“It was good!” might be a small understatement. Legendary Clapton/Duane Allman collab.

@Wordsmyth8

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@hak4890

Жыл бұрын

It is a true Masterpiece.

@debbiemr6340

Жыл бұрын

Agree!

@greenworm7915

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Legendary!!

@amae1970

Жыл бұрын

Total Masterpiece

The high slide guitar throughout this song that Amber is commenting on is provided by the best slide guitarist ever, Duane Allman.

@garyriedl1713

Жыл бұрын

Allman is great. I think Junior Brown May be better. Listen to ‘Freeborn Man’.

@MegaHello202

Жыл бұрын

David Gilmour is also incredible on the slide guitar. His solo at the end of Pink Floyd’s “High Hopes” song is incredible

@michaellockhart554

Жыл бұрын

Only time I've heard the coda played as well as the original is a version done by Eric Clapton with Derek Trucks playing slide

@hak4890

Жыл бұрын

Greg, on KZread, there is a clip of DA in an “isolated” (no other instruments) segment of his solo in Layla, before the second half begins. It is fascinating, you may have seen it.

@docbearmb

Жыл бұрын

Guess you never heard of Ry Cooder. Listen to his work on Sister Morphine by the Stones.

The piano transition with Ray Liotta’s narration always sticks with me when I hear this song. RIP Ray Liotta.

@pj1995____

Жыл бұрын

Literally just about to type this song always makes me think of goodfellas and I read your comment haha, amazing scene ✌️

@moviegeek8586

Жыл бұрын

My favorite part of Goodfellas

@DNGINFORMANT

Жыл бұрын

The greatest song exit goes to the greatest Mob movie ever

@coolworx

Жыл бұрын

Ya... this song really completed that scene in GF's

@timothydoherty5337

Жыл бұрын

"When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy"

Consistently considered as one of the greatest songs of all time. Oh, The FEELS!!! The reason why I called my daughter Layla.

@user-bz5ih5qo7u

Жыл бұрын

I have a Layla too! She is 30.

@justtere

9 ай бұрын

Did either of you know the history of the name? That her story was the basis of Romeo and Juliette? The Professor of Rock has an interesting tale of what this song is really about. Thereʼs more to this than the story of Eric Clapton and Patty Boyd and George Harrison. Very interesting story behind Derek and the Dominoes.

@lisaharrod8386

7 ай бұрын

@just...you're correct! Clapton read the work of Persian poet, Nizami Ganjavi, who wrote a tale titled, "The Story of Layla and Majnun". A classic story of unrequited love that paralleled his own love for Pattie Boyd. The rest is history...musically speaking. Well spotted!

Two of the greatest songs from this album, Layla & Bell Bottom Blues, were written for Patty Boyd. Clapton is great, BUT.... Duane Allman steals the show. That slide tear drop is perfection.

@robertheerbrandt7812

Жыл бұрын

"Have You Ever Loved a Woman" was re-worked by Eric & JJ Cale to make it more about Patti - basically the whole album is about her and his love for her.

Eric Clapton IS Derek, along with Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Bobby Whitlock (3 of his band mates from Delaney, Bonnie & Friends).... however the individual that makes this entire album is the beyond magnificent "guest" Duane Allman - who is playing the higher-pitched slide and echos/refrains Clapton's vocals.... this song - actually, the whole album - was written as a tribute & plea of love to Patti Boyd Harrison, wife of Clapton's best friend, Beatle George Harrison.

@hak4890

Жыл бұрын

Robert, if you haven’t already done so, read Eric and Pattie’s memoirs.

@docbearmb

Жыл бұрын

They were great even without Duane. Listen to the first 3 songs on the album. He wasn’t even there when they recorded them. Clapton plays 4 different guitar lines on Keep on Growing, each of which he laid down without any of the other lines playing; just the drums and bass. Sheer genius.

@robertheerbrandt7812

Жыл бұрын

@@hak4890 thanx - I have already! have also had the great fortune of having seen Clapton 9 times and The Allman Bros.17 times (sadly, never had the chance to see Duane). Clapton may be "God", but Daune was the finishing component of what I consider the greatest album - "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs".... with The Allman Brothers "Live at the Filmore East" a VERY close second - the common element being Duane Allman.

