Alumni of Kingston University: Eric Clapton, Lawrence Dallaglio, Eason Chan, Charles Ingram, Ben Barnes, Graeme Le Saux, Robin Rimbaud

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Eric Clapton, Eason Chan, Lawrence Dallaglio, Charles Ingram, Ben Barnes, Graeme Le Saux, Robin Rimbaud, Angela Bowie, Asha Gill, Faisal Bin Shamlan, Trevor Eve, Fiona Banner, Anya Gallaccio, Charlie Amesbury, Keith Relf, Tony Ball, Lavinia Greenlaw, Guy de Faye, Nick Pelling, Sam Chan, Tony Arbour, Karl McCartney, Francis Yeoh, Charlotte Reather, Jasper Morrison, Gregory Venables, John Richmond, Ed McKeever, James Irvine. Excerpt: Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and 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 fourth 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 left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand," and graffiti in London declared "Clapton is God." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed, with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, the power trio Cream, 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 gain reggae 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 a...