In the world of rock music, 1970 was a year of disasters. From the Beatles’ breakup to the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, it felt that year as if the very pillars of rock music were being ...

"Layla" wasn't the only Derek and the Dominos song to be directly inspired by Boyd. As Clapton explained in his autobiography ...

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 ...

The former model attended one of Clapton’s intimate UK warm-up shows and heard the songs he wrote about her ...

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 ...

The two married in 1979 and divorced in 1989 ...

Eric Clapton recorded his only U.S. No. 1, a cover of reggae star Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff", 52 years ago today.

Eric Clapton was hit in the chest by what appeared to be a vinyl record cover at his Madrid show and did not return for the ...

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, ...