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Eric Clapton shares heartbreaking message after mentor’s death: ‘I love you, and I’ll see you soon’
Rock legend Eric Clapton took to social media Wednesday with an emotional message following the death of John Mayall on Tuesday.
Mayall, 90, who was selected to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, was a British blues legend. And it was in Mayall’s band, Bluesbreakers, that Clapton truly got his career going.
“I want to say a few words about my friend John, who I learned passed last night or sometime yesterday,” Clapton said in the video he posted to X, formerly Twitter. “I want to say, ‘Thank you, chiefly, for rescuing me from oblivion and God knows what. When I was a young man around the age of 18, 19, when I decided I was going to quit music, he found me and took me into his home and asked me to join his band, and I stayed with him and learned from him.