The song peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100.

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 ...

In the world of rock music, 1970 was a year of disasters. From the Beatles’ breakup to the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, it felt that year as if the very pillars of rock music were being ...

Pattie Boyd, 82, supported ex-husband Eric Clapton by attending his April 20–21 warm-up shows in Guildford, England, where he played songs written about her. On Instagram on April 24, Boyd called the ...

"Layla" wasn't the only Derek and the Dominos song to be directly inspired by Boyd. As Clapton explained in his autobiography, he wrote "Bell Bottom Blues" for his pal's then-spouse after she asked ...

For the past six years, Eric Clapton has been disappointing fans by playing a stripped-down rendition of “Layla” on the acoustic guitar at this concerts as opposed to the original, electric one. He ...

Imagine Eric Clapton's 'Layla,' one of rock music's definitive love songs, with an Indian twist. There would be Indian instruments - ghoongroo, sitar, tabla - and it would probably be sung in Hindi.

Legendary rock muse Pattie Boyd, who inspired Eric Clapton “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” and, reputedly, George Harrison‘s “Something,” is coming out with an autobiography, Wonderful Today, and ...

Jim Gordon, a prolific and in-demand session drummer for dozens of acts who joined Eric Clapton in writing “Layla” for their band Derek and the Dominos and later was convicted of murdering his mother, ...

07:32, Mon, Dec 14, 2020 Updated: 07:33, Mon, Dec 14, 2020 Eric Clapton was a good friend of The Beatles, especially George Harrison. One person in George’s life also grew close to Eric, his wife ...