I have 3 Bradford pear trees and I planted them all one year ago, 1 of them is flowering and blooming very nicely and the other two have cracks in the trunk of the tree that you can see pretty far in to the tree.
The Yardbirdsâ manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, gave Eric Clapton the nickname âSlowhandâ in early 1964. The Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Eric Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, Eric would stay on stage and replace it.
Played the guitar solo on George Harrison 's While My Guitar Gently Weeps, creating a precedent. No other outside musician had ever had such a privilege. Both George Harrison and Clapton were married to model Pattie Boyd (Harrison first, Clapton afterwards). George and Eric referred to each other as husbands-in-law. Clapton wrote the songs Layla and Wonderful Tonight about Pattie. She and Eric eventually married, nine years after he recorded Layla.