Some people even maintain that it was Allman who introduced the opening riff into the song, although Whitlock disagrees. ... As the Years Go Passing By from the album Born Under A … FMT Lifestyle begins a series about stories you haven’t heard about a song you fancy.The series starts with Layla, a love song that remains a signpost in rock history – 50 years after it was recorded in 1970.The co-writers of the song are Eric Clapton, who was lovesick over George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd, and drummer Jim Gordon who went on to be a murderer.Clapton celebrated his 75th birthday in March this year while Gordon, who also turned 75 this month, has spent 36 years in prison for the murder of his mother.It has also been 30 years since Martin Scorsese set Layla to one of the all-time favourite gangster movie sequences in Goodfellas.The rousing piano coda of Layla unspools as Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) moves against the others involved in the Lufthansa job.Clapton and Duane Allman’s intertwined guitars weep for the rash criminals whose bodies are discovered in a pink Cadillac, at the back of a garbage truck and hanging from a hook in a meat truck.The story of Layla began in 1970, when Clapton formed the blues rock band, Derek and the Dominos, with Carl Radle (bass), Gordon (drums) and Bobby Whitlock (keyboards), from Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, the band he joined after Blind Faith split, in early 1970.Who is Derek? It has also been 30 years since Martin Scorsese set Layla to one of the all-time favourite gangster movie sequences in Goodfellas. Please refresh the page and try again.Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. In 2012, Classic Rock told the full tale of Layla“I’m incredibly proud of that song. The strange thing was the album did not sell well at first and the song itself wasn’t a hit until a year-and-a-half after the band broke up.By then, nobody even really knew who Derek and the Dominos were.Within a year of its recording, Allman died at age 24, followed by Radle whose kidneys gave up in 1980.After murdering his mother in 1983, Gordon, one of rock’s great session drummers, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and is now in a mental hospital.Boyd finally left Harrison in 1974, only for her and Clapton to separate in 1986.Remarkably, Boyd inspired some of the most famous songs in rock history: The Beatles’ Something, If I Needed Someone and For You Blue; and Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight. But it wasn’t just the riff. Someone gave Clapton a book called The Story of Layla and Majnun, a Persian story about being obsessively in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman.Clapton loved the name and made it his declaration of love for Boyd, the wife of his friend, neighbour and former Beatle Harrison.The seminal album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs has a few songs about Boyd – I Am Yours, Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad and a cover of Have You Ever Loved A Woman?, first recorded by blues artiste Freddie King in 1960. Eric Patrick Clapton’s nickname was Del. “It has nothing to do with the rest of the song. Del and Eric were combined to become Derek.At their first gig, they were going to call themselves Derek and The Dynamos, but Tony Ashton of the British rock trio, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who opened for them, wrongly introduced them as Derek and the Dominos and the name stuck.Why Layla? “There were no grams around – let’s put it like that.”Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox!Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. It just sounds like a mess. ©
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