{"id":31152,"date":"2025-01-06T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-6-1987-eric-clapton-kicked-off-his-first-royal-albert-hall-residency\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:00:51","slug":"on-this-day-jan-6-1987-eric-clapton-kicked-off-his-first-royal-albert-hall-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-6-1987-eric-clapton-kicked-off-his-first-royal-albert-hall-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 6, 1987: Eric Clapton kicked off his first Royal Albert Hall residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Jan. 6, 1987 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> kicked off a six-night residency at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, treating the crowd to such classic songs as \u201cI Shot the Sheriff,\u201d \u201cWonderful Tonight,\u201d \u201cCocaine\u201d and more, including <strong>Cream<\/strong> tracks \u201cWhite Room\u201d and \u201cSunshine of Your Love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The residency soon became an almost yearly event for Clapton. In 1991 he played a whopping 24 shows at Royal Albert Hall, which broke his own record for the longest run of concerts at the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During that run, Clapton performed with three lineups \u2014 a rock band, a blues band and an orchestra. In June\u00a0he released a box set,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Definitive 24 Nights, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">featuring performances from that run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clapton&#8217;s\u00a0most recent Royal Albert Hall residency took place in May 2024, playing four nights at the venue.\u00a0He\u2019s set to return for three nights in May 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 6, 1987 &#8230; Eric Clapton kicked off a six-night residency at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, treating the crowd to such classic songs as \u201cI Shot the Sheriff,\u201d \u201cWonderful Tonight,\u201d \u201cCocaine\u201d and more, including Cream tracks \u201cWhite Room\u201d and \u201cSunshine of Your Love.\u201d The residency soon became<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-6-1987-eric-clapton-kicked-off-his-first-royal-albert-hall-residency\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}