Eric Clapton 1991 Discusses the Death of his son, Conor, Drug Use, Religion, Racism and Enoch Powell.

Phoebe Bridgers has brought Clapton back into the news this week by claiming that his music is "extremely mediocre" and by describing him as "a famous racist." Her comments - which I address in the intro to this podcast - made me go back to a round table interview I attended with the man, in Milan, in 1991, at the time of the release of his album,  Eric Clapton: 24 Nights. I rarely did such round table press conferences, because they didn't lend themselves to the type of in-depth discussion I prefer. And I was not popular with many of my fellow journalists at the table because I did persist with questions I wanted to ask, about the death of Conor, the songs the tragedy was inspiring, Clapton's music in general, drugs and racism etc. Hence, I want to point out that this is a less than half-hour long edit of a one-hour press conference and it focuses mostly on my exchanges with Eric Clapton.