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 ...

There are plenty of great guitarists out there, and they have all written number-one songs, but which of them has written the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delaney Bramlett helped Clapton and Harrison find their footing as they approached their solo careers at the end of the 1960s ...

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 ...

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 ...