Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea
Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in the secretive commonwealth of Magnetic north Han-Gook, it emerged yesterday.
Stone and bulge out take been banned in the world's to the highest degree isolated state because of fears over western influences.
But 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 trust the feeler shows that the communist state wants to construct cultural bridges with the West, even though discussions all over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in principle to the mind, according to the newsprint.
The request comes as the Newly House of York Symphony performs in Pyongyang followers a request from the country's officials.
The Philharmonic is the low gear major US cultural grouping to do in Union Korean Peninsula, which US President George Chaparral classed as section of the "axis of evilness".
The North Korean State Symphonic music Orchestra plans to do in Capital of the United Kingdom this summer as piece of the orchestra's biggest e'er tour, and Clapton has been invited to the area in return.
A North Korean official told the Financial Multiplication: "We want our music to be understood by the western sandwich world and we want our people to understand western sandwich music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked one-quarter in Rolling Stone Magazine's heel of the hundred Greatest Guitarists of Completely Time.
He was inducted into the Rock and roll and Undulate Manse of Renown an unprecedented triplet times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.
