{"id":31203,"date":"2025-01-13T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-claptons-mtv-unplugged-performance-to-debut-in-theaters\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:03:29","slug":"eric-claptons-mtv-unplugged-performance-to-debut-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-claptons-mtv-unplugged-performance-to-debut-in-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton\u2019s &#8216;MTV Unplugged&#8217; performance to debut in theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-13\/M_EricClaptonUnplugged630_082422.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Reprise Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>\u2019s iconic <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">MTV Unplugged<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> performance is coming to the big screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Eric Clapton Unplugged \u2026 Over 30 Years Later<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is set to debut in select U.S. and U.K. theaters on Jan.\u00a027 and Jan. 28. The 90-minute special will then stream on Paramount+ starting Feb. 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the original <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Unplugged<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> special, the new release will\u00a0feature new content, including commentary from Clapton about the inspiration behind the songs and footage of performances shot for the crew before he took the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clapton recorded his episode of <em>MTV Unplugged<\/em> on Jan. 16, 1992, in front of a small audience at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The taping featured performances of such songs as \u201cTears in Heaven,\u201d about the death of his 4-year-old son,\u00a0<strong>Conor<\/strong>, and an acoustic version of \u201cLayla.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A live album of the special was released in August 1992 and went to #1 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200 chart. It also won three Grammy Awards, including Record and Song of the Year for \u201cTears In Heaven,&#8221; and\u00a0sold 26 million copies worldwide to become the bestselling live album of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets for <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Eric Clapton Unplugged \u2026 Over 30 Years Later<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/claptonunplugged.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on sale now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprise Records Eric Clapton\u2019s iconic MTV Unplugged performance is coming to the big screen. Eric Clapton Unplugged \u2026 Over 30 Years Later is set to debut in select U.S. and U.K. theaters on Jan.\u00a027 and Jan. 28. The 90-minute special will then stream on Paramount+ starting Feb. 12. In addition<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-claptons-mtv-unplugged-performance-to-debut-in-theaters\/\">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\/31203"}],"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=31203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}