Eric Clapton : Life in 12 Bars

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" Je n'ai jamais rencontré un meilleur homme qu'Eric Clapton". Voilà ce que disait BB King, légende du blues, au sujet de l'un des guitaristes les plus influents de la musique moderne. La vie n'a jamais été un long fleuve tranquille pour ce musicien hors pair. Les 12 mesures, celles de la musique du Diable, l'ont plus d'une fois sauvé du pire. Eric Clapton se raconte, de son enfance tourmentée à ses addictions, en passant par la perte tragique de son fils. En plus de BB King, d'autres grands noms de la guitare (Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison) témoignent, via des archives inédites, de l'influence du musicien sur leur oeuvre...

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00:00I've been around the world and I've met many people, kings and queens

00:04But I've never met a better man than my friend Eric Clapton

00:09One, two, three, four

00:12I knew that I was different

00:19And I didn't know why

00:22When it came to blues, there was nobody like him

00:27Before Eric, guitar playing in England had been very simple

00:31Suddenly we heard something that was completely different

00:34It was completely revolutionary

00:39The minute I woke up, I just played and played

00:46We were recording with Ray Charles, Rita Franklin

00:49People started to idolize what he was doing

00:53White America had never paid attention to blues

00:55Thanks to Eric, a lot of doors were open

00:58I thought it was the beginning

01:01I didn't know it was the end

01:03There was always a lot of cocaine, LSD, mescaline

01:09I was full of hatred and anger

01:12It got to be a point of wondering

01:15What's going to happen tomorrow night?

01:18It looked like he wanted to kill himself

01:20I was in absolute denial about my alcoholism

01:24Music saved me

01:26I thought I had this dream

01:32The perfect band, you know, the virtuoso

01:35There was a way to turn this dreadful tragedy into something positive

01:43There was always one man

01:48Who was completely alone

01:50And with his guitar versus the words

01:53There was always one man

02:03I didn't have a abbreviated

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