1977 - Slowhand - Eric Clapton

45 Years Ago - 1977 Eric Clapton released his fifth album Slowhand.

Some Background vocals were from Yvonne Elliman.

The first single "Lay Down Sally" made #3 Hot 100 and crossed to the country chart at #26.

The next single "Cocaine" as Clapton describes it is as an anti-drug song intended to warn listeners about its addictiveness and deadliness. He called the song "quite cleverly anti-cocaine", noting -

"It's no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat. So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be "anti"—which the song "Cocaine" is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought ... from a distance ... or as it goes by ... it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine." (#30 Hot 100)

The last single from the album "Wonderful Tonight" made #16 and #39 AC.