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 ...

Two legendary albums recorded in the same year using the same musicians, but released by completely different artists... Such an abundance of musical riches could have happened only in the early 1970s ...

While Derek and the Dominos’ Layla is heralded for its electric guitar riff, its cinematic piano outro is considered by many fans to be a classic contribution to the iconic rock song in its own right.