He married his second wife Melia McEnery during a small church ceremony in January 2002.Melia was born in 1976, and is 31 years younger than Eric. Clapton's songs 'Layla' and 'Wonderful Tonight' were inspired by her. She had previously been married to Clapton's friend Harrison from 1966 to 1977. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the error that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather).Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany,leaving young Eric together with his grandparents in Surrey.Ĭlapton married Pattie Boyd in 1979. Clapton grew up believing that his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, Patricia's stepfather, were his parents, which his mother was actually his older sister. Fryer shipped off to war before Clapton's birth then returned to Canada. Early Life and FamilyĬlapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (7 January 1929 – March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 – ), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec. he's the sole three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream.Ĭlapton has received 18 Grammy Awards also because the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.In 2004 he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music.
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