On July 20, 1974, Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard entered the Billboard album chart and on August 17 his artistic and private comeback was full. The file moved to No.1 on that date, giving “Slowhand” his first chart-topping US LP. It went on to remain there for a full month.
Within the US in 1974, Clapton might do no flawed. This album confirmed that he had effectively and really overcome the troubles that had disrupted his life within the early a part of the Nineteen Seventies. He was little question helped alongside the way in which by his indelible cowl of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “I Shot The Sheriff.” It will definitely reached No.1 in the USA. Recorded on the suggestion of band member George Terry, the tune options backing vocals by Yvonne Elliman, and would later be voted into the Grammy Corridor of Fame. In the direction of the top of the yr, Eric’s remake of the Johnny Otis rock ‘n’ roll chestnut “Willie And The Hand Jive” was additionally launched as a single, hitting the American prime 30.
The core 461 band was composed of gamers who have been both already Clapton diehards or would turn into so, together with Carl Radle (bass), Dick Sims (keyboards), George Terry (guitar), and Jamie Older (drums). The album, produced by studio grasp Tom Dowd, additionally featured backing vocals and harmonica by a younger lady known as Marcy Levy, later to co-write “Lay Down Sally” and different songs with Clapton, earlier than discovering fame within the Nineties as Marcella Detroit in Shakespears Sister.
The home featured on the album’s cowl was, certainly, 461 Ocean Boulevard, within the city of Golden Seashore, Florida. Eric lived there whereas making the album. (Invoice Gates and Ricky Martin have additionally owned properties within the upscale group.) He recorded 461 at famed Standards Studios between April and Might 1974, the place, in 1970, he had recorded Layla And Different Assorted Love Songs with Derek and the Dominos.
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