| 1966 | Recorded 'Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton' alongside John Mayall, a record so revered in the London blues scene that fans began scrawling 'Clapton is God' on walls across the city. |
| 1968 | Cream's 'Wheels of Fire' reached number one in the US, demonstrating how his fiery, improvisational guitar style could anchor a hard-rock power trio to commercial as well as critical heights. |
| 1970 | Formed Derek and the Dominos and recorded 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs', including the era-defining title track, one of rock's most recognizable guitar riffs. |
| 1992 | Performed an acoustic set for MTV Unplugged that produced six Grammy wins including Album of the Year, making 'Unplugged' one of the best-selling live records in history. |
| 1992 | Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Yardbirds, the first of three separate inductions that would make him the only artist so honored three times. |
| 2000 | Entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, his third induction, joining prior entries with The Yardbirds and Cream. |
| 2016 | Released 'I Still Do', his first non-holiday studio album in a decade, reaffirming his standing as a living blues-rock institution entering his fourth decade as a solo artist. |
| 2021 | Released 'The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions', an intimate acoustic set filmed at Cowdray House that offered fans a stripped-back performance during the pandemic era. |
| 2023 | Hosted the Crossroads Guitar Festival over two nights at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, gathering 41 acts including Santana, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr., Sheryl Crow, and ZZ Top. |
| 2024 | 'Meanwhile', his twenty-second solo studio album on Bushbranch/Surfdog Records, featured new collaborations with Van Morrison and Jeff Beck alongside six original tracks produced with longtime partner Simon Climie. |
In The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos, as well as through his prolific solo work, guitarist Eric Clapton has continually redefined his version of the blues. From the start, he caught audiences’ attention with his fiery, adventurous and precise playing. In late Sixties London, his worshippers advocated the slogan, “Clapton is God,” a phrase that originated with a now-famous piece of London graffiti. Over the next four decades, Clapton has done little to dampen that reputation and was named number four on Rolling Stone‘s 2003 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” In 2016, Clapton released I Still Do. Entering his fourth decade as a solo artist, Eric Clapton remains a living legend and is still as relevant and creative a force as there is popular music.