Eric Clapton was born in 1945 in the town of Ripley Surrey. His father was a Canadian soldier who had been stationed in the UK but had to return to his wife in Canada as the Second World War closed. With his father missing, Clapton was brought up by his grandparents, who acted as his parents, whilst his young mother pretended to be his sister. He did not find out the truth until he was nine Cla...
