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Tonight's Top Stop: Eric Clapton

Map It:  Gallery Pl-Chinatown 

Photo by Richard YoungFAMOUSLY HUMBLE guitar hero Eric Clapton recently told the AP that he's "definitely in decline" and that he was much more "proficient" a decade ago: If you want to hear the winner of 18 Grammys and his big band play hits like "I Shot the Sheriff," "Wonderful Tonight" and "Layla," catch Clapton tonight, before the man — pictured here with Dhani Harrison, son of the late George Harrison — falls apart entirely.

Clapton's story is well-chronicled (English lad rises from highly illegitimate birth to become a Yardbird, member of Cream, covet a Beatle's wife, sing "Cocaine," play "MTV Unplugged," date Naomi Campbell, etc.), but did you know that "Clapton Is God" was London's equivalent of Borf in the '60s?
» Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW; with the Robert Cray Band, 8 p.m., $40-$125; 202-628-3200. (Gallery Place-Chinatown)

» MORE TOP STOPS, including emo-ish rockers Sparta at the Black Cat, click here.

Photo by Richard Young

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