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Eric Clapton’s Madrid show cut short after a fan’s shocking mid-concert attack with a vinyl record

Eric Clapton’s Madrid concert came to an abrupt end last week after a fan launched a vinyl record at him mid-performance, leaving the 81-year-old visibly shaken. The incident happened on May 7 at Movistar Arena, just as Clapton finished playing his 1997 hit Cocaine. Instead of returning for his planned…

The Mary Sue

Bring Me the Horizon frontman suffers concussion after being struck by phone mid-show

Rocker said he ‘should be fine’ to perform Wednesday’s concert

The Independent UK

Bring Me the Horizon and Eric Clapton struck by objects thrown by audience members

British pop-metallers’ frontman Oli Sykes suffers concussion after phone strikes him on the head, in latest in spate of similar incidents faced by musicians

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Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes suffered concussion after fan threw phone at him during gig

Oli Sykes updated fans after he was struck by a phone thrown by a fan during a Bring Me The Horizon gig this week.

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Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes continues gig after fan hurls phone at him mid‑show

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes was struck by a phone thrown from the crowd during the band’s St. Louis show, leaving him visibly frustrated onstage.

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Eric Clapton cuts concert short after being hit by flying object at Madrid concert

Eric Clapton was hit in the chest by what is reported to be a vinyl at his concert in Madrid, lead to him cutting his set short.

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Eric Clapton ends concert early after fan throws object on stage

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Eric Clapton cuts Madrid concert short after being hit by vinyl record thrown from crowd

It was the musician’s first appearance in Spanish capital in 25 years

The Independent UK

Eric Clapton ends gig early after being hit by object thrown from crowd

Slowhand didn't come out for an expected encore after he was struck in the chest by what appeared to be a vinyl record

Guitar World

“He called me the night before he passed to tell me how much he loved it”: Posthumous Steve Cropper album announced, featuring some of electric guitar’s biggest names

The late Stax guitar legend has touted the star-studded affair as “the best record he’d ever made”

Guitar World

"He called me the night before he passed to tell me how much he loved it." Eric Clapton, Brian May, Billy Gibbons, Ronnie Wood guest on posthumous album from the late Steve Cropper

Watching The Tide, the forthcoming album from Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour, will feature a host of guitar legends

Louder

The Rolling Stones: ‘Foreign Tongues’ & The 30 worst album covers of all time

CONTENT WARNING: This article contains images you can’t unsee. Some album covers also feature language some people may find offensive.

Euronews

“What started as a joke turned into a track that Steve knew had magic in it”: Eric Clapton recorded a song with Steve Cropper before the session legend’s passing – and it will be part of his final body of work

The six-string veteran passed away aged 84 last year, but it turns out he sparred with another guitar legend in the studio before he left us

Guitar World

“Back in the ’70s he got up with us and played Train Kept A-Rollin’. That was amazing, but of course I was intimidated. He’s a genius. He’s Mozart!”: Joe Perry salutes his guitar heroes Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck

“He was always pushing the edge – going into jazz”

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Guitar World

“Nobody had ever made that kind of noise on record before”: The life and times of Mike Vernon, the British blues legend who got Eric Clapton his Bluesbreakers tone

The producer of vintage Fleetwood Mac and Bluesbreakers was one of British blues’ towering figures

The Guardian - UK

Dave Mason obituary

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the British rock group Traffic who clashed with the frontman Steve Winwood

Guitar World

“People would hate us, bully us, throw stuff at us and threaten to beat us up, but they wouldn’t leave. We thought, ‘Okay, we’ve got something’”: Devo’s Bob Mothersbaugh on accidental hits, audience provocations and the de-evolution of guitar

Devo's uncontrollable urge to make new noise sired a new-wave sound with a puckish punk energy. The ’70s wasn't ready for them. Are we not ready now?

Guitar World

“When I started this business, I had two kinds of people: those who believed in it and those laughing at me”: Who is buying $15 million guitars? One of the world’s leading dealers lifts the veil on the collectible guitar market

At 32, Matthieu Lucas hosts guitars wielded by the likes of Slash, Eric Clapton and AC/DC at Parisian guitar emporium Matt’s Guitar Shop. He is driven by his core belief that vintage guitars, once owned by legendary musicians, are meant to be played on stage again

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Guitar World

“There were two camps. I came out of the Yardbirds camp – the Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck kind of things”: Why Todd Rundgren chose to play Gibsons over Fenders

Rundgren initially aligned himself with the Yardbirds guitar heroes, though would branch out in later years

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“Jimi and I sat down facing each other, with Jimi on six-string acoustic and me on 12-string”: The life and times of Dave Mason, the Traffic legend who played with Hendrix, McCartney, the Stones and more

“If you're going to learn something, you may as well try and put yourself around the best”

Guitar World

“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions

From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments

Guitar World

“A piece of rock and roll history”: Guitars gifted, played and modded by Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen and Keith Richards are all going to auction – and expected to sell for more than $1,500,000

Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas acoustic also features the lot expected to smash into a seven-figure total

Guitar World

“A guitar that sits at the intersection of love, collaboration and some of the most influential songwriting of the late 1960s”: The 1913 Gibson used to write Here Comes the Sun and Let It Rain – owned by Eric Clapton – is now up for auction

Alongside the Clapton/Harrison acoustic, one of Ace Frehley’s Les Pauls from Kiss’s peak popularity era is also included in the auction

Guitar World

“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger”: How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes

The underrated guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he’s been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the favorite solos in his catalog

Guitar World

“Björn and I met and discussed what it could look like. It had to be shiny and sparkling”: How a Swedish luthier used by Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton created the iconic ABBA star guitar

Meet Göran Malmberg, maker of the ultimate glam-rock axe that Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA walked on the Eurovision stage with in 1974

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