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Eric Clapton And Melia Mcenery

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Eric Clapton And Melia Mcenery 

Eric Clapton And Melia Mcenery, On New Year’s day 2002, Eric Clapton quietly married Melia McEnery at St. Mary Magdalen Church in the town of Ripley in Surrey, England. Melia McEnery, who at the time of the wedding was 25-years-old and had a daughter with Clapton, Julie Rose born in 2001.

Clapton and McEnery had invited friends and family members to the christenings of Julie Rose (6 months) and Ruth (16-years-old) who is Clapton’s daughter from a previous relationship. After the christening ceremony, Clapton and McEnery were called up by the Reverend Christopher Elson to exchange wedding vows which was a total surprise to the guests.

This is Clapton’s second marriage, his first was with Patti Boyd, George Harrison‘s ex-wife.

Ruth’s mother is Yvonne Kelly who Clapton had a relationship with in 1983. Clapton didn’t meet his daughter until she was 7-years-old.

His only other child, Conor, died in an accidental fall from a New York City apartment window in 1990 and is buried in a cemetery attached to St. Mary Magdalen Church.

Clapton and McEnery now have three daughters together, Julie Rose (June 13, 2001), Ella May (January 14, 2003), and Sophie Belle (February 1, 2005). The song “Three Little Girls,” was written about his contentment with his home life. It is featured on his 2006 album “The Road to Escondido.”

Eric Clapton & Melia McEnery

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Eric Clapton & Melia McEnery, Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only 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 Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and fourth in Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname “Slowhand”. Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and “arty, blues-based psychedelic pop.” For most of the 1970s, Clapton’s output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were “Layla”, recorded by Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads”, recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.

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