@robertheerbrandt7812

Жыл бұрын

@@docbearmb true,. but Duane was the finishing touch - reworking Layla's opening (all his idea) & the echoing/refrains throughout the remainder.. actually, the best overall work is "Key to the Highway", just a warm-up tune that was caught by chance on a late-started tape (hence, the fade-in) by engineer Tom Dowd.... Clapton admitted Duane's presence drove him to his zenith - esp. on "Why Does Love...." -and made the album a complete masterpiece.

@p.j.d.8199

Жыл бұрын

The music was co written by Rita Coolige, she never got credit but he hasn't denied it in public after all these decades and he would have it it weren't true kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmlk0M16Y8y4qaw.html

Duane Allman on slide guitar was genius! He didn't pick up a guitar until well in his teens and tragically died in a motorcycle accident at 23 leaving behind a rich musical legacy.

@paulfrombrooklyn5409

11 ай бұрын

Duane started playing guitar at age 14.

@rjjcms1

9 ай бұрын

They ought to Jessica by the Allman Brothers. Talented group hit by double tragedy,sadly,when in their prime.

@bretdalton3268

8 ай бұрын

He didn’t start playing slide guitar until he was injured in a horse accident and Greg took him a bottle of painkillers as he was listening to a blues album and he dumped the painkillers out of the glass pill bottle and started using it to play slide guitar.

@Krymsyn_Rydyr

5 ай бұрын

@@bretdalton3268was a Taj Mahal album 😊

The entire album that Layla was on was incredible.

@JPMadden

Жыл бұрын

As well as the "Live at the Filmore" double album.

@christianmarler2253

Ай бұрын

I like that song "I Am Yours." -- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)

Eric Clapton's vocals and Duane Allman's epic slide guitar solo is like music of the gods

Nothing better than a little shot of Clapton with a side of Allman for a night cap!! As beautiful as the first time I heard it. ❤ RIP Duane, we still rockin ya!! 😎

Layla has been around for over 50 years, & after hearing it thousands of times, you kind of take its greatness for granted. But listening to you guys hearing it with fresh ears reminds one of the brilliance of this tune. Hearing it with you makes me hear it like I heard it the first time. Thanks guys!

@shakindave

Жыл бұрын

I have proposition for you guys. Email me please. You might like the idea.

@screwyootube1

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more! Well put. I was just thinking I hadn't really paid much attention to the beautiful piano piece it morphs into, in a long, long time. Mesmerizing.

I'm 47 years old, and, in my opinion, this is the greatest rock song of all time! I love this song so much I named my daughter after this. I'm in the car and this comes on, the volume gets cranked. In the house I demand silence. This is just sheer perfection in every way!

The outro to “Layla” might be the best 4 minutes of music ever written.

Clapton wrote this for George Harrisons wife who he was madly in love with. He also wrote Bell Bottom Blues and you look wonderful tonight about her. George Harrison wrote Something for her. Dwayne Allman (Allman Brothers RIP) plays slide guitar on this too.

@beare55

Жыл бұрын

Duane

@leannmiller7153

Жыл бұрын

Between George (Beatles) and Eric, there are 10 songs written about/inspired by Pattie Boyd. Quite the muse❤️

@chitownlee

Жыл бұрын

@@leannmiller7153 yes she was.

@stuartaustin8130

Жыл бұрын

I forgot about bell bottom blues. So basically 4 absolute classics are written about the same woman

@chitownlee

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartaustin8130 Leann says a total of 10 songs were written about her.

This is an absolute masterpiece. The contrast between the song and the outro is mystifying. Duane Allman is on another plane. He is sliding to notes that only he could find. I will always love this piece.

