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STAR PROFILE Eric Clapton
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Image: Evergreen guitar hero Best Known For: His hit, Tears in
Heaven Early Life: Born Eric Patrick Clapp on March 30, 1945, in
Ripley, Surrey. He began playing guitar in his teens after seeing
Jerry Lee Lewis on TV.
Career: Joined the Yardbirds, but left in 1965 to link up with
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before forming late-60s supergroup Cream.
Derek and the Dominoes followed, but drug addiction threatened his
career. Eric kicked the ...
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STAR PROFILE Eric Clapton
Evening Times
; Image: Evergreen guitar hero Best Known For: His hit, Tears in Heaven Early Life: Born Eric Patrick Clapp on March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey. He began playing guitar in his teens after seeing Jerry Lee Lewis on TV. Career: Joined the Yardbirds, but left in 1965 to link up with John Mayall's
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Student life's tough.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; LIFE can be hard for students, scraping by on little money - unless of course you're Jerry Hall. The 45-year-old looked in great shape as she strolled on the beach in St Tropez with four-year-old son Gabriel. Jerry was topping up her tan in preparation for coming to Scotland for an Open University
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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critic's choice.(SOURCE)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Neal Justin; Staff Writer Step to it Dancing With the Stars (7 p.m., KSTP, Ch. 5) anoints a winner, capping yet another successful season of one of the most unlikely hits in TV history. I would have gone with Shuffleboard With the Stars before betting on this endeavor. The lesson: Never
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Ex-Cons lead is slashed to just one point; NUNEATON TUESDAY GAMES LEAGUE.(Sport)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; EX-CONS had their lead at the top of the Tuesday Night League cut to one point after they suffered a 11-5 defeat against third-placed Stockingford SS. Cons suffered a 4-3 defeat at darts while a 7-2 loss at dominoes followed to give the chasing pack fresh hope. Hartshill SS stayed hot on the heels
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Two thumbs down
Chicago Sun-Times
; Show me the exit! That's how Detroit's Brendan Shanahan and Steve Yzerman felt after seeing "Jerry Maguire," the Tom Cruise movie about a big-time sports agent. Shanahan apparently didn't want to hug his agent when he signed the contract which made him a millionaire. And at no point did Yzerman
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Lure of Jerry fails to fill theatre seats
Evening Standard - London
; DESPITE the promise of seeing Jerry Hall in all her naked glory, ticket sales for The Graduate are not quite proving the sell-out that might have been anticipated. Seats are available for all performances at the Gielgud Theatre this week, in which the Texan model takes over from Kathleen Turner in
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By the numbers: No run on passers Utah's Smith No. 1, but Cal's Rodgers forced to wait
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK -- After a week of trade rumors and intrigue, the only drama in this NFL draft was the long wait for Aaron Rodgers. With the top players considered relatively equal, quarterback Alex Smith went first as expected to San Francisco, and the other dominoes followed more or less the way they
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Thanks for 'Springer'.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; SIR - I look forward to seeing Jerry Springer - The Opera and praise the Wales Millennium Centre for putting on such a spiritually uplifting event that throws doubt on the moral worth of worshipping Jesus Christ. Taking one's ethics from a book written by a bunch of superstitious Bronze Age goat
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Jerry Butler breaks the ice in George's set
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Butler, who by day is a Cook County commissioner, singing "Skin Tight" in a Near North Side nightclub. Only in Chicago. MAYFIELD NEWS: Butler's former partner with the Impressions, Curtis Mayfield, has released his first album in five years, "Take It to the Streets ...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Paddy Shennan's column: Mighty Phoenix rises for new series; Fun is the key to remember as you may die laughing at Kay and company.(Features)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
; SEEING Jerry St Clair (Dave Spikey) singing of the beauty of heavy duty black bin bags they're long and black and slender will live with me for a long time . . . As will watching retro DJ Ray Von (Liverpool's very own Neil Fitzmaurice) telling tiny tots on the poxiest of fairground rides: ``Fun is
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