Layla – Derek and the Dominos

Posted on November 7, 2009. Filed under: 1972 July singles, Top 40 records | Tags: , , |

Chart Position: 10

  • Written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon
  • Lead vocals: Eric Clapton
  • #27 on Rolling Stone magazines list of 500 Greatest Songs
  • Total Guitar magazines #6 guitar riff
  • Drummer Jim Gordon wrote the capo that concludes the song
  • Derek and the Dominos is an ad hoc band that recorded only two LPs
  • Slide guitar: Duanne Allman
  • Recorded in Miami FL in 1970
  • Originally released in an edited form in 1971
  • Clapton wrote this song to express his anguish over his unrequited love for Patti Boyd, then-wife of ex-Beatle George Harrison
  • Clapton eventually married Boyd in 1979
  • Clapton later wrote ‘Wonderful Tonight’ (1978) for Boyd
  • Gordon was an in-demand session drummer at one time; he played in sessions for Joe Cocker, Beach Boys and George Harrison, among others
  • Gordon’s music career ended in 1981 as a result of his developing acute paranoid schizophrenia; he later murdered his mother, was convicted and sent to prison
  • Duanne Allman was a member of Allman Brothers Band; he died in a motorcycle wreck in Macon GA in 1971
  • Bassist Carl Radle died of kidney failure in May 1980
  • Later recorded by Herbie Mann (1974), John Fahey (1984), Larry Carlton (1989), Charlie Daniels (1991), Eric Clapton (1992), Henri Salvador (1994), Jocelyn Brown (1995), 386 DX (2000), Morgentot (2001), Bobby Broom (2001) and David Garfield & Cats (2005)

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