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Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert is a live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 13 January 1973 and released in September that year. The concerts, two on the same evening, were organised by Pete Townshend of the Who and marked a comeback by Clapton after two years of inactivity, broken only by his performance at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.
- 13 January 1973
- Blues rock
- 10 September 1973
- Rainbow Theatre, London
Jun 13, 2010 · Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood have performed together on numerous occasions in a number of incarnations, most notably as members of the brief-lived Blind Faith. They reunited at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, IL, as well as for several shows in February 2008 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.
Clapton introduces “Pearly Queen,” the second track on Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert to feature a Steve Winwood lead vocal. The performance is a bit loose-limbed, but holds fairly close to the original version as featured on Traffic’s second, self-titled album from 1968.
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Jan 13, 2023 · The two shows at the Rainbow may have proved a false dawn for Clapton, but they were recorded for a live album, released as Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert in 1973. Clapton eventually married Pattie Boyd in 1979. He didn’t kick booze until 1981, after being hospitalised in the US with bleeding ulcers, forcing him to cancel an entire tour.
Jan 13, 2024 · January 13, 2024. By. Paul Sexton. 'Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert' artwork - Courtesy: UMG. As his countless devotees remember, the early 1970s were a difficult time in the life of Eric Clapton ...
Rainbow Concert is a recording of monolithic melancholy. One might suppose that hard rock and despair are antithetical but Clapton, aided by Townshend, Winwood and Wood, as well as an able ...