About the Author

Gene Shaw studied photography with Jan Kather at Elmira College. He toured with the Psychedelic Furs in the 1980s, and he has been the house photographer for many clubs and concert halls, including The Ritz, Tattoo, and Irving Plaza. For more than three decades, he has traveled all over the world photographing Eric Clapton, and his pictures have appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Time, People, George, and books and museums.