The Police also to headline Hyde Rock Calling festival

Slowhand on South Bank Show this Christmas, plus last chance to win a Fender!

Submit your best Slowhand covers in a special YouTube competition here

Uncut has a pair of tickets to give away to the Berkshire event

Clapton career highlight, inspired by Duane Allman, now on SACD

The legendary guitarist on his first musical steps and how the blues came to Surbiton.

That's as in Robert, the devil, and a hellhound, too...

If Scorsese skimps on the British blues in his box set, he compensates with a single spin-off disc focusing solely on Slowhand's contribution to the devil's music. Ten tracks trace Clapton's development through his days with John Mayall to Cream, Blind Faith and Derek And The Dominos. We also get "Rockin' Today" from the famous 1970 London sessions with Howlin' Wolf. There's nothing of more recent vintage, such as his 2001 collaboration with BB King. But it's still an impressive summary of Clapton's credentials as—surely—the greatest white blues man of them all.