Eric Clapton, his album he was never satisfied with

Also a champion like Eric Clapton He has experienced musically difficult periods. In the seventies, the British musician embarked on his solo career and, after the 1970 debut album of the same name, stuck a series of good success records that culminated in 1977 with the release of “SlowHand”which included songs that have become classics such as “Cocaine”, “Wonderful Tonight” And “Lay Down Sally”.

Of course, as admitted by Clapton himself, those years for him were also dotted with a triumph of drugs, during the realization of most of those records. Later he confessed that he could even remember which drugs he assumed by listening to his voice of the time. After “SlowHand”however, in 1978, there was “Backless”, An album that the eighty year old Clapton has no difficulty in defining as disappointing.

Eric Clapton he believed that the only thing he had a little grit was the song “Golden Ring”. “I got away with a single song, ‘Golden Ring’, which I think is the strongest on the album, I wrote it because I was tired of the general apathy of all the musicians involved, I thought: ‘Well, I put a song to it and, whether we like it or not, we will do it, they will learn, they will record it and we will put it on the record and this is everything!'”.

Despite the dissatisfaction of Eric Clapton “Backless”his sixth solo album reached eighth place in the sales ranking. While the single “Promises” He reached only 37th place in the ranking of individuals in the United Kingdom, had a greater success in the United States where he reached the ninth position.