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 ...

It's one of the most famous, and possibly infamous, rock songs of all time, a yearning scorcher Eric Clapton wrote about his mad love for Pattie Boyd, who was then the wife of his close friend George ...

More than half a century since the release of “Layla,” one of the most iconic tracks in Eric Clapton’s canon, Rita Coolidge ...

In 1970, Eric Clapton formed Derek & the Dominos and released “Layla,” a song about his love for Pattie Boyd, then the wife of his close friend and neighbor George Harrison of the Beatles. The song ...

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 ...