After the break-up of Cream, Clapton tried his hand with several groups, including Blind Faith and the husband-and-wife duo Delaney & Bonnie. In the spring of 1970, he was told that some members of Delaney & Bonnie's back-up band, including bassist Carl Radle, drummer Jim Gordon and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, were leaving the group. Seizing the opportunity, Clapton formed a new group with Whitlock, Radle and Gordon. Naming themselves Derek and the Dominos, the band "made our bones", according to Clapton, while backing Harrison on his first post-Beatles solo album, All Things Must Pass. During the recording of the Layla album, Duane Allman joined Clapton's fledgling band as a guest. Clapton and Allman, already mutual fans, were introduced by Tom Dowd at an Allman Brothers concert on 26 August 1970.The two hit it off well and soon became good friends. Dowd said of their guitar-playing chemistry: "There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that rate and level. One of them would play something, and the other reacted instantaneously. Never once did either of them have to say, 'Could you play that again, please?' It was like two hands in a glove. And they got tremendously off on playing with each other."[16] Dowd was already famous for a variety of work and had worked with Clapton in his Cream days (Clapton once called him "the ideal recording man"); his work on the album would be another achievement. For the making of his biographical film Tom Dowd & the Language of Music, he remixed the original master tapes of "Layla", saying, "There are my principles, in one form or another." Clapton originally wrote "Layla" as a ballad, with lyrics describing his unrequited love for Boyd, but the song became a "rocker" when, according to Clapton, Allman composed the song's signature riff. With the band assembled and Dowd producing, "Layla" was recorded in its rock form. The recording of the first section consisted of sixteen tracks of which six were guitar tracks: a rhythm part by Clapton, three tracks of harmonies played by Clapton (the main power chord riff on both channels and two harmonies against that main riff, one on the left channel and one on the right channel), a track of solos by Allman (fretted solos with bent notes during the verses and a slide solo during the outro and one track with both Allman and Clapton playing duplicate solos (the 7-note "signature" riff doubled in two octaves and the 12-note "signature" riff doubled in unison). According to Clapton, Allman played the first seven notes of the 12-note "signature" riff fretted and the last five notes on slide in standard tuning. Each player used one input of the same two-input Fender Champ amplifier. Shortly afterwards, Clapton returned to the studio, where he heard Jim Gordon playing a piano piece he had composed separately. Impressed by the piece, Clapton convinced Gordon to allow it to be used as part of the song. Though only Gordon has been credited with this part, according to Whitlock, "Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend Rita Coolidge. I know because in the D&B days I lived in John Garfield's old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called 'Time' ... Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with Booker T. Jones ... Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her boyfriend ripped her off. Time" ended up on the 1973 album Chronicles by Booker T. and Priscilla Jones. Whitlock's story was echoed by Coolidge herself in her 2016 autobiography. The claim is also substantiated in Graham Nash's 2014 autobiography Wild Tales. "Layla"'s second movement (the "Piano Exit") was recorded roughly a week after the first, with Gordon playing his piano part, Clapton playing acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and Allman playing electric and bottleneck slide guitar. After Dowd spliced the two movements together "Layla" was complete.

@SirKnight-yw9iw

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this history behind Layla one of R&R most passionate compositions, and now as the saying goes we know the 'rest' of its story.. Well done!

@mkenific

Жыл бұрын

Great post.

@davidjackson4608

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it.Well told

@larryrubin5150

Жыл бұрын

Technical

@bobash5062

Жыл бұрын

Love the background story. Love background for lots of songs and musicians

One of my top 5 all-time favs. In the 70s, radio would cut off the piano ending and you’d only hear it on FM stations and even then late at night. Brilliant start to finish. Thanks folks!

This song touches on so many different emotions with people. I’m 61 years old, and it is absolutely my all-time, forever, favorite song. It still gives me goose-bumps, and sometimes brings a little tear-drop in my eye. Layla will always be a Classic, but was really peaking in the Summer of ‘72; which was one of the best times for me. Sadly, I can’t ever keep from thinking about little Conor Clapton when I hear this song, even though that horrible tragedy was years later. And yes, Duanes’s slide guitar, and the little “bird chirp” at the end…. I’m enjoying being a new Subscriber; keep up the great work! 👍👍👏👏⭐️⭐️💛💛

@bluesman3232

Жыл бұрын

I'm 69 so you know how long I've been listening to it and it still sounds just as good today as the first time I heard it.

@hak4890

Жыл бұрын

@@bluesman3232 I feel like when I call it a “song”, it’s an injustice. It’s a “creation”…

@MikeInMD1961

Жыл бұрын

I'm 61 this October, and I thank God I grew up when I did. Songs like 'Layla' bring back so many memories for me, and make me grateful for the music of that era.

