Original price of $24.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket now protected with paper backed polyester film. Inscribed on the recto of the half title page "To _____ & _____ - Any friend of Joan the Bone's a friend of mine. With many thanks & hopes you enjoy - Mike" Also signed on title page by author who also crossed out the title and wrote "Blues Power (preferred title)" and also drew a caricature of himself on lower half of title page that looks rather accurate.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Crossroads : The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

Publisher

Hyperion, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

078686074X

ISBN 13

9780786860746

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition, First Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Eric Clapton is the million-selling, Grammy Award-winning master of the blues guitar, whose fans summed up their admiration in a statement that appeared all over London's subway walls in 1965: "Eric Clapton is God."
For Clapton, fame has been won at great cost. During the early 1970s, he saved himself from heroin addiction, only to confront alcoholism a decade later. In recent years, tragedy has consumed him in ways that have proven even more devastating. In 1988 his marriage to Pattie Boyd - who inspired his 1970 masterwork "Layla" - ended in divorce. In 1990 he lost four of his closest associates and friends, including fellow blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, in a post-concert helicopter crash. And in 1991 his four-year-old son, Conor, fell to his death from a window in Manhattan, inspiring his heartbreaking tribute and #1 hit, "Tears in Heaven."
Complete with many rare or previously unpublished photographs, along with a comprehensive discography, Crossroads ranks as a full-scale, serious biography of a man who has transformed personal suffering and temporary defeats into lasting artistic victories.

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The perfect biography (RECORD COLLECTOR)

Faithful, factually accurate . . . Schumacher never succumbs to the temptation to focus entirely on the drugs and alcoholism, sticking devotedly to the music (MOJO)

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