“Circus Left Town”, also known as “Circus” is a ballad written by the British recording artist Eric Clapton. The rock musician wrote the song about the last night he spent with his then four-year-old son Conor. Although Clapton played and recorded the song for his 1992 million seller live album Unplugged, he decided to release […]
Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Derrick O’Connor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and the second installment in the Lethal Weapon series. Gibson and Glover respectively reprise […]
Journeyman is a 1989 album by Eric Clapton. Heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction and had recently found sobriety, the album has a 1980s electronic sound, but it also includes blues songs like “Before You Accuse Me”, “Running on Faith”, and “Hard Times.” “Bad Love” was released […]
“Run So Far” is a single by Eric Clapton from the album Journeyman, released in 1990. The song was written by George Harrison. Musicians Bass Darryl Jones Drums Jim Keltner Drums (programming) Jim Keltner Drums (programming) Jimmy Bralower Guitar Eric Clapton Guitar George Harrison Synthesizer Greg Phillinganes Synthesizer Rob Mounsey Percussion Carol Steele Background Vocals […]
“No Alibis” is a track from Eric Clapton‘s 1989 album Journeyman. It was released as a single in a shortened version, with “Running on Faith” (also on the Journeyman album) as the b-side. The 12″ single and CD maxi-singles, both released the following year, included the longer album version and also added live versions of […]
“Bad Love” is a rock song recorded by the British rock musician Eric Clapton, who co-wrote it with Foreigner’s lead guitarist Mick Jones. The track was released as the third single from Eric Clapton’s 1989 studio album Journeyman on March 10, 1990 for Reprise Records a sublabel of the Warner Music Group company. The rock […]
“Pretending” is a rock song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams. It was released in 1989 on Eric Clapton‘s Journeyman as the first track of the album. The song was released as the lead single from the album, backed with “Hard Times,” and reached #55 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the album’s […]
August is an album by Eric Clapton, released in 1986 by Duck Records/Warner Bros. Records. Primarily produced by Phil Collins, in association with longtime Clapton associate Tom Dowd, August became Clapton’s biggest-selling album to date. Among the songs on the album are the Dowd/Clapton-produced signature tune “It’s in the Way That You Use It” (co-written […]
“Tearing Us Apart” is a song recorded by English blues rock guitarist and singer Eric Clapton on his 1986 album August, produced by Phil Collins. The song was about “the committee”, the group of Pattie Boyd’s friends whom Clapton blamed for coming between Pattie and him. “Tearing Us Apart” was a duet with Tina Turner […]
“Behind the Mask” is a synthpop song by electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, written by member Ryuichi Sakamoto and first produced in 1978 for a Seiko commercial. It was later released in 1979 as part of the band’s album Solid State Survivor with English lyrics added by Chris Mosdell. It was also a single […]