Surely you recognize that lad, second from the right, reading a copy of The Beano on the cover of this John Mayall and the Blues Breakers record. Yep, that’s a young Eric Clapton. The blues guitar legend is too invested in his issue of the popular British kids comic to make eye contact with the photographer.

Thanks to Clapton’s choice of reading material, 1966′s Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton also came to be affectionately known as “The Beano Album.” Clapton left the band in mid-1966.

We’re not sure what ever became of old slowhand, but The Beano continues to this day.

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