NEW YORK — Eric Clapton is parting with dozens of guitars and amps at a New York City auction to benefit an alcohol and drug treatment center he founded in Antigua.
New York-Bonhams will offer the 70 guitars and 70 amps next Wednesday.
Among the highlights is a custom-made black Fender “Eric Clapton” signature Stratocaster, estimated at $20,000 to $30,000. It was used during the “Cream Reunion Shows” in New York and London in 2005.
A pair of 1970 Marshall vintage basket weave speaker cabinets are expected to fetch $8,000-$10,000.
The 65-year-old rock Hall of Famer is a recovered addict who established the non-profit Crossroads Centre in West Indies in 1998.
The British artist’s famous love song “Layla” was released in 1970 when he appeared with blues-rock band Derek and The Dominos.
Celebrity One-Stops are PopEater‘s way of highlighting your five favorite celebrities every month. According to you, most awesome readers, February’s biggest stars were a Grammy-nominated movie-star pop prodigy, a sexy Super Bowl performer, a guy on a drug he named after himself, a diva who came out of an egg, and a “mean girl” you know very well. See the full list after the jump. Without further ado, our top celebrities of February 2011: 1. Justin Bieber: Bieber did the unthinkable in February — he cut his hair. But Justin did give Ellen Degeneres (who has an oddly similar haircut) his chopped locks to auction off for charity. And queue the ‘awww’ track. Biebs lost the Best New Artist Grammy moderately gracefully. 
More than a third of the concerts announced so far for ArtsQuest’s new Musikfest Café already are half full, with two months until the first public show and some shows as far as four months away.
Britney Spears has said that fans will hear her “edgiest” and most “mature” sound to date on her new album Femme Fatale.The ‘Hold It Against Me’ singer told V magazine that she had spent the last two years working “really hard” on the album and believed it to be the “best” LP of her career.”I think Femme Fatale speaks for itself,” she said. “There’s nothing to say. I’ll let the music speak for me. I wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move your body in a different way. That’s what I want from the music I listen to. This record is for the clubs, or something you play before you go out at night.