I'm still an admirer of the man's talent, but quite apart from the racist rant stuff, I was totally put off after reading his autobiography, which I couldn't finish. He just came over as a self-centred selfish and arrogant X£%$. I realise that he would not have been alone, but the idea of...
Good grief. I'd forgotten that. He's off my Christmas card list now.
Strange as well given that so many of his guitar heroes are black Blues musicians, going back to Robert Johnson and probably beyond.
Not quite a total fall from grace, because he is OK now, but when I read Eric Clapton's autobiography a couple of years ago I was immensely disappointed and found myself thinking what a totally selfish, self-obsessed nasty little toerag he was, particularly over things like the relationship with...