Eric Clapton - Clapton Family Album Fears

ERIC CLAPTON fears his new album BACK HOME will flop - because he was too happy during the writing period.

The 60-year-old guitarist is convinced his most acclaimed works were a product of his melancholy outlook and was shocked when his new wife MELIA McENERY inspired him to write up-beat songs.

And he difficulty not boasting about his wonderful family.

Clapton says, "This album had to be about the family because what else in my life could I sing about? I don't have any interest in politics.

"Writing about a relationship that is productive and successful and loving without being boring or self-indulgent is difficult.

"It's so much easier writing in anger or sadness about something that's gone and lost. I kept stopping because I didn't think it would work."