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.

By the time Cream came together in 1966, they weren’t forming just another British rock group; they were creating a blueprint ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Rita Coolidge, she didn’t realize that something was amiss with “Layla” until she heard it later on the radio.

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 ...

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 ...

Most Pilot-y Line: “Most of the songs in the set,” Clapton says in the interview that accompanies Unplugged…Over 30 Years Later, “they’re covers of songs I heard when I was very young, ...

Clapton showed Boyd his love by playing her his song, “Layla.” Later, when they got together, Clapton wrote “ Wonderful Tonight ” about how lovely Boyd looked before going out one night.

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 ...

What do Eric Clapton and Prince have to do with one of George Harrison's most iconic songs off The White Album? Brace yourself: the answer may leave you "weeping." Biden commutes roughly 1,500 ...