@hak4890

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeInMD1961 agree. I am very partial to ‘72; I was only 11, but even then I loved Layla, and so many other songs that year~

@paulaanderson2339

Жыл бұрын

@@bluesman3232 If you were driving in 71 you remember that your car radio was always turned on, so the radio came on with the car. Every time you started the car in 1971, the instrumental ending of Layla was playing, every time.

This girl gets it !!! So wonderful to watch her enjoying this work of art... Love the small smile of appreciation as she grooves on the coda

This is absolutely the BEST version of Layla, takes me back to such good times 👍

Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Blues Power"!!!

@marybaillie8907

Жыл бұрын

Bell Bottom Blues also written for Patti Boyd after she asked Eric to pick her up a pair of bellbottom jeans while in America. 👍✌️🇨🇦

@quinny6920

Жыл бұрын

Bell bottom blues is an all time fav of mine!!

@unusual686

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Bell Bottom Blues is the best!

@stevebengel1346

Жыл бұрын

Bell Bottom Blues also co-written with the underrated keyboard player Bobby Whitlock

Duane Allman’s sweet slide guitar, the beautiful piano outro, the urgency of Eric Clayton’s vocal at the beginning make this timeless. Of my faves how can you not get lost in this brilliant composition ❤️✌️

@DixonsCider

Жыл бұрын

AND that driving hard rocking, desperate rhythm guitar during the first 'fast' half.

@unclebobunclebob

Жыл бұрын

The piano outro was pilfered by Jim Gordon from Rita Coolidge....you could look it up.

@ToneS-qy9hw

3 ай бұрын

💯💯💯💯💯

The piano solo is EVERYTHING to me. Without it this song wouldn't be as great as it is, IMO.

This song is the equivalent to music as the David of Michelangelo is to art.

Pattie Boyd has probably had more hit songs written about her by music legends than any other person on this planet. A biography worth reading.

@elawane

Жыл бұрын

It must be lined with gold..... just sayin'

@taragreenetarotastro

Жыл бұрын

Good idea. She was so adorable George married her when she was only 18. Something -the greatest song ever written according to Frank Sinatra was written for Pattie. And this one

@user-ky6vw5up9m

Жыл бұрын

Patti's sister Jennifer was not left out. Donovan wrote Jennifer Juniper about her.

@mattdandersn

Жыл бұрын

Songs about Pattie Boyd Harrison For You Blue - The Beatles. I Need You - The Beatles. It's All Too Much - The Beatles. Layla - Derek & the Dominos. She's Waiting - Eric Clapton. Something - The Beatles. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton.

@mztweety1374

Жыл бұрын

@@mattdandersn wait what? Great now I gotta spend all day making up jokes about it. Patti Boyd has had more songs written about her than Courtney Love AND heroin😂

Eric Clapton was in love with George Harrison’s wife at the time. This song was written about her. She eventually divorced Harrison and married Clapton. A classic song. Thank you peace ✌️

@ediefolta9494

Жыл бұрын

And Harrison famously said, "Well, at least she didn't leave me for some jerk."

@stuartaustin8130

Жыл бұрын

Didnt he also write "wonderful tonight" about her and also George wrote "something" about her. So basically shes the inspiration for 3 of the greatest songs ever

@MrRandyv

Жыл бұрын

George actually gave his wife to Eric whom was his best friend, because George saw that Eric was heart broken over her.

@Paul197A

Жыл бұрын

Got what he wanted and then divorced her.

@twenty3enigma

Жыл бұрын

@@Paul197A She divorced him -- his alcoholism & drug abuse made him impossible to live with. He only cleaned up and got his shit together after their breakup. And he and George continued to call themselves "husbands-in-law" -- because their friendship stayed strong.

Even after all these years of hearing this song, the second half still gives me goose bumps. I absolutely love the first half but the instrumental part of this one is what really moves me.

Our reaction to this when it came out was that it was mind blowing. I hate to say this, but not much out there can compare to Layla. This is almost as good as it gets for music from this era. In London the graffiti on the walls said “Clapton is God”. Layla is a masterpiece of rock music.

I can't believe it's been 52 years since this first came out in 1970. I was a sophomore in high school then and remember how huge this song was back then. Clapton who was originally with the British rock group "Cream" would go on to perform with other bands besides his great solo career. Mr. Slow Hand is one of the world's greatest guitarists. What more is there to say about the great Eric Clapton. Awesome!

