Eric Berk Research Paper

Eric Clapton In the history of music there have been many influential people. There were the greats, the ones we still play on the radio, and there were there were the ones that we still talk about because they were honestly that bad. The man I am writing about today, Eric Clapton, was one of the greats. He is a legend in the music industry and out of it. He has been an inspiration to millions of people from the United States to the United Kingdom. He has touched millions of hearts with his music. Clapton has gone through many ups and downs in his life. In this essay, I will tell you about Clapton’s life, all the way back to his early life, to when he was strung out on drugs, and finally when he started Crossroads Music Festival. He became a great success in his lifetime. Eric …show more content…
Patricia Molly Clapton, Eric’s mother, was only sixteen years old when he was born. Edward Walter Fryer, Eric’s father, was a twenty-four year-old Canadian soldier who was commissioned in the United Kingdom during World War II. Fryer was already married back in Canada, but Eric’s mother was not aware of his wife. Unknowingly she was part of an affair. Fryer went back to Canada to be with his wife, not knowing his affair had given his a son. Patricia Clapton, now a single teenage mother was unprepared to raise a child on her own. So her mother and stepfather, Rose and Jack Clapp, raised Eric as their own. Even though Rose and Jack Clapp never legally adopted Eric, he grew up thinking that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his older sister. Eric grew up in a very musical household. Clapton’s grandmother was a very skilled piano player. His mother and uncle both liked listening to big-band music or jazz music. Even Clapton’s absent father was a skilled pianist. He had played in several dance bands while he was stationed in Surrey. Clapton discovered around the age of eight, the ground-breaking truth that the ones he called his parents was actually his