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Eric Clapton may have featured on some of the finest songs ever written, but he felt that only a handful of tunes had stayed with him since the beginning.
Eric Clapton took a lot of chances throughout his career post-Cream, but he felt that not every album had the greatest guitar ...
Clapton himself, in 1993, recalled being bullish about the task: “The timing was perfect because they needed a song about loss and I had plenty of them. Tears In Heaven was actually in a very ...
By the time Cream came together in 1966, they weren’t forming just another British rock group; they were creating a blueprint ...
Fifty-six years ago today, George Harrison began recording what would become his best-known song for the final Beatles album.
Pattie Boyd is one of the very few people in the world who can say she's been married to not one but two rock icons. The model and photographer, who was famously married to George Harrison, only to ...
Producer Tom Dowd said Cream never played “Crossroads” for less than seven minutes in concert and was certain the 'Wheels of Fire' recording was an edit ...
The next four songs really (and I mean really) test your patience if you are waiting for Clapton to let it rip. That won’t happen until later. River of Tears, Pilgrim, Broken Hearted and One ...
In 1970, Eric Clapton wrote his secret love, Pattie Boyd, one of the most famous classic rock love songs, “Layla.” Before he showed his tune to the object of his affection, Clapton sent Boyd ...
Delaney Bramlett helped Clapton and Harrison find their footing as they approached their solo careers at the end of the 1960s ...
Through it all, Clapton poured out his heart. The album's best songs – "Bell Bottom Blues," "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out," "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad," "Have You Ever Loved a ...
Clapton used Derek and the Dominos’ lone studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, as a more than 77-minute declaration of love to Pattie Boyd Harrison.The name “Layla” came from ...