@wadsworthaaron

Жыл бұрын

Before CREAM, Clapton was with the Yardbirds and John Mayhall's Blues Breakers. He was already a legend by the time he did the CREAM project.

@billclarke117

Жыл бұрын

@@wadsworthaaron And don't forget Blind Faith.

This song comes out in a lot of movies, “Goodfellas” being one of them. Please add it to the movie list. One of the greatest movies ever by one of the best directors (Martin Scorsese).

@DianaJG8

Жыл бұрын

Have you noticed how many "Goodfellow" and "Godfather" actors have died all at once lately? 😳

@scottfrench4139

Жыл бұрын

Scorsese's greatest masterpiece.

@deborahpaley21

Жыл бұрын

@@scottfrench4139 Truth.

@sueparras6028

Жыл бұрын

Goodfellas is AWESOME! But it is extremely violent and definitely not a family flick.

@DianaJG8

Жыл бұрын

@@sueparras6028 - True! That one's definitely just for mom & dad!

I still listen to that album over 50 years later . The songs on it have some of the best guitar work ever ! Listen to have you ever loved a woman and keep on growing for example .

This song is simply, a masterpiece. Patty Boyd must have been a hell of a woman. She inspired no less than four songs, "Layla", from Eric Clapton, and "Something" by George Harrison, among them.

@jonathanhurley4055

9 ай бұрын

She is still alive and kicking ...

This song came out in 1970 ~ I was 14 then. 52 years have passed and this song is still pure magic. Those of us "of a certain age" were blessed to grow up during this evolution of musical styles ~

@lindazee

Жыл бұрын

@jessicalee, first time I heard this was the summer of 1972, when it was released as a single. So, Layla for me will forever be associated with that amazing summer when I was 16 going on 17. I think that makes us the same age? Class of '73 here!

@DixonsCider

Жыл бұрын

I PITY the young people who have such luminaries as... nicki minaj or... Bieber for their 'music'. 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤮 🤮 🤮

@kona883

Жыл бұрын

You were 14 I was 19had seen Eric in Cream so was a huge fan! This song and the entire album as we used to say blew me away!!!!

@DianaJG8

Жыл бұрын

Agree! I was 14 in '70, also (Class of '74) ❤️

@donnacorey5682

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Class of 74!

The last part of the song is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Peace and Love RSR!

That guitar riff is one of the most well known, recognizable in music!! I was 19. In a college bar. Watching the guys shoot pool. Layla comes on and everyone in the place stops! Then hits air guitar, dances, sings, kisses who they’re with…You guys are 2 for 2 today in my long time requests. Thanks❣️❣️. Another great cut from this album- more blues feeling- Bell Bottom Blues. You’ll love it! Another is Thorn Tree in the Garden. Talks of lost love and was “my story” for years. 3 decades later, I still think of that boy when I hear that song.

@georgestevens1502

11 ай бұрын

Duane Allman did.

This will always be my favorite version of Layla by Eric Clapton. Obviously, both Eric and Duane Allman are guitar geniuses (Eric being one of my favorites), but Duane's slide guitar sounds like the guitar is weeping for unrequited love. It is so haunting. And cannot forget to mention the beautiful keyboards played by Bobby Whitlock. This song is epic! And one of the most beautiful (instrumentation) songs ever recorded. You're right on, Amber. Thank you for reacting to this!

@donnabruhn6907

Жыл бұрын

I do really love the acoustic version from the 90's as well. Both are fabulous

@robertheerbrandt7812

Жыл бұрын

that's Jim Gordon on keyboards, not Bobby Whitlock

@FirstGaCav

Жыл бұрын

@@robertheerbrandt7812 you've got it backwards.

@robertheerbrandt7812

Жыл бұрын

@@FirstGaCav - and what part is that? the piano piece was composed & played by Gordon, who had written it as a solo piece for his failed relationship.

@dickwilliam3793

Жыл бұрын

@@robertheerbrandt7812 and stolen from Rita Coolidge

This song is part of my holy trinity of GOAT rock songs along with Stairway To Heaven and Freebird. It doesn’t get any better than those. Added bonus, Duane Allman from The Allman Brothers played the “slide” guitar 🎸 on Layla.

“Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally recorded by Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970). Its contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. The piano part has also been controversially credited to Rita Coolidge, Gordon's girlfriend at the time. The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Arabia and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful young girl, went crazy and so could not marry her. The song was further inspired by Clapton's secret love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison. After Harrison and Boyd divorced, Clapton and Boyd eventually married. "Layla" has since its release experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second (without the piano coda) 20 years later as an acoustic Unplugged performance by Clapton. In 2004, "Layla" was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. In 1966, Beatles guitarist George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met two years before during the filming of A Hard Day's Night. During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited (although openly acknowledged) guitar work on Harrison's song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as the White Album), and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar on Cream's "Badge" from Goodbye. However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd. The title of "Layla" was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun, which Clapton had been told by his friend Ian Dallas, who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami's tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to a man she did not love, resulting in Majnun's madness, struck a deep chord with Clapton. Boyd divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979 during a concert stop in Tucson, Arizona. Harrison was not bitter about the divorce and attended Clapton's wedding party with his former bandmates Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. During their relationship, Clapton wrote another love ballad for Boyd, "Wonderful Tonight" (1977). Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1989.

This song was HUGE on the radio when it came out. There is also a slow version that is very good! RIP Duane Allman.

@Pugiron

8 ай бұрын

Liar, the slow version sucks ass. It turns a song about passion into elevator musak

FINALLY!! So many times I’ve requested this, because Jordan just had to hear that piano exit, and cuz y’all like Eric Clapton. Having Duane Allman on guitar is just the cherry on top 🍒 Thanks for the reaction RS ❤️

Great choice ! Can't do this without getting to "Bell Bottom Blue's",and "I Looked Away" from the same album... Thank you and have a great evening

This song is one of those quintessential rock songs that you can NEVER get tired of listening to!! It has successfully withstood the test of time and only gets better with age!!

This album is one my dad got me for Christmas the year it was released & I took it over to my cousins' house & we played it. I remember riding one of their bikes down the road from their house & I could hear the song, Layla, blasting on their stereo speakers that were set up on their front porch & the song was echoing off the mountains around their house. I remember that I just had to stop & listen to the beautiful piano solo there at the end of the song just echoing everywhere. It was magic. This is my favorite Derek & the Dominos song.

@melanie98d

Жыл бұрын

Love your story. Music is magic 🎶✨

Like Stairway to Heaven, this is one of the most iconic songs of the rock era.

Many of us who grew up as 60's lovers would consider this THE ANTHEM of the decade!

@mikedonoghues4018

Жыл бұрын

Released in 1970.

@wandson5410

Жыл бұрын

Cool but it's not a 60's song.

@finallythere100

Жыл бұрын

@@mikedonoghues4018 Close enough...

Clapton set the scale for excellent guitar riffs with this song! Not many rock guitarist can even touch what Clapton did with this song... epic!

Greatest intro riff ever! Wow. Eric as always, amazing. From the heart, this one is a gem. Glad you heard this version, although the acoustic version of Layla is amazing, done years later, too!

For my generation, this is better than good. It is a masterpiece that will be heard for as long as people exist.

@joycevance3078

Жыл бұрын

This was written about Patty Boyed , which at the time was George Harrison's wife he was in love with her. George wrote a song or two about her.

@toddstevens13

Жыл бұрын

They can't help themselves, when 95% of music is garbage in comparison, what do you expect youngen's to know.

Masterpiece! Eric Clapton wrote this about George Harrison's wife who would later leave George and marry Eric

@HenryInHawaii

Жыл бұрын

And then they divorced

@cebridges

Жыл бұрын

The same woman George wrote "Something" about. That's always blown my mind because they're two of my favorite songs.

@robertspurgeon281

Жыл бұрын

This may be the superior version but you have to check out the "Unplugged" version as well.

@vandergod

Жыл бұрын

And George and Eric remained friends. That is the amazing part to me.

@amitabhhajela681

Жыл бұрын

@@cebridges Bell Bottom Blues and Wonderful Tonight are also about her

Amber you have an artistic take always! Over the technical side, which doesn’t always have to be perfect, the emotional response to the music is almost always spot on. The song is about forbidden love, though never stated. But you get it by the angst and tension created by the music. You must write or paint or something, because you’re very in tune with your comments and your visceral response to these old tunes.

