Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton

Author:Eric Clapton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Rock musicians - England, England, Clapton, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, Personal Memoirs, Rock musicians, Music, Rock, Biography & Autobiography, Genres & Styles, Composers & Musicians, Eric, Biography
ISBN: 9780385518512
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2007-10-08T10:00:00+00:00

If I gave to you a golden ring,

Would I make you happy, would I make you sing?

The fact is that at this time, for whatever reason, Nell and I were not particularly happy. My diary for September 6, 1978, reads, “Sex life is pretty barren at the moment, we don’t seem to be getting on too well, there’s nothing in particular to blame, unless it’s the stars, we just seem to be heading in different directions.” Nor did my often chauvinistic behavior improve the situation. For example, I noted on October 16, “In the evening Nell…was giving advice to Simon’s ex-girlfriend in the kitchen for two hours, so my dinner was taken out of the oven and popped back in again, by the time I got it, it was burnt and dried up, so I shouted at her good loud and long, but she didn’t seem very repentant, and I got a sore throat.”

I was also picking up girls for sex as soon as I got on the road, aided and abetted by Roger. “Roger started to wind me up,” I wrote in Madrid on November 5, “about some incredible looking bird who he says has turned up at the gig.” Later that day I continued, “I have got a hundred quid bet with Roger that he can’t pull a nice clean normal bird for me…. He had better, cause there was nothing under fifty years old in sight.” Then when, on November 19, Nell finally came to visit me in Brussels for a couple of days, I noted, “I went to sleep with all my clothes on. I just can’t get it on with Nell now that she is here; it’s so sad for us, but the road is the road and home is home and never the twix should mix.”

Coming to visit me on tour was a rarity for Nell, as Roger and I had long ago come to a strict agreement that there should be no women on tour. This was a rule that applied to everybody, from the bandleader downward. And it was completely transparent. Everyone knew what it was really about. Nell, of course, was not too happy about this, which she considered very chauvinistic, and it became a frequent source of friction between us. She often told me she felt isolated and lonely. The situation wasn’t helped by the fact that whenever I was on the road, I was being constantly unfaithful. I’d tell her all about it, on the basis that if I was honest with her and confessed to what I had been doing, then it would somehow make it okay. She would rail at me occasionally, but I think her main concern was to try somehow to preserve the status quo, in the hope that things would change. What was her alternative? To leave and start again with someone else?

Everything finally came to a head when I found myself falling in love with one of these girls, or at least thinking I was falling in love.

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