Today

14
Mar

1966: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers pre-record an episode of “Saturday Club” Radio Show at BBC Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street, London (broadcast 19 March)
1967: Cream gig at Kings Hall in Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales
1978: EC’s album, “Slowhand,” receives a Platinum Record Award from the RIAA (US)
1981: EC’s US Tour to promote “Another Ticket” is cancelled due to EC’s hospitalization for a perforated ulcer
1985: EC’s European Tour to promote “Behind The Sun” stops at Drammenshallen in Oslo, Norway
2005: EC and BB King induct Buddy Guy into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, New York – it’s pre-recorded for television broadcast on VH-1
2007: EC’s 2006 / 2007 World Tour stops at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California
2013: EC opens his worldwide 50th Anniversary Tour at US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona