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Eric Clapton’s forthcoming 14-track Christmas LP is full of holiday classics like “White Christmas” and “Silent Night.” But the rock legend surprised the EDM community by including a tribute to the late Avicii<\/a> on “Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii),” which is slated to be the album’s seventh track.<\/p>\n

Twenty-eight-year-old superstar producer Avicii was pronounced dead of apparent suicide on April 20<\/a>. He had struggled with substance abuse throughout his career \u2014 something Clapton, too, struggled with for decades before getting sober in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the lowest moments of my life, the only reason I didn\u2019t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to drink any more if I was dead,\u201d Clapton wrote in his 2007 autobiography. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Happy Xmas<\/em> is available for pre-order and will be out Oct. 12.<\/p>\n

H\/T: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii)’ will be one of the tracks on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s Christmas album, due out Oct. 12.","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":340845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[137,9181,40152,3513],"yoast_head":"\nEric Clapton will pay homage to Avicii on forthcoming 'Happy Xmas' album<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"'Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii)' will be one of the tracks on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's Christmas album, due out Oct. 12.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eric Clapton will pay homage to Avicii on forthcoming 'Happy Xmas' album\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"'Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii)' will be one of the tracks on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's Christmas album, due out Oct. 12.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dancing Astronaut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-20T21:28:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/claptonavicii.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Robyn Dexter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robyn Dexter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/\",\"name\":\"Eric Clapton will pay homage to Avicii on forthcoming 'Happy Xmas' album\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-20T21:28:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-08-20T21:28:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8b88549fa5df52bd65541eaf4603e6a4\"},\"description\":\"'Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii)' will be one of the tracks on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's Christmas album, due out Oct. 12.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2018\/08\/eric-clapton-will-pay-homage-avicii-forthcoming-happy-xmas-album\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Eric Clapton will pay homage to Avicii on forthcoming ‘Happy Xmas’ album\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/\",\"name\":\"Dancing Astronaut\",\"description\":\"EDM, trap, techno, deep house, dubstep\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8b88549fa5df52bd65541eaf4603e6a4\",\"name\":\"Robyn Dexter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f58dbeef1e565e2f71a1ca7be99ed82?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f58dbeef1e565e2f71a1ca7be99ed82?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Robyn Dexter\"},\"description\":\"Robyn Dexter is one of DA's managing editors and the creator of Dexter's Beat Laboratory. 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