The band that made Eric Clapton break things off with John Mayall: “Be so free, you could go anywhere”
Breaking out.
John Mayall
The band that helped birth Fleetwood Mac: “It was like being part of a fraternity”
The school for rock stars.
The album Eric Clapton said was better than anything Cream ever did: “The perfect session”
The true watermark album.
Eric Clapton reveals the first major turning point in his career: “Nurtured the gift I had”
We might think of the teenage pop star as a modern phenomenon. At least when it comes to real pop musicians that aren’t novelty acts, writing their own songs and being taken seriously as artists. The truth is that the vast majority of the great leaps forward that came from the 1960s were being created by folks in their late teens and early twenties.
What was the first band Fleetwood Mac’s bassist John McVie played in?
The beginning of remarkable journey.
The bandmate John Mayall called “totally unique”
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers was a fertile breeding ground for guitar talent.