The song achieved both critical and commercial success, charting first in 1972 again 20 years later as an acoustic version ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, Pattie Boyd was an international celebrity due to a successful modeling career. Early that year, Boyd appeared in a television advertising campaign helmed by UK-based American director ...

Unrequited love—is there anything more painful? Indeed, such is the inspiration for the all-time classic rock song by Eric Clapton. The six-string artist took from his own experience and that of a ...

Clapton and his band of top-notch musicians and singers moved between electric and acoustic sets, filled with traditional blues covers heartfelt ballads along with well-known hits thrown in.