Ruth Clapton wisely hired her rock-star dad to be her wedding singer
A single ticket holder won more than 160 million pounds ($255 million) in the British Euromillions draw Tuesday night, lottery operator Camelot said Wednesday.
The Great Recession is over for Eric Clapton fans. During a charity auction on Wednesday, fans bid on some of the guitar legend's most prized possessions and raised $1.77 million for a drug treatment center in Antigua.
The actress gets support from hubby Michael Douglas and her two kids at the event
"When you see the performance, it will make a lot sense," says the show producer
One of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks reveals that North Korean officials suggested the U.S. government make arrangements for rock icon Eric Clapton to perform in Pyongyang as a way of building "good will" between the countries.
It used to be that air guitar was the exclusive domain of zit-faced teenage boys in the privacy of their rooms -- and maybe that's where it should have stayed.
Contestants rock out with air guitars as they compete to become the "UK Air Guitar Champion."
With a history of unconventional pairings, here are the acts PEOPLE would love to see perform together this year
CNN Photojournalist Chris Turner profiles an American guitar company that has perfected their craft over many years.
Traveling through the rolling hills of Pennsylvania's farmland, one can almost hear the music of days gone by.
In Jimmy Brown's business, he never knows who - or what - is going to walk through the door. He fondly remembers many of the instruments that have found their way to his Louisville store, Guitar Emporium, over the years: a 1929 acoustic Martin 00-45, a 1954 sunburst Fender Stratocaster with a rare form-fitting case, a 1958 Gibson ES-355 with an original stop tailpiece and a 1959 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul, to name just a few.
You've heard J.J. Cale's songs.
France's First Lady admits she often disturbs husband Nicolas Sarkozy
The sax man
updated: Fri Aug 15 2008 10:03:00
Musician David Sanborn talks to CNN's Shanon Cook about his love-hate relationship with his sax.
Ask saxophonist David Sanborn to reel off a list of career achievements, and you'd better get comfortable. It's a long list.
John Bradley knows radio. As the CEO of Boulder-based CustomChannels.net, he makes companies sound cool by managing their in-store playlists and creating their online music stations.
France gets a sneak peek of its First Lady's very personal record
Music: it's an essential part of a director's armory, providing an aural canvas that enhances and underlines the visual effects on-screen.
North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said Tuesday
Carla Bruni is the new first lady of France, PEOPLE has confirmed.
New opinion polls show the French public is tired of speculation surrounding President Nicolas Sarkozy's private life after a newspaper claimed he is about to marry ex-supermodel Carla Bruni.
Less than two months after his divorce, France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has found a new companion: model Carla Bruni.
Nanotubes, sheets of carbon one atom thick rolled up into a cylinder 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, may someday replace silicon chips. What can they do now? Pick up FM and AM signals, as Berkeley scientists demonstrated with a radio 100 billion times smaller than the old RCAs.
CNN's Hugh Riminton speaks with Selva Sinnadurai of the Red Cross delegation in Bangladesh about relief efforts.
Bangladesh, low-lying and with isolated villages, is extremely susceptible to the type of conditions Sidr has brought.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has signed a deal reportedly worth more than $7 million to write his autobiography, a tome that will trace his trek from cherubic choirboy to rock 'n' roll survivor.
Publishers vying for the rights to rocker Keith Richards' autobiography have pushed up the Rolling Stones guitarist's advance to $7.3 million, according to a report.
The official mascot of the University of Virginia is the musketeer-like Cavalier, but unofficially it's the wahoo, a fish that, according to student legend, can drink twice its weight in a day. That's probably not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he designed U.Va.'s elegant neoclassical brick buildings and colonnades.
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Fortune: Rock musicianupdated: Thu Nov 09 2006 09:49:00
ROBERT TRUJILLO, bassist, Metallica
what a quaint relic. I ask Khedouri if I can simply download the title track -- right here, right now -- to a MusicGremlin.
Supermodel Kate Moss's public dismissal from campaigns with H&M, Chanel, and Burberry after reportedly being photographed using cocaine is the latest reminder of a simple truth: Arranged marriages ...
Last weekend, several musicians appeared on CNN's Larry King-hosted special, "How You Can Help." Their performances were moving and dramatic. Here is a sampling of their work.
Before the end of his first stanza, Eric Clapton plied melody into the horror that victims of Hurricane Katrina faced.
It could have gone all terribly wrong. Jack Bruce could have passed out during his bass solo. Ginger Baker could have expired amid a flurry of drumsticks. Or the two could have just beaten each other silly right there on stage. All the while guitarist Eric Clapton would be gently weeping in the wings.
Famous Roostersupdated: Tue Feb 08 2005 21:01:00
The following people were born in the Year of the Rooster:
It's March 1964 and Beatlemania is inescapable.
Some major music producers and songwriters, including Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Quincy Jones are agreeing to write advertising jingles, according to a published report.
showbuzzupdated: Thu Apr 15 2004 13:31:00
It's a good thing Eric Clapton invited Vince Gill to perform at his Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas this June, because Gill would have a hard time staying away.
Fortune: The Playlistupdated: Mon Feb 04 2002 00:01:00
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Your competitors are good, very good. You improve quality; so do they. You drop your price; so do they. So how do you stand out? David Kelley has an answer: great design. This Stanford professor an...
Lonnie Mack is best known for his one hit--an instrumental version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" that appeared in 1963. That led to his first album, The Wham of That Memphis Man, on which "Why" origin...
I know this may sound obscure but, dear reader, I simply must tell you about metadata! Metadata presents the biggest challenge the tech industry faces in delivering the ubiquitous, ever present, ne...
Fortune: Unplugged And Undoneupdated: Mon Oct 09 2000 00:01:00
I sit up straight in bed, drenched in sweat. It is pitch-black. The alarm clock shows 3:17 A.M. I'm having a nightmare. I don't often have nightmares, but this one is a doozy. You could call it a b...
So you've founded a business, sold it five years later for $250 million, become president of the merged company, and in another five years helped to more than quintuple its sales to $5.3 billion. W...
Fortune: ROCK GOES BOOMupdated: Mon Sep 07 1992 00:01:00
Better acts that offer more bang for the buck and tours by hot bands like Genesis, U2, Metallica, and Hammer are reviving revenues from rock music concerts following last year's bummer. The top 20 ...
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