibb, Terry Bickers, Jane Taylor (musician), Pop Levi, Jon Poole, David A. Stewart, Tommy Steele, Crispian Mills, Charlie Simpson, John Simm, Peter Asher, Tim Smith (musician), Newton Faulkner, James Bourne, Davey Graham, Maurice Gibb, Pete Atkin. Excerpt: Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 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 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla," recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads," recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 1929 d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer ( 1920 - 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, who was stepfather to Patricia Clapton and her brother Adrian, believing they were his parents and that his mot