Eric Patrick Clapton, was born on 30th march 1945 in Ripley, England. He was the son of 16 years old Patricia Molly Clapton (7 January 1929 -March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 - 1985), a 24-year-old Canadian soldier stationed in England. He was raised by his grandparents under the illusion that he was their own son and Pat being his older sister. And when she returned to England 9 years after his birth with his 6 years old half brother, it turned his life into confusion. He entered the teens confused, angry and isolated with one only reality; his love for music.

This Stratocaster model was build to recreate Erics alltime favourite guitar; Blackie. Even though a true copy is hard to make, is this quite close...... After seing Steve Winwood play his white strat, Eric went to a store called Sho-Bud in Nashville, where he bought a hole bunch of strats. He gave one to Steve, one to Pete Townshend and one to George Harrison. From the rest of the strats he made his own personal Stratocaster, Blackie