On March 14, 1981, Eric Clapton was admitted to St. Paul’s United Hospital where he was confined for several weeks for a perforated ulcer. He had been given a pain-killing injection before his previous show before a sellout crowd in Madison on the 13th. He went straight to the hospital when he got to Minnesota. His manager and his wife, Pattie Boyd, were “stuck in a hotel in Minneapolis with ten feet of snow outside. Minneapolis in winter is not the most exciting place. The lake (sic) is frozen and the locals’ idea of fun is to drive a car into the middle and place bets when it will sink.” (from Pattie’s autobiography)