Eric was born in Surrey, England on March 30th, 1945. He was born in his grandpas house and he grew up thinking that his garndapa was his dad and his grandmother was his mom and his mom was his sister. When he was finally told he and his mom still acted as if they were brother and sister.
Eric started guitar at the age of 15. He went to collage at Kingston College of Art for stained-glass and was expelled at age 17 for playing guitar in class and refused to stop. After that he worked manual labor and in his freetime played in a bunch of brittish bands. He would constanly have to fix guitar srings in gigs because he was so hard on them. Which gave him the nickname slowhand cause when he canged strings everyone