Rita Coolidge says Eric Clapton owes her a writing credit for one of the most celebrated songs in rock ...

The song peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100.

The Grammy-winning singer helped pen the piano coda that closes "Layla," but was never credited despite her pleas to the ...

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, the wife ...

"Layla" wasn't the only Derek and the Dominos song to be directly inspired by Boyd. As Clapton explained in his autobiography, he wrote "Bell Bottom Blues" for his pal's then-spouse after she asked ...

It's one of the most famous, and possibly infamous, rock songs of all time, a yearning scorcher Eric Clapton wrote about his mad love for Pattie Boyd, who was then the wife of his close friend George ...

What if someone released an impassioned twin-guitar genius record and nobody cared? That’s basically what happened – at least initially – with the only album from Derek and the Dominos. Issued on Nov.

Jim Gordon, a prolific and in-demand session drummer for dozens of acts who joined Eric Clapton in writing “Layla” for their band Derek and the Dominos and later was convicted of murdering his mother, ...