Eric Clapton video discography | |
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Video albums | 22 |
Music videos | 17 |
The videography of Eric Clapton consists of 22 video albums and concert films as well as 17 music videos. His commercially most successful video releases are the DVDs of his Crossroads Guitar Festival series. His 2007 release sold over two million DVD and Blu-rays to date, making it one of the best-selling music video DVDs ever to be released. [1] The 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD was certified 10-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Clapton's video releases are popular all over the world, especially in North and South Armerica, Europe and Oceania. Clapton's small number of music videos are similarly successful. Every music video Clapton has released, has been shown more than 30 weeks in succession on MTV, VH1, MuchMusic, MTV2 and Fuse TV – rarely has any other artist been broadcast that often on a music TV channel throughout their whole career. [2]
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UK | AUS | AUT | BEL | FRA | ITA | NED | SWE | SWI | US | |||
Live 1986
| 2 [4] | 36 [5] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 [6] | ||
The Cream of Eric Clapton
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 [10] | ||
24 Nights
| – | 34 [13] | – | – | – | 13 [14] | – | – | – | 5 [15] | ||
Unplugged
| – | 12 [18] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 [19] | ||
Live in Hyde Park
| 4 [22] | 31 [23] | – | – | – | – | 9 [24] | – | – | 11 [25] | ||
Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23 [28] | ||
In Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua
| – | 7 [32] | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 [33] | |||
One More Car, One More Rider
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 [35] |
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Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004
| 4 [37] | |||||||||||
Sessions for Robert J
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 21 [40] | ||
Legends: Live at Montreux 1997 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Live at Montreux 1986
| 23 [42] | 2 [43] | 8 [44] | – | – | – | 26 [45] | – | – | 20 [46] | ||
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
| 27 [49] | 13 [50] | – | – | – | 8 [51] | 15 [52] | – | 3 [53] | |||
Live from Madison Square Garden | 3 [56] | 10 [57] | 3 [58] | 6 [59] | – | 2 [60] | 6 [61] | — | — | 1 [62] |
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Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 | 20 [65] | – | 2 [66] | 9 [67] | 2 [68] | 3 [69] | 3 [70] | — | — | 1 [71] |
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Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center | – | 4 [72] | – | – | – | – | 28 [73] | – | – | – | ||
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013
| 9 [75] | 2 [76] | 3 [77] | 2 [78] | 1 [79] | 1 [80] | 1 [81] | 2 [82] | 1 [83] |
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Planes, Trains and Eric
| 3 [85] | 4 [86] | 4 [87] | 8 [88] | 5 [89] | 12 [90] | 3 [91] | 4 [92] | 1 [93] | |||
Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall | 2 [96] | 5 [97] | 1 [98] | 1 [99] | 1 [100] | 2 [101] | – | 1 [102] | 1 [103] |
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Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 | 2 [96] | 5 [97] | 1 [105] | 1 [106] | 1 [107] | 2 [101] | – | 1 [102] | 1 [108] | |||
The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
| — | — | — | 9 | — | 10 | — | 39 [109] | — | 13 | ||
Nothing but the Blues [110]
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"–" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region. |
Title | Year | Monitor | Director | |
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MTV | VH1 | |||
"Forever Man" | 1985 | 1 [111] | – |
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"She's Waiting" | 1 [113] | – |
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"It's in the Way That You Use It" | 1986 | 1 [115] | – |
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"After Midnight" | 1988 | 2 [117] | 5 [118] |
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"Bad Love" | 1989 | 3 [119] | 5 [120] |
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"Pretending" | 2 [122] | 1 [123] |
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"Layla (Acoustic)" (Live Video) | 1992 | 2 [125] | 1 [126] |
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"Running on Faith" (Live Video) | 2 [128] | 1 [129] |
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"Tears in Heaven" | 1 [131] | 1 [132] |
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"Motherless Child" | 1994 | 1 [134] | 3 [135] |
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"Change the World" | 1996 | 9 [137] | 1 [138] |
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"My Father's Eyes" | 1998 | 23 [140] | 6 [141] |
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"Pilgrim" | – | – |
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"Blue Eyes Blue" | 1999 | 28 [144] | 19 [145] |
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"Riding with the King" (featuring B.B. King) | 2000 | 47 [147] | 21 [148] |
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"I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" | 2001 | – | – | |
"They Call Me the Breeze" | 2014 | – | – |
Title | Year | Monitor | Director | |
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MTV | VH1 | |||
"Love Like a Rocket" (with Bob Geldof) | 1986 | – | – | |
"Fight (No Matter How Long)" (with Bee Gees) | 1988 | – | – | |
"I Wish It Would Rain Down" (with Phil Collins) | 1990 |
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"It's Probably Me" (with Sting) | 1992 | 1 [151] | 3 [152] | |
"Runaway Train" (with Elton John) | – | 7 [154] |
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"Love Can Build a Bridge" (with Cher, Chrissie Hynde & Neneh Cherry) | 1995 | – | – |
Pilgrim is the thirteenth solo studio album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton, released on 10 March 1998 for Reprise Records. The album features all-new studio-recorded material, the first to do so since Clapton's 1989 hit album Journeyman and was nominated for several music awards. Although most of the critics responded negatively to the 1998 studio effort, it was one of Clapton's most commercially successful albums, reaching the Top 10 in twenty-two countries.
From the Cradle is the twelfth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released on 12 September 1994 by Warner Bros. Records. A blues cover album and Clapton's follow-up to his successful 1992 live album, Unplugged, it is his only UK number-one album to date.
