Interview With Eric Clapton

CREAM - SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ROCK BAND CREAM in 1968 GINGER BAKER - JACK BRUCE - ERIC CLAPTON - (HF-YTV)

00:00:00:00 B-ROLL On-stage performances by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees; Cream w Eric Clapton "Sunshine of Your Love"; Doors w Eddie Vetter(Sp?)of Pearl Jam "Light My Fire& ...

TAPE_NUMBER: EN9922 IN_TIME: 10:45:35 LENGTH: 02:42 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: Personality rights must be cleared *** Music/performacne rights must be cleared FEED: SCRIPT: xfa London, June 1 1999 AXE FALLS FOR CLAPTON In a move that will upset his millions of adoring fans, ERIC CLAPTON, the 'God' of guitarists, is flogging his axes. Clapton posed with his beloved guitars at auctioneers Christie's London saleroom this morning, June 1, and the instruments will go under the hammer in America later this month. The decision comes because Clapton has decided to take time out from his tough music schedule of albums and tours to spend more time working with recovering drug addicts. Some of the money raised from the sale will go to the treatment centre Clapton founded. A former drug addict and alcoholic himself, Clapton has become increasingly interested in helping people who find themselves in the same situation. Clapton, known as 'Slowhand' to his fans, came to prominence in the 1960s playing with groups like CREAM, THE YARDBIRDS and BLIND FAITH. But he almost lost it all, including his life, through drink and drug addictions. The methods that were used to save him, he now wants to help pass on to others in the same boat and he has spent a great deal of time and money helping fellow addicts and founded the Crossroads treatment centre in Antigua. It is estimated that the sale of around 100 instruments could raise as much as 750,000 US dollars for the centre. It will take place in Christie's New York branch on June 24. There will various Fender, Gibson, Martin and Guild guitars for sale. The most important item is 'Brownie', Clapton's much loved 1956 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster on which Clapton probably played the riffs to his most famous song LAYLA. RICHARD CHAPMAN, Christie's expert consultant on guitars, says this is an important collection for any serious rock music fan. Meanwhile it is a sad day for Clapton's long time guitar technician LEE DICKSON who has had the job of caring for the instruments. SHOTLIST: SHOWS : EXT CHRISTIES / CU POSTER / B-ROLL ERIC CLAPTON POSING FOR PRESS / C/WAYS GUITARS / SOT ERIC CLAPTON (ON SEEING THEM ALLTOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME) / GVS GUITARS / SOT RICHARD CHAPMAN, CHRISTIE'S GUITAR CONSULTANT / PERFORMANCE ERIC CLAPTON HYDE PARK, 1996 / SOT LEE DICKSON, ERIC CLAPTON'S GUITAR TECHNICIAN / GVS GUITARS / SOT ERIC CLAPTON/ SOT RICHARD CHAPMAN / B-ROLL ERIC CLAPTON / GVS GUITARS?

8:02:35:00-8:05:08:18>>>COLOR SYNC Interview with 4 different fans, in lobby of Palladium:- Pulsating, sexual, provocative, and sexual - it's funAnother woman's answer: It just gets you up, lifts your soul, just gets you up on your feet and going. - ""Between '64 and '67, that was the best. The Beatles, the Jefferson Airplane, the Stones, Cream, the Doors - That's when it was happening.""- Best guitarists: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, John Lennon""I bought 'The Peppermint Twist' by Joey D and the Starlighters"

