I could hardly remember any of the words. Louis, or somewhere in the Midwest, and we were almost in shock. “It was clearly felt that if we packed up and went home, the whole thing would just be unbearable. And the vote came out, after hours of discussion, that we should go on.” Eric Clapton continued: And all the crew had gone on to the next show, so we got them on the phone, and we tried to come up with a unanimous decision about whether we should go home or whether we should go on. “I had a meeting with all the bands and the managers.

And then a bit later, someone discovered the wreckage. And I was woken about seven in the morning by my manager, Roger Forrester, saying that the helicopter with Stevie Ray and our chaps hadn’t come back. “And once we came out of that, we just took off for Chicago. There was a convoy of helicopters, about five of them, and they had to go back through this very thick fog up to about 100 feet above the ground.” He was in the helicopter with Stevie Ray, as were Nigel Browne and Colin Smythe of my crew. “Yeah, Bobby was a tremendous guy, a very funny man. Your agent, Bobby Brooks, also died in the crash.

I mean, there were more people involved, and the death of my son was a directly personal situation. Much in the same way as I did to my son’s. What Eric Clapton said about Stevie Ray Vaughan after his tragic death: