Few rock songs are as emotionally charged — or as personally complicated — as “Layla,” the Derek and the Dominos epic born out of an impossible love triangle involving Eric Clapton, George Harrison, ...

There are co-written songs, and then there is Eric Clapton’s “Layla”, which might be one of the most star-studded collaborations of rock ‘n’ roll history. From the song’s literary and literal ...

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 ...

The song achieved both critical and commercial success, charting first in 1972 again 20 years later as an acoustic version WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Eric Clapton’s song “Layla” was ...

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.

In 1964, Pattie Boyd was an international celebrity due to a successful modeling career. Early that year, Boyd appeared in a television advertising campaign helmed by UK-based American director ...

"We were a make-believe band," Clapton later said in an interview with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. "We were all hiding inside it," Clapton continued. "Derek and the Dominos — the whole thing.