ERIC CLAPTON SELLS GUN COLLECTION.

British rock legend ERIC CLAPTON has earned $659,000 (£443,000) from an auction of 13 of his prized shotguns. All of the weapons were engraved with the Cream veteran's initials EPC - and one pair came with a set of ornate pictures showing Clapton strumming a guitar under a tree. A spokesman for Holt's auctioneers in Norfolk, England, says, "He sold because he has developed a preference for a particular type of gun."