“I was in my car and I remember thinking ‘I have to find out before the day is over who that guitar player is. And then a bit later, someone discovered the wreckage. And I was woken about seven in the morning by my manager, Roger Forrester, saying that the helicopter with Stevie Ray and our chaps hadn’t come back. And once we came out of that, we just took off for Chicago. There was a convoy of helicopters, about five of them, and they had to go back through this very thick fog up to about 100 feet above the ground. He was in the helicopter with Stevie Ray, as were Nigel Browne and Colin Smythe of my crew. “Bobby was a tremendous guy, a very funny man. In the interview by Rolling Stone, Eric Clapton recalled the incident as: And I had to leave just to preserve some kind of sanity or confidence in myself.” Almost like one of those mystic Sufi guys with one finger pointing up and one finger down. “Where everything he sang and played flowed straight down from heaven. According to the musician, losing his son and the death of Vaughan taught him that every day in one’s life is a blessing. Besides, knowing that he could have been in that helicopter that day possibly affected Clapton’s whole life. Both of these heartbreaking incidents deeply scared the musician. Following this tragic incident, Clapton’s son Conor died after falling out of a window at the age of four.
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