NAME: US CLAPTON 240604N TAPE: EF04/0646 IN_TIME: 10:14:41:13 DURATION: 00:01:45:17 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: New York, 23 June 2004 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot exhibition room at Christie's auction house, with guitars belonging to Eric Clapton 2. Row of guitars 3. Row of guitars with Clapton photo behind 4. Two men look at guitars 5. Tilt up cherry red Gibson ES-335, estimated to sell for between 60-80,000 US dollars 6. Close up cherry red Gibson ES-335 7. Wide shot Clapton photos, tilt down to show "Blackie" Fender Stratocaster circa 1956, estimated to bring between 100-150,000 US dollars 8. Close up "Blackie" 9. Detail wear and tear on "Blackie" 10. Wide shot "Lenny" Fender Stratocaster, circa 1965, donated by Jimmie Vaughan from the Estate of legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, estimated to bring between 15-20,000 US dollars 11. Close up guitar case 12. Tilt down "Lenny" 13. SOUNDBITE: (English): Kerry Keane, Christie's auction house: "Compared with the items offered in our sale in 1999, in Eric Clapton's words, these were the instruments he held back, these were the items that he felt he couldn't give up, could not live without, he refers to them as his 'A-team'." 14. Various of guitars STORYLINE: British rock star Eric Clapton will auction off 56 of his guitars in New York on Thursday to raise money for a new drug treatment centre in Antigua and Barbuda, said the centre's marketing manager, Kim Martin. Proceeds from the auction at Christie's will go towards the recently completed 16-bed Bevon House, a centre for recovering patients that is an expansion of Clapton's Crossroads Centre. More than 500,000 US dollars is needed to finance the construction, and money raised through the auction will also go towards paying treatment fees for patients who can't afford them. Fifty-nine year old Clapton, who overcame his own heroin addiction years ago, underwrote the Crossroads Centre, which opened in 1998 in the Caribbean country where the guitarist has a home. According to Martin, the rock star described the guitars up for auction as "the cream of my collection." Clapton auctioned off other guitars in 1999 and said in a statement that the ones being sold now are guitars he didn't want to let go of in the last sale. "I kept them back from the first auction because I seriously couldn't consider parting with them at that point," he said. Highlights include 'Blackie', the unique composite Fender Stratocaster, circa 1956, that Clapton played throughout the early 1970s until the mid 1980s and the 1964 cherry red Gibson ES-335, the second electric guitar he ever bought and the one most associated with his days with Cream. The auction also contains the 1937 Martin, 000-42, used extensively on The 'Unplugged' recording; and the Fender Stratocaster 'Crash 3' designed by famous street artist Crash and the first of Clapton's graffiti guitars to be offered at the sale. The newly built complex, located about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) outside the capital of St. John's is separate from the Crossroads Centre at Willoughby Bay on Antigua's southeast coast. Drug and alcohol addicts first will have to complete a 29-day treatment at Crossroads before moving to Bevon House, where they are to hear lectures and receive counselling and help in looking for jobs.

CREAM - ANYONE FOR TENNIS? OPENS AND CLOSES WITH CLOSE UP OF FROGS CROAKING "CREAM" ROCK BAND CREAM GINGER BAKER - JACK BRUCE - ERIC CLAPTON MUSIC VIDEO TYPE SEQUENCE WHERE BAND WALKS AROUND SURREAL LANDSCAPE WITH TENNIS RACKETS

NEWSFEED: 6/5-25/04, DEDICATION OF USN JIMMY CARTER, REAGAN FUNERAL, FILIPINO ELECTION, NAVY, GW BUSH, ERIC CLAPTON'S GUITARS; DX EXT crowd waits on both sides of a bridge, top of bridge, ws more people gather around bridge, DX EXT var shots of a submarine, SSN Jimmy Carter, Navy men make their way to sub platform to audience applause; DX EXT Jimmy Carter himself enters platform to applause, T/H Carter is asked questions by press, mostly regarding Reagan; DX EXT T/H former Carter aide (?) answers questions from reporters, Carter's family listens in as speech is given; DX EXT man gives another speech introducing Carter clan, son gives speech still in his chair; DX EXT navy captain gives speech, cannon fire, Ronald Reagan coffin, soldiers set up barricades; INT coffin in rotunda, people wait in line to mourn, T/H spanish women mourn Reagan, casket placed in hearse; INT Spanish congressman discusses Reagan (in spanish), woman signs yellow bike helmet, crowd applauds at Ronnie's funeral; INT President Bush hands medals to recipients of presidential medal of freedom; INT room full of Eric Clapton's guitars on display, red guitar w/case from his Cream days, B&W guitar; INT some of Stevie Ray Vaughns guitar, aerial of car chase comes to end, suspect runs, police man beat him w/flashlights; INT LA Chief of Police holds press conference regarding beating; INT worker places jaw of T-Rex skeleton on to rest of body, var shots of fossils throughout museum; INT tourists walk around museum; DX EXT South American peds throw water all over street for some John the Baptist-the med holiday, they hose down a lizard!; INT Phillipines president announced, audience cheers, T/H female president gives speech; DX EXT troops on standby, INT airport security room, Dromoland Castle Hotel, T/H young war protester; INT Filipino man arrested, guns, passport

