♪ Eric Clapton -Change The World (Live)

 ♪ Eric Clapton -Change The World (라이브/듣기/가사) 

a.k.a. Slowhand. 

에릭클랩튼.

영국의 기타리스트이자 싱어송라이터, 전설의 기타리스트 중 한 사람으로 꼽힌다.

위키백과를 참조하자면 어마어마한 레전드 급 코멘트들이 쏟아져 나온다. 

블루스락의 창시자라거나,  하드락의 창시자이기도 하다거나 등등... (궁금하면 클릭)

생각하고보니...그리 손이 느린 연주자도 아니건데, 그런 레전드가 아닐지언데 왜 별명이 저래?

처음으로 가져본 의문.

짧은 영어로 wikipedia 를 보다보니, 

60년대, 에릭클랩튼이 The Yardbirds 라는 밴드를 하던 시절 

공연중에 기타 스트링이 끊어졌는데데 유유히 무대에서 줄을 갈아끼웠고

영국 청중들은 그걸 천천히 박수치며 (slow handclap) 기다렸다나?

그래서 후에 누군가 그걸 놀리면서 "연주는 참 빠른데..." 라고 놀리면서 붙은 별명이라나 뭐라나.

It was during this time period that Clapton's Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, he would stay on stage and replace it. The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing what is called a "slow handclap". Clapton told his official biographer, Ray Coleman, that, "My nickname of 'Slowhand' came from Giorgio Gomelsky. He coined it as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words" - from Wiipedia

어쨌든!

후렴구만 들어도 기분이 늘 산뜻해 지는 노래!

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If I could reach the stars pull one down for you
Shine it on my heart so you could see the truth
That this love I have inside is everything it seems
But for now I find it's only in my dreams

If I can change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby if I could change the world

If I could be king even for a day
I'd take you as my queen
I'd have no other way
And our love will rule in this kingdom we have made
'Til then I'll be a fool wishing for the day

If I can change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby if I could change the world