Eric Clapton - Turn Up Down -1980- - Unreleased... -

The archivist sat in the dark of the vault, her heart hammering. She knew why it was unreleased. It wasn't because it was bad. It was because it was true . In 1980, Eric Clapton was trying to be a survivor, a hitmaker, a respectable elder statesman in waiting. This tape was the sound of the man he was trying to kill.

It was a direct, almost ugly swipe at his own mythology. The “Slowhand” persona. The “legend.” The song was a suicide note written to his own ego. Eric Clapton - Turn Up Down -1980- - Unreleased...

Some doors, she thought, are closed for a reason. And some songs are never meant to be turned up—or down. The archivist sat in the dark of the

“So I’ll turn up down, and turn down up. And drink the silence from a broken cup.” It was because it was true