Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eric Clapton performs at the "Live Aid Concert" on July 13, 1985 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the world of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pattie Boyd got a reminder of her place in rock history this week. The former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton ...

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 ...

Clapton originally recorded the song on his 1970 collaboration with Duane Allman, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs." Allman doesn't appear on this version, captured on July 20, 1974, at Long Beach ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 55 years later, the song remains one of rock's most enduring anthems, still drawing new generations of listeners to both ...

This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. By 1970, Eric Clapton had fallen desperately — and, at that point, unrequitedly — in love with the ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at the best of the songs that even now continue to define his legacy. It starts with Derek and the Dominos because the songs on “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” are more of a piece ...