Clapton: Edge of Darkness

Rating:
Summary: Not Definitive, But a Good Counterbalance.
Review: This book is the perfect counterbalance to Ray Coleman's hilariously fawning autohrized biography, "Clapton."

Coleman's and Sanford's books are polar opposites in the treatment of the subject and somehere between the two extremes a fairly good picture of Clapton emerges.

If you seek objectivity, read this one first. It is a harsher, more detached, yet no less accurate, assesment of his life and musical influence.

If you are a Clapton fan seeking to reenforce your perception of, "Clapton as God", read Coleman's book.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting Clapton bio
Review: This is an interesting read on Eric Clapton; very different than the mostly adulatory work that is in other EC biographers' work. While most of Sanford conclusions on EC are interesting and seem well thought out, should be taken with "a grain of salt". Good book to balance out the scales as the other end portrays him almost saintly- something he himself never claimed to be.