Song, though many argued that the win was for sentimental reasons (following And “Layla” wonĪ Grammy, more than two decades after it was originally recorded, for Best Rock Live albums in history with a purported 26,000,000 copies sold. Propelled by “Layla” and “Tears In Heaven,” Unpluggedīecame Clapton’s biggest selling-album, as well as one of the biggest-selling Recording, but had no idea who it was, especially given the Derek and theĭominos moniker. Song to a new generation of listeners who may have heard the original That version later appeared on his own Unplugged album, introducing the Received credit for the song, which would have generated an incredible amountġ992 Clapton recorded an acoustic version of “Layla” for MTV Unplugged. Rita Coolidge, in her book Delta Lady: A Memoir by Rita Coolidge, also asserts that she should have Place on it … I think ‘Layla’ rocks without a piano on it.” Piano coda taints the integrity of this incredibly beautiful song. Jim took the melody from Rita’s song andĭidn’t give her credit for writing it. Has no place on Eric’s incredibly soul-on-the-line-for-the-world-to-hear songĪbout his world and his experience. Songwriting session … I still don’t think that it’s rock ‘n’ roll and really ‘Time.’ I didn’t hear it as rock ‘n’ roll and bowed out of the little Guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called Whitlock continued, “Rita and Jim were up there in the
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Garfield’s old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an I know because in the Delaney & Bonnie days I lived in John Not Jim’s! Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend RitaĬoolidge. Nothing to do with this song that Eric wrote entirely himself. Keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, who had his own recollection and opinion about the Website, though, New York City broadcasting executive Linda Wnek interviewed Dominos We have that?’ So he was happy to give us that part. … We caught him playing this one day and said, ‘Come on, man. Going back into the studio and recording his own album without any of us
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Told Guitar Player magazine, “Jim Gordon … had been secretly Some of the greatest records to come out of Los Angeles in the 1960s. That section was credited to Gordon, who had worked as a session drummer on
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Memorable was the long piano coda that comprised the second half of the song. But if the suspicion about its origin is true, it was based on theįirst seven notes of King’s vocal melody, and not a guitar line, andĪllman brought it in at a much faster tempo.
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Go Passing By,” the “Layla” intro riff is one of the most famous in music Lick that Allman supposedly based on an Albert King blues song, “As the Years With an introductory minor pentatonic guitar When the edited version of “Layla” was released to radio as a single in 1972, it did fairly well, but by this time Allman was dead and the band had broken up. The album might have done big business had Clapton been up front about being the big name in the group, but instead, it stalled on the charts. The song was inspired by Clapton’s reading of the classic Persian unrequited love story, the epic poem Layla and Manjun. “Layla” was a song Clapton wrote, with Dominos drummer Jim Gordon, about his forbidden love for the wife of his close friend George Harrison (she eventually became Clapton’s wife). The direction of 1970s rock guitar, performed by a band called Derek and theĭominos, as Clapton didn’t want to use his name for the marquee value. Its standout track “Layla,” the album became a timeless record that helped determine Went into Florida’s Criteria Studios to record what would become one of the Clapton, with a band of stellar musicians that included the late Duane Allman,