Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Ụzọ: A mụrụ Clapton na 30 Machị 1945 na Ripley, Surrey, England, nye Patricia Molly Clapton dị afọ 16 (7 Jenụwarị 1929 <unk> Machị 1999) na Edward Walter Fryer (21 Machị 1920 <unk> 15 Mee 1985), onye agha dị afọ 25 si Montreal, Quebec. A kpọgara Fryer n'agha tupu amụọ Clapton ma mesịa laghachi Canada. Clapton tolitere na-ekwere na nne nne ya, Rose, na di ya nke abụọ, Jack Clapp, nna nkuchi Patricia, bụ nne na nna ya, na nne ya bụ n'ezie nwanne ya nwanyị nke okenye. Ihe yiri ya na aha nna mere ka e kweta na aha nna Clapton bụ Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton bụ aha di mbụ Rose, nna nna Eric Clapton). Afọ ole na ole ka e mesịrị, nne ya lụrụ onye agha Canada ọzọ wee kwaga Germany, na-ahapụ Eric na nne na nna ya ochie na Surrey. Clapton natara guitar Hoyer, nke emere na Germany, maka ụbọchị ọmụmụ nke iri na atọ ya, mana akụrụngwa igwe dị ọnụ ala siri ike igwu egwu, ọ tụfuru mmasị nwa oge. Afọ abụọ ka e mesịrị, Clapton weere ya ọzọ ma malite igwu egwu mgbe nile. Clapton nwere mmetụta nke blues site na nwata, ma na-eme ọtụtụ awa iji mụta ụda nke egwu blues site na igwu egwu na ndekọ. O chebere oge omume ya site n'iji igwe ihe ndekọ Grundig ya na-ebugharị, na-ege ha ntị ugboro ugboro ruo mgbe ọ chere na ọ nwetara ya. Na 1961, mgbe ọ hapụsịrị ụlọ akwụkwọ Hollyfield na Surbiton, Clapton gụrụ akwụkwọ na Kingston College of Art mana a chụrụ ya na njedebe nke afọ agụmakwụkwọ n'ihi na ọ lekwasịrị anya na egwu karịa nka. Egwú ọ na-akpọ na guitar dị nnọọ mma nke na, mgbe ọ dị afọ 16, a malitere ịma ya ama. N'oge a, Clapton bidoro ịgba egwu na Kingston, Richmond, na West End.  Ajụjụ: Ebee ka Fryer laghachiri mgbe ọ gachara agha?
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