TAPE_NUMBER: EN9926 IN_TIME: 10:00:07 LENGTH: 03:40 SOURCES: APTN/WARNER MUSIC RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale film/video clips without clearance FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa RECORD SALE FOR CLAPTON GUITARS Story: Clapton Auction Location: New York Date: June 24 1999 The man who sixties fans called God, has enjoyed a record making sale of some of his personal guitar collection. ERIC CLAPTON had originally put up 100 of his most famous guitars for auction to raise money for his drug rehabilitation project, THE CROSSROADS CENTRE in Antigua. The prices however, far out reached the auctioneer's estimates eventually raising over five million dollars and setting a new record for the price paid for a guitar in auction. The collection included a 1959 Gibson ES-355TD, a guitar associated with Clapton since his early days with the band CREAM. The sale model had a distinctive 'Star burst' finish and was used extensively for his concerts and recordings in the nineties. While auctioneers Christie's had estimated a price of between twenty and thirty thousand dollars, it actually went for nearly eighty thousand, over twice the anticipated bid. Also in the sale was a 1991 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton signature model with gold-plated hardware which sold for over sixty thousand dollars, and a distinctive guitar strap designed exclusively for Clapton by the late fashion icon GIANNI VERSACE. Apparently the strap was never used on stage it may have been one item that Clapton was glad to see the back of. A 1959 Gibson explorer sold for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars while his distinctive acoustic Martin 000-28 which was his constant companion through the seventies, sold for a massive one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. The really heavy bidding however was reserved for the final lots with Clapton's 1954 Fender, used for his signature slide guitar playing, reaching over two hundred and ten thousand dollars. A new record was set with the sale of one of Clapton's favourite guitars 'Brownie' a 1956 Fender on which he played his famous introduction to the DEREK and THE DOMINOES song 'Layla'. A anonymous buyer paid nearly half a million dollars to buy up this piece of rock 'n' roll history. " I can't believe it " was Clapton's response, " I am totally overwhelmed. I had no idea the auction would do so well. " Clapton had said that he had wanted to sell the guitars to demonstrate his personal committed to the drugs and alcohol project in Antigua that he opened in 1998. Clapton himself has extensive knowledge of the famous twelve-step process for addicts as his own battle with drink and drugs led to him being hospitalised and spending long periods out of the public eye while battling his addictions. The sale of the guitars is no indication of a slowing down for the guitar legend. Clapton is currently rehearsing for a benefit concert in Madison Square Gardens, and he continues to write and record new material. His 1998 album 'Pilgrim' won two Grammy's and his work on film scores has also brought him critical acclaim. The double inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame however is currently enjoying the attention and money that his auction has raised for the charity closest to his heart. " I... want to say thank you on behalf of all the patients who will get free treatment as a result of this sale ". FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vredy Lytsma, Press Office, Christie's + 212.636.2680 SHOTLIST: SHOWS : EXTR AUCTION HOUSE ; POSTER FOR SALE ; PULL BACK GUITAR FAN READING AUCTION BOOK ; PULL INTO AUCTIONEER AT START OF SALE ; GVS AUCTION OF LOT 46, 1959 GIBSON ES-335TD, FOR $70,000 ; GVS AUCTION OF GUITAR WHICH CLAPTON WROTE WONDERFUL TONIGHT ON FOR $190,000 ; GVS AUCTION OF LOT 103 1954 FENDER STRATOCASTER FOR $450,000 ; SOT CATHY ELKIS (CHRISTIE'S AUCTIONEER); SOT GIL SOUTHWORTH JR (WHO BOUGHT LOT 46 FOR $70,000) ; MS GUITARS AND CLAPTON PHOTO ; CLIP VIDEO MY FATHER'S EYES?

