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Clapton's life story focuses on relationships, not music
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Clapton
The Autobiography
By Eric Clapton
Broadway Books, 343 pages, $34
Reviewed by John Einarson
CONFESSION is good for the soul. In his much-anticipated autobiography, British guitar legend Eric (Slowhand) Clapton does plenty of confessin' the blues, and in doing so bares his soul.
His is a story told through four relationships with four women:
* Mother Pat, who abandoned him as an infant to be raised by his grandparents posing as Mom and Da...
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