More than half a century since the release of “Layla,” one of the most iconic tracks in Eric Clapton’s canon, Rita Coolidge ...

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In 1970, Eric Clapton wrote his secret love, Pattie Boyd, one of the most famous classic rock love songs, “Layla.” Before he showed his tune to the object of his affection, Clapton sent Boyd, the wife ...

George Harrison was shocked when a reporter asked him if he’d written a musical rebuttal to Eric Clapton’s “Layla.” In 1970, Clapton wrote the song about George’s first wife, Pattie Boyd, and used it ...

Artists can influence other artists without even realizing they’re doing so, and few songs embody this invisible phenomenon quite like “Layla”, which Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon first wrote and ...

It's one of the most famous, and possibly infamous, rock songs of all time, a yearning scorcher Eric Clapton wrote about his mad love for Pattie Boyd, who was then the wife of his close friend George ...

What if someone released an impassioned twin-guitar genius record and nobody cared? That’s basically what happened – at least initially – with the only album from Derek and the Dominos. Issued on Nov.

MOORHEAD — Music is in Derek Trucks’ blood. He is the nephew of founding Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks, is named after the short-lived Eric Clapton band Derek and the Dominos and married ...

“He drove a huge old Caddy with ‘Domino’ on the license plate,” Jason Isbell said of Bobby Whitlock, in a 2012 piece Isbell penned for Lone Star Music Magazine. Isbell wrote that as part of an ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Pattie Boyd poses next to the original artwork by E. Frandsen De Schomberg, ...