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Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Clapton's 1992 single "Tears in Heaven" became a top five hit. It was written about the death of his son.
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In 1998, he founded the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility. He published his autobiography in 2007.
However, perhaps the most impressive achievement of Clapton's recent life is that he has finally moved past his days of drug addiction, alcoholism and womanizing, and settled into a happy and stable family life. "I am very happy," he said in a recent interview. "I think I've found a way to live as a result of all these near disasters,
which keeps me remembering how fortunate I am and how lucky I am and how much of a responsibility I have to stay the way I am right now."
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