@RobSquadReactions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. I actually have loved to write since I was a child

For me what really makes this song is that gorgeous piano coda at the end. The acoustic version Eric Clapton recorded for Unplugged in the 1990s is also great. People were genuinely blown away by it.

Eric and a guitar... Still one of the all time bests! Thanks for bringing back old memories! You should listen to Clapton's Unplugged version of this; slower, smoother, and in the way he originally intended it to be heard.

@sheilameyers152

Жыл бұрын

I liked that transition music…..it made me tradition waiting for something….. it was very expectorant!

@beckyfearereck

Жыл бұрын

Anything from the Unplugged concert is fantastic! It’s Eric at his best…

@equipage72

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree about the Unplugged series...

"Layla" was used in the movie "Goodfellas" during the scene portraying the aftermath of the 1978 Lufthansa heist. Director Martin Scorsese planned out the sequence with the song specifically in mind, playing it on set to synchronise with the staging and camera movement. The song is also synchronised with the film's ending credits, playing after a cover of "My Way" by Sid Vicious.

The outro is absolutely everything!

Listen to this song a few dozen times and the go find the movie Goodfellas and hear how Martin Scorcese takes a beautiful love song and turns it into an incredibly sad farewell late in the movie and then plays out the entire coda as the credits roll. It is an incredible use of great rock music in a great movie.

I've always seen that transition as being from his state of desperate longing, then she turns to him, and the melody transforms to one of happiness and fulfillment - that second section is their life together. 🥰

Something about this song just tugs at my heart and I'm not sure why. The second half fills me with a beautiful nostalgic melancholy for something, someone, or some place from my youth that I don't think I remember or may not have existed in the first place. But the feeling is there.

@jillwanlin9558

Жыл бұрын

I was trying to make a comment but couldn’t come up the right words. I couldn’t have said it better. A very moving masterpiece 🎶

@Dee530Luvz2BeLoved5555

Жыл бұрын

I so agree!! 💞🎶 👏

@nightowl5395

Жыл бұрын

Lovely.... 🙂

@stebstebanesier6205

Жыл бұрын

Amen brother, I feel the exact same way, good music is absolutely magical.

@rogerhuggettjr.7675

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It almost feels like when I hear Mainstreet by Bob Segar. Sad, but at peace.

Song was written for Pattie Boyd, whoo was married to Clapton's and a Beatle George Harrison. They eventually married and the 2 guys remained friends for life.

Most people do not understand that the lat great Duane Allman of the Allmam Brothers Band played slide lead guitar on this song and several other songs on this album. Layla was recorded just shortly before Duane's tragic death. R.I.P. Duane Allman. Peace.

Another song that is EPIC in my generation. It will never get old, I’d still listen to it every day!! I kept waiting for one of you to yell OHHHH ITS ERIC CLAPTON!! Much love guys!!💜☮️

Clapton wrote this about Patti Boyd whom he was madly in love with. He had just stolen Patti from George Harrison who also wrote a song about her called "Something".

The opening riff on the low then the screaming high riff (essentially the same) they SHOUT desperation!! Then the singing comes in... Every time I need a bit of a "pick-me-up" this song-opening alway does the trick!!!

This duet of slide guitar by two of finest masters of all time never ceases to raise the hair on My arms. It's hard to believe it`s been 50 years. A timeless performance. Duane left us way too early.

I’ve lived through some tumultuous times and haven’t always felt good about it all, but when I hear songs like this again, I wouldn’t take back one minute of those crazy years! Boy was I blessed to have grown up with such great music!

@jaquettajones

Жыл бұрын

Truly said and my sentiments EXACTLY. Cannot imagine life without all the great music spanning my lifetime. We ARE blessed :-D

@elegantgypsyrose5328

Жыл бұрын

Same. A teen age girl in the 70s, a young woman in the 80s....

Please ! Do yourself a favor and listen to this song unplugged. Completely different , yet awesome. Clapton did a whole album “unplugged” and it’s a banger. This was written for George Harrison’s wife. He fell in love with her.

Layla outro was the last thing played at my wedding as everyone was leaving. One of the best songs of all time.

Memories of my brother and I sitting in my parents car 1970 listening to this on the radio.

