Typically, one-hit wonders are pop songs repeatedly blasted on the Top 40 Radio for a year or so before becoming culturally irrelevant and largely forgotten. However, some one-hit wonders are released ...
Slowhand reaches all the parts that other guitarists just cannot reach!! Matt Rumble Cambridge If someone asks me, what is the most remarkable thing that has happened in the last century, i'd have to ...
The song achieved both critical and commercial success, charting first in 1972 again 20 years later as an acoustic version WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Eric Clapton’s song “Layla” was ...
Few rock songs are as emotionally charged — or as personally complicated — as “Layla,” the Derek and the Dominos epic born out of an impossible love triangle involving Eric Clapton, George Harrison, ...
As backstories go it's up there with the best: mercurially-gifted superstar guitarist with a passion for the blues falls hopelessly in love with the wife of his best friend, an ex-Beatle, then writes ...
Derek and the Dominos was a British-American blues-rock band formed in 1970, centered around guitarist Eric Clapton, that ...
It boasts the most recognisable guitar riff in history and was written about one of the most tortured love triangles in rock – it’s fair to say that “Layla” has all the ingredients of a classic. Eric ...