Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea
Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in the secretive state of North Dae-Han-Min-Gook, it emerged yesterday.
Rock and crop up possess been banned in the world's well-nigh isolated land because of fears over western influences.
Simply the legendary English singer and guitar player has been asked to perform in the capital Capital of North Korea next year, according to the Financial Times.
Diplomats believe the feeler shows that the communist state wants to build cultural harry Bridges with the Due west, even though discussions over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in rule to the idea, according to the newsprint.
The request comes as the Freshly House of York Philharmonic performs in Capital of North Korea followers a request from the country's officials.
The Symphony is the low gear major US cultural mathematical group to perform in Magnetic north Korean Peninsula, which US President St. George Bush classed as function of the "axis of evilness".
The Magnetic north Korean State Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform in Capital of the United Kingdom this summer as part of the orchestra's biggest of all time circuit, and Clapton has been invited to the state in return.
A Second Earl of Guilford Korean official told the Financial Times: "We desire our euphony to be understood by the western earth and we want our people to see western music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked fourth part in Pealing Stone Magazine's list of the hundred Greatest Guitarists of Totally Clock time.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll up Hall of Fame an unprecedented trey times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.
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