By David FrickeOriginal Source: rollingstone.comThere is a remarkable scene early in Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars, the new Showtime documentary about the guitarist's career, that sums up his meteoric rise as a British-blues prodigy and worldwide superstar: Bob Dylan in a London hotel room in 1965 watching John Mayall's Bluesbreakers on television and raving over that band's guitarist – Clapton, now 72, then barely out of his teens. "I still can't believe that's real," Clapton says, laughing, in a New York hotel lobby the day after a screening. "I thought, 'Oh, that must be Photoshop-ed.'"Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck, Life in 12 Bars also has extraordinary footage of Clapton onstage with Cream in the Sixties and revealing interviews with the women in his life including his grandmother Rose – who raised him after Clapton's 16-year-old mother, Patricia, left England with his father, a Canadian airman – and first wife Pattie Boyd, the object of Clapton's romantic obsession on 1970's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The film is unflinching, too, about the deep blues inside those he sang, with painfully...click here to continue reading