SPOT CHECKING DEF LEPPARD

LONDON—Directly or indirectly, Eric Clapton is responsible for my being here.

Eric Clapton—who left the Yardbirds and left John Mayall to form the inescapable '60s monolith of rock bands, the one that begat a music form that not only outlived the group, but the entire decade, and the next and possibly the ’80s as well.