"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.

What began as a short-lived supergroup quickly became the backdrop for one of rock’s most famous real-life love stories set to music.

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 ...

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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 ...