Well, if you wanted a hit in the ‘80s, you could have done worse than call someone from Foreigner, who had had loads in the past few years, and that’s precisely what Clapton did.

— Eric Clapton, Guitar Player, July 1985 “He is very fast, and to my ears, a lot of the time he kind of goes over the top,” Clapton continued. “But that's because I'm a more simple player.