461 Ocean Boulevard
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Publication |
July 1974 |
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LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
44 m 21 s |
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461 Ocean Boulevard is the second studio album by British guitarist Eric Clapton . It was released in 1974 and was number one on the American album charts.
background
After Derek and the Dominos broke up in 1971, Eric Clapton fell into two-year isolation due to his massive heroin use. During this time, Clapton did not perform publicly until 1974, apart from the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) and the Rainbow Concert (1973), and did not record any more material. It was only after Pete Townshend helped him get musically active again after rehab that Clapton was able to go back to work. He went to Miami and started playing with a new band in a relaxed atmosphere.
At that time he lived for about a month in the house "461 Ocean Boulevard" in Golden Beach ( Florida ), after which the album is named and which is shown on the album cover. During the recording work, George Terry, whom Clapton had hired as guitarist for the album, heard songs by the group The Wailers . Their song I Shot the Sheriff was spontaneously covered, which became a hit and also promoted Bob Marley's career. I Shot the Sheriff was Clapton's only number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 .
Track list of the LP and CD
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Original LP
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First CD release
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Deluxe Edition Title List
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Title list of the Expanded Edition
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Guest musician and production
Al Jackson, Jr. played the drums on the recording of Give Me Strength. Albhy Galuten was responsible for the album on the synthesizer , piano and clavichord. Both Tom Bernfield and Marcy Levy appear on the recordings as background singers . Levy also played the harmonica . The producer of the album was Tom Dowd . Bill Levenson produced the Deluxe Edition. The sound engineers were Ron Fawcus, Andy Knight and Karl Richardson.
reception
Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described 461 Ocean Boulevard as having a "relaxed, friendly atmosphere with a strong blues influence." He awarded four and a half of the five possible rating units for the album. The album was number one on the Billboard 200 , number three on the British and number eleven on the German album charts. The single I Shot the Sheriff reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 , number four in the German single charts , number ninth in the British single charts, ranked 19 in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 , ranked 33 on the R&B singles chart and reached gold Status in the USA. The single Willie and the Hand Jive reached number 26 on the US singles chart and stayed in the charts for nine weeks.
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Japan (RIAJ)
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- | 70,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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 platinum
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1,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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 gold
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1,000,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 1 × platinum |
2,070,000 |
Main article: Eric Clapton / Music Sales Awards
Web links
- 461 Ocean Boulevard on Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brett Sokol: Musical Mecca: After 30 years, they still flock to that most fabled of oceanfront homes. Article in the Miami New Times, December 9, 2004.
- ↑ a b 461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton | Awards | AllMusic , accessed December 13, 2014, allmusic.com
- ↑ Eric Clapton - Give Me Strength The '74 / '75 Recordings. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Oricon Entertainment (Ed.): Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 . Roppongi, Tokyo 2006, ISBN 4-87131-077-9 ( Memento in the Internet archive [accessed February 25, 2020]).
- ↑ Great Britain's Million Sellers. In: Cashbox . American Radio History Archive, July 5, 1975, accessed February 25, 2020 .