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

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Artists can influence other artists without even realizing they’re doing so, and few songs embody this invisible phenomenon quite like “Layla”, which Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon first wrote and ...

Jim Gordon, a drummer with a co-writing credit on the hit song “Layla,” and who murdered his mother after suffering from schizophrenia, died on Monday (March 13). He was 77 years old. A spokesman ...

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 ...

“He drove a huge old Caddy with ‘Domino’ on the license plate,” Jason Isbell said of Bobby Whitlock, in a 2012 piece Isbell penned for Lone Star Music Magazine. Isbell wrote that as part of an ...