Why eric clapton wrote layla

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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. It just sounds like a mess. It certainly sounds similar to the Coolidge-penned Time , released by Booker T. The piano coda was not on the version of Layla released as a single in the US in , which reached No.

When the full, seven-minute version came out the following year it made No. By which time Derek And The Dominos had been broken up by drug-fuelled paranoia, and Clapton was sinking into full-blown heroin addiction. In fact the recording of the album had been characterised by conspicuous drug consumption. While Layla has since become the ritual climax to a Clapton concert, it was played live by Derek And The Dominos only a couple of times, when Allman guested with the band.

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