Au même titre que Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck ou Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton a marqué l'histoire du rock en tant que guitariste, d'abord avec les Yardbirds puis John Mayall et surtout Cream, au sein duquel il grave ses premiers classiques et repousse les limites de la guitare blues. En 1974, il rencontre un énorme succès avec 461 Ocean Boulevard, notamment grâce sa reprise de « I Shot The Sheriff ». Sa carrière, jalonnée de succès populaires comme « Cocaine », « Tears In Heaven » ou « Layla », se voit altérée par un alcoolisme destructeur. …
The Best Rock & Power Ballads Album is packed full of huge tracks across Rock & Pop and features some of the biggest hits from artists including Meat Loaf, Europe, Survivor, Boston, Kansas, Bonnie Tyler, Jeff Buckley, RUN-DMC Feat. Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Journey, Toto and many more.
For all the many recordings of Duffy Power in the 1960s and the '70s that eventually found release, his 1973 album on the GSF label (sometimes reported to have come out in 1972) was the only full-length Power LP that came out shortly after the material it contained was recorded. Confusingly, another album titled Duffy Power came out around the same time on the Spark label, though that LP contained tracks recorded in the late '60s. The Duffy Power album on the GSF label was entirely different, and has received relatively little attention even among his cult followers, in part because so much other Power material was reissued on CD prior to the record finally coming out in the compact disc format in 2007.