TAPE: EF03/0719 IN_TIME: 03:11:06 DURATION: 3:06 SOURCES: SKY RESTRICTIONS: No access UK/CNNi/Internet DATELINE: Various, 10 Aug 2003 SHOTLIST: Heathrow Airport, London 1. Departing passengers walk past sign 2. Departing passengers 3. Woman eating ice cream 4. Various of passengers Bracknell 5. Wide shot met office 6. Man looking at screen 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rowley, forecaster, UK Met Office: "The heat builds up through the afternoon, and I say, for late July, through August into early September, the actual peaks of temperature come somewhere between three p-m and six p-m." Cowes, Isle of Wight 8. People on beach looking at yachts 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop: "I've only just come to England, I'm Australian, so I think all these lies about the English weather are lies." 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop: "It's a bit worrying when you consider the climate's changing, and it seems to be changing quite drastically." 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop: "Last year it was tipping down with rain at this time, blowing a gale." 12. Various of yachts 13. Spectators Surrey 14. Pan of celebrity cricket match 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Clapton, musician: "I'd rather just be lying under a tree, and hopefully that's what I'll be doing, I mean, I'll see if I can get out as quick as I can and get somewhere on the boundary where I can just sit in the shade." 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Viv Richards, former West Indies cricket captain: "The only thing we would have loved is the beach pretty close by, especially when you have weather like this, but the weather is magnificent." 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Wyman, musician: "We've just been touring France, Spain, Italy and it's been as bad as this, even hotter - 41, 42, so it's a little bit cooler here." Birmingham 18. Wide shot firefighters at factory blaze 19. Close up firefighters on cherry picker with hose 20. Fire engines and fire fighters 21. Wide shot firefighters on cherry picker hosing down side of factory 22. Close up water sprayed on factory 23. Close up firefighters on cherry picker 24. Wide shot firefighters on cherry picker above factory 25. Wide shot playing field with abandoned drinks bottles 26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop, witness: "We was all running around, next minute I know there's a crack which sounded like lightning and then I looked around and everyone was on the floor (ground) , I pulled myself together and everyone was like panic stations, running around and the one lady, Mandy, had been set fire to by the lightning. Tragic really. (Q: How is she doing?) At the moment, touch and go. She's on the machines. " Windsor 27. Pan of Legoland exhibit 28. Family walking 29. Various of Legoland park STORYLINE: Britain sweltered through its hottest day on record on Sunday, as the heat wave that has baked much of Europe for days sizzled relentlessly on. In the late afternoon sun, Britain surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) for the first time. The national weather service recorded 37.9 Celsius (100.22 Fahrenheit) at Heathrow Airport, near a parched and baking London. Later, an even higher reading - 38.1 Celsius (100.58) - was taken at Gravesend in southern England. For millions of Britons it was the end of a weekend to remember, as one in four people headed for the coast. Some will be hoping for a change in the weather. The crews starting in the Fastnet race at Cowes on the Isle of Wight will need more wind to complete one of the world's toughest yacht races. More leisurely pursuits have also been hard work. Celebrities at a charity cricket match in Surrey were trying to keep their cool. Northern parts of the country were cooler, and lightning storms created problems in some areas. A woman suffered a heart attack after being hit by lightning at a football match in Birmingham. Fourteen other people were hurt in the strike, which happened during heavy storms. The woman was revived at the scene and taken to hospital where she is now recovering Elsewhere in Birmingham, more than 60 firefighters were tackling a large fire at factory units struck by lightning in the storms. Ten fire engines were in attendance at the properties but the a West Midlands Fire Service spokesman said there were no injuries as it seemed the units were empty. The hot spell is great news for attractions like Legoland in Windsor. Families have flooded in as they try to take advantage of such a rare long stretch of good weather. However, the forecasters say storms are on their way.