One More Car, One More Rider is the eighth live album by Eric Clapton, released on 5 November 2002 on Duck / Reprise Records. It is also his third double live album. The album contains songs performed during Clapton's 2001 world tour. The recordings on this album are from two nights at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 18 & 19 August 2001. Accompanying Clapton on this album are guitarist Andy Fairweather-Low, drummer Steve Gadd, bassist Nathan East and keyboardists Billy Preston, Greg Phillinganes and David Sancious. Clapton claimed that this would be his last world tour, making this album initially more valuable. However, he has since toured the world several times, both on his own and with Steve Winwood.
Unplugged is a 1992 live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at Bray Studios, England in front of an audience for the MTV Unplugged television series. It includes a version of the successful 1992 single "Tears in Heaven" and an acoustic version of "Layla". The album itself won three Grammy awards at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993 and became the bestselling live album of all time, and Clapton's bestselling album, selling 26 million copies worldwide.
The Corrs Unplugged is the third album by Irish band The Corrs, filmed and released in the fall of 1999. The album is part of the iconic MTV Unplugged series, which features musicians performing in a more acoustic, “stripped-down” concert setting. Initially, the album was released internationally, albeit not in the United States until a year later, after the band had experienced further success with their single “Breathless” and their fourth album In Blue, with both releases earning them their highest chart positions to-date in the US.
Me and Mr. Johnson is the fifteenth solo studio album recorded by Eric Clapton, released in March 2004 by Reprise Records. It consists of covers of songs written and originally recorded by Robert Johnson. The album cover was painted by Sir Peter Blake, using a series of photographs of Clapton. Clapton had planned to record an album of new material, but by the time of the recording sessions there were not enough new songs written, so the band instead recorded a series of Johnson songs.
"Tears in Heaven" is a song by English guitarist, singer, and songwriter Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, written about the death of Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor. It appeared on the 1991 Rush film soundtrack. In January 1992, Clapton performed the song in front of an audience at Bray Studios, Berkshire, England for MTV Unplugged, with the recording appearing on his Unplugged album.
Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton is a compilation album by English guitarist Eric Clapton featuring his hits from the 1980s and 1990s. The album was released on 12 October 1999 by the Duck / Reprise Records label. Two new songs are included on the disc, "Blue Eyes Blue" which was previously released as a single and "(I) Get Lost" which Clapton wrote for the soundtrack to the film The Story of Us.
Crossroads is a 1988 music collection box set of the work of Eric Clapton released by Polydor Records. The set includes his work with the Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and Derek and the Dominos, as well as his solo career.
"Change the World" is a song written by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy, and Wayne Kirkpatrick and recorded by country music artist Wynonna Judd. A later version was recorded by English singer Eric Clapton for the soundtrack of the 1996 film Phenomenon. Clapton's version was produced by R&B record producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.
Reptile is the 14th solo studio album by Eric Clapton. The album was produced by Eric Clapton with Simon Climie and is Clapton's first album to include keyboard work by Billy Preston and background vocals by the Impressions. The album reached the Top 10 in 20 countries, topping the national album charts in three of them. In total, the album sold more than 2.5 million copies and gained several certification awards around the globe. To help promote album sales, music network VH1 streamed the album in full on TV.
Riding with the King is a collaborative album by B.B. King and Eric Clapton that was released in 2000. It was their first collaborative album and won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. The album reached number one on Billboard's Top Blues Albums and was certified 2× Platinum in the United States. Riding with the King was also released on a DVD-Audio in higher resolution and with a 5.1 surround sound mix in 2000.
The Cream of Clapton is an Eric Clapton compilation album released in 1995. Additionally, the European and U.S.-versions have a different track listings. The European version had already been released as The Best of Eric Clapton in 1991, though without the track "I Can't Stand It".
"Lay Down Sally" is a song performed by Eric Clapton, and written by Clapton, Marcy Levy, and George Terry. It appeared on his November 1977 album Slowhand, and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Forever Man" is a song from Eric Clapton's 1985 album Behind the Sun, released as the first single of the album. It reached number one on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, becoming his second single to do so. In total, the single release sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.
Live In Hyde Park is concert film recorded by blues-rock guitarist Eric Clapton on 29 June 1996 in London's Hyde Park. The concert was presented by the MasterCard Masters of Music for The Prince's Trust and featured songs from right across his career. The VHS of the footage from the concert was released in 1997, followed by a DVD version in 2001. Part of Live in Hyde Park was also released as a 4-track promotional CD by Clapton's EC Access fan club in August 2005, featuring Tearin' Us Apart, Five Long Years, I'm Tore Down, and Every Day I Have the Blues.
Story is a compilation album by Eric Clapton.
"Blue Eyes Blue" is a pop song written by American songwriter Diane Warren. The tune was written for the 1999 soundtrack of Runaway Bride. The British rock musician Eric Clapton recorded the song for the soundtrack and released his performance of the song as a single on July 20, 1999, for Reprise Records.
Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center is a 2011 live album by Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis. Released on September 13, it contains live recordings of the 2011 collaboration at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts between the British blues guitarist and the American jazz trumpeter. A video release accompanies the audio recordings. The live album reached various national charts and was certified in several territories.
"(I) Get Lost" is a pop song written and recorded by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. The title was released as both a single on 23 November 1999 for Reprise Records and is featured as part of the compilation album Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton, which was released on 12 October 1999. It was written for the movie The Story of Us.
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