A Concert By The Lake [Blu-ray] [2010]

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The latest appearance was last year in aid of HASTE (Heart And Stroke Trust Endeavour) and released on DVD as One Night Only . Mentally battered, Clapton and his socialite girlfriend Alice Ormsby-Gore gradually retreated from the limelight – and into a twilight world of heroin addiction from which he would not emerge until three years later. Over the past year and a half, Clapton has criticized the United Kingdom's lockdown measures in a series of songs written with fellow vaccine skeptic Van Morrison, including " The Rebels" and " Stand and Deliver.

The set list has been a tightly guarded secret, but don’t expect to see Collins sing “All I Need Is a Miracle” again. Somewhat amusingly, these new Drifters come out during "I Can't Dance" and dance like Genesis did in the music video. Eric Clapton: Alice and I, stoned out of our heads, turned up late [at the Rainbow], to find Pete and [Clapton’s manager Robert] Stigwood tearing their hair out. An amazing line-up of star soloists including Eric Clapton, Katie Melua, Roger Taylor, Ringo Starr, Paul Carrack, Andy Fairweather Low, Gary Brooker, Chris Barber, and The Drifters. With the exception of a March 19 performance in Bahrain, Clapton has not performed live since last September, when he embarked on a brief tour of the southern United States.

By the autumn of 1973, he and Ormsby-Gore had sunk ever deeper into their addict lifestyle at Hurtwood Edge. Pete Townshend: The drugs were flowing very freely among the musicians, and I think Eric upped his intake of heroin – he stopped trying to substitute it with other things, which he had been doing to try to pull himself round.

Both the album and video release were certified with a gold certification award in the United Kingdom. Eric Clapton: I’d been quite seriously addicted to heroin, then thought I’d got off it by drinking, not knowing that alcohol was probably going to do me more damage. Sources : Clapton, The Authorised Biography by Ray Coleman (Sidgwick And Jackson, 1994), Crossroads by Michael Schumaker (Hyperion Press, 1995), Conversations With Eric Clapton by Steve Turner (Abacus, 1976), Wonderful Today, by Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor (Headline Review, 2007), Ronnie by Ronnie Wood (McMillian, 2007). He has interviewed three of the four Beatles, all of Abba and been nursed through a bad attack of food poisoning on a tour bus in South America by Robert Smith of The Cure. Band Du Lac is an all-star supergroup brought together to play occasional charity concerts, this particular one being staged at the historic Wintershall Estate in Surrey, England in aid of HASTE (Heart And Stroke Trust Endeavour).This concert brings together a group of rock legends under the musical direction of Procol Harum's Gary Brooker to perform many of their best loved tracks. Ronnie Wood: He showed up, played, and after that, he and Alice just shut the door again and stayed smacked out. I wasn't especially impressed, not being a Queen fan to begin with, but those who are may find this portion of the concert fun. At the end of that period, I found I had boxes full of playing, as if there was something struggling to survive.