“Thank you for rescuing me when I decided that I was going to quit music”: Eric Clapton pays emotional tribute to his Bluesbreaker bandmate and blues mentor John Mayall

Eric Clapton and John Mayall both performing on stage in the late 1960s.

Eric Clapton has paid an emotional tribute to his former Bluesbreaker bandmate John Mayall, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 90.

Mayall and Clapton formed one of the most potent and influential electric guitar forces in British blues during the ’60s, when the two teamed up under Mayall’s burgeoning Bluesbreakers collective.