E.C.

My first time hearing him was around P6 with his hit, Change The World.
He looked like nerd with his brown rimmed glasses, curly hair and simple clothes.
Today I'm quite a fan of Eric Clapton. Fan of some of his songs actually:
Blues Eyes Blue, Wonderful Tonight, Tears in Heaven and my favourite Layla.

A fan because his riffs and licks are simple yet really groovy.
A fan because his songs make really good guitar songs for me to play.
A fan because his voice is really expressive.

I ain't that sure how his other songs were inspired and produced but the above songs were generally inspired by love and grief in his relationships. Like Tears in Heaven, a song where one can feel part of his grief for his dead son who fell from the 53rd storey house window.
Recently he announced that he would not perform the song anymore because there's difficulty connecting to the feelings he had when he first started on the song, and now he doesn't wish for the feelings to return.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapton%2C_Eric