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"I want to say thank you for rescuing me from oblivion": Eric Clapton pays emotional tribute to John Mayall

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1966.

Eric Clapton has paid emotional tribute to British blues legend John Mayall, whose death at the age of 90 was announced yesterday.

“I want to say a few words about my friend John," says a clearly emotional Clapton, in a video posted to social media. "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 or 19, when I decided I was going to quit music."

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