Song of the Day 5/18: Eric Clapton, “Change the World”

Eric Clapton, who’s been in the news several times during the pandemic for his anti-vax and anti-quarantine views, has had to cancel some concerts because, inevitably, he’s caught Covid. What’s surprising is that he’s touring at all, considering his claims about his reaction to getting the Astra-Zeneca vaccine last year.

I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted 10 days. … About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks. I feared I would never play again (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle). But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone …

Clapton, 77, is worth an estimated $450 million, so it’s not as if he needs the money. As you can tell by how many people he’s played with over the years, he seems to crave the work.

Clapton released “Change the World” as a single in 1996, and it wound up winning a Grammy. But several months earlier Wynonna Judd included it on her “Revelations” album. Her version gives the tune, composed by a trio of Nashville writers, a more country treatment than Clapton, who got a bluesier sound by hiring Babyface to produce it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvyJ1ALWWw