Eric Clapton recently talked about a mysterious missing album he created with Phil Collins.
Eric Clapton opens up on the album
During an interview on Harmless Dave, Clapton was questioned about hidden songs and tracks, including a recently released Jerry Williams song called “Higher Power.” This led him to reveal details about an unreleased collaboration that has disappeared over the years.
“There’s a load of demos that he made which have kind of mysteriously disappeared,” Clapton explained.
“I mean, there’s one guy that I know probably has them and you know, when I signed with Warner Brothers, me and Phil Collins made an album. And I sent it to Warner Brothers and they sent it back and said, ‘We can’t. There’s nothing here we can work with.’”
Clapton then highlighted why the record label rejected the project. He noted that the collaboration was driven by creative passion rather than commercial appeal.
“We were just having fun, you know, we were making music that we like, but they needed something more impressive for the market. They needed a single or at least a couple of singles for the thing to be marketable,” he said.
When asked directly about the whereabouts of these songs, Clapton implied to a specific individual who may hold the key to recovering the lost material.
“You have to uh campaign with Lenny Waronker. He needs to look dig in his desk and find these demos because they are stupendous,” Clapton responded.
