POP/ROCK - July 31, 1989

More than 50,000 Mozambicans jammed Maputo’s National Stadium Sunday for British rock artist Eric Clapton and African musicians in a concert coinciding with the final day of a congress of the country’s ruling party. Clapton, heading the bill that included artists from Zaire and South Africa, kept the crowd on its feet, taking them through his days with Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominoes as police and soldiers in fatigues patrolled the perimeter of the stadium. Scores of white South Africans, international aid workers and foreign embassy officials also attended the concert, which was a stop on the final leg of Clapton’s Southern African tour (he already has played in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Swaziland).