Eric Clapton later married her.

Few rock songs are as emotionally charged — or as personally complicated — as "Layla," the Derek and the Dominos epic born out of an impossible love triangle involving Eric Clapton, George Harrison, ...

While Derek and the Dominos' Layla is heralded for its electric guitar riff, its cinematic piano outro is considered by many fans to be a classic contribution to the iconic rock song in its own right.

Eric Clapton is on the short list of greatest guitarists of all time, laying down some of the nastiest guitar riffs and solos of all time. Perhaps his greatest work came in at No. 11 on Guitar World's ...

"We were a make-believe band," Clapton later said in an interview with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. "We were all hiding inside it," Clapton continued. "Derek and the Dominos — the whole thing.

“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 ...