Date 20/08/2018 - News People
Roger Goodgroves/REX/Shutterstock; IBL/REX/Shutterstock When Eric Clapton announced his Christmas album Happy Xmas, it appeared to be a typical move by a rock legend. But buried in between tracks like ?White Christmas? and ?Silent Night? is a surprising track: ?Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii).? It?s unclear what personal connection Clapton has to the late DJ, who struggled with alcohol before he was found dead of apparent suicide on April 20th. ?It was the only thing I thought was worth living for, and the idea that people were about to try and remove me from alcohol was so terrible that I drank and drank and drank, and they had to practically carry me into the clinic.?