I bought the Derek & The Dominos album soon after its release in 1971, and nearly wore it out on my turntable. "Layla" was a favorite of mine then, and still is. BTW, I really enjoyed reading Pattie Boyd's (Layla's) book Wonderful Tonight (called Wonderful Today in the UK) about 12 years ago. It tells the story of her marriage to Beatle George Harrison and later to Eric Clapton, along with many anecdotes about the English rock scene in those days.

@rosshageman951

Жыл бұрын

I, too, wore out the grooves on this album as a freshman in college, The album is loaded with great tracks. Led Zeppelin 4 also had the grooves worn out.

@jokepy4230

Жыл бұрын

I only ever bought two vinyl albums twice. This was one of them.

@biglove1941

Жыл бұрын

It was also on the K-tel 22 greatest hits album from 73 i think..My favorite song on it..plz dont laugh

You know what makes me super happy? You guys are leveling up your ears! You're listening ACTIVELY to the music, and that will without a doubt unlock the magic in the music! This was awesome!

Derek Trucks played the slide guitar part from this song when he was 13! It’s amazing.

I have forgotten how cool this song is especially with that instrumental part at the end. I heard it so much in grade school I think I kind of got burnt out on it at some point but this was highly enjoyable to listen to it so closely again. I love the work that he's doing on the drums even in this slower instrumental part, his symbol work is just fantastic. And the bass is killer. Love all of it.

Clapton performed an Unplugged concert for MTV. His reinterpretation of "Layla" is incredible. Not since Bob Dylan has an artist sang his own song twice so differently. It's really worth a listen.

@Wonky-Donkey

Жыл бұрын

The entire Unplugged album is amazing.

@matthewwisner2153

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. It's amazing and doesn't even feel like the same song.

@tedszweb5268

Жыл бұрын

I agree with Matthew unfortunately, it is completely different than the original which is the Greatest Song of all time.

@hoke1212

Жыл бұрын

@@tedszweb5268 YEP...................

@RobertSmith-iw2kb

11 ай бұрын

Now you are getting to the classics😊

The guitar riff is a classic and it is just rammed down your throat to ecstasy. I remember when I first heard this song and I almost drove off the freeway in sheer delight. LOL

There is a story I heard back in the day, at one venue they were about to come on stage and a local radio dj announced them as "Eric Clapton". When they took the stage Eric walked up to the mic and told the audience "Eric couldn't make it but he sent his band 'Derek and the Dominos" and proceeded to start playing.

The guitars playing behind the piano near the end makes me think of fireflies on a warm summer night,

The instrumental always brings a tear to my eye.

The piano at the end is played by…surprise!…the drummer, Jim Gordon. He is credited with writing that coda but his gf at the time Rita Coolidge, who is also one of the backup singers on the track, claims she at least co-wrote it (never got credited). Gordon was a great drummer who was also classically trained on piano. He murdered his own mother and got life in prison (he died recently).

@aarongoldstein7614

Жыл бұрын

Jim Gordon is still alive & serving his sentence.

@donnakubiski5572

Жыл бұрын

@@aarongoldstein7614 Yeah, you're right. I was just going to say the same thing.

@55itsme

Жыл бұрын

From what I understand of Jim Gordon's story, it seems like a sad case of mental illness. I was also surprised to find out recently just how many other huge hits he either wrote or played drums on!

@genov9374

Жыл бұрын

not questioning you, just wondering, wasn't the keyboard Bobby Whitlock?

@VIDSTORAGE

Жыл бұрын

@@genov9374 Piano intro is Jim The 2nd piano is Bobby

The lyrics are based on the book by Persian poet Nizami, Layla and Majnun, about a man in love with a woman who cannot have her because her parents object. When they cannot be together, he goes insane. Clapton's situation with Pattie was different, but he liked the title and the theme of unattainable love.

@michaellockhart554

Жыл бұрын

And Derek Trucks, IMHO the successor to Duane Allman, along with Susan Tedeschi and their band are doing a 4 album set based on that story called I Am The Moon, awsome music

@neshobanakni

Жыл бұрын

I never knew that!

@kbusby4824

Жыл бұрын

Great info.

@billclarke117

Жыл бұрын

@@michaellockhart554 Yes. 3 of the 4 are out and the 4th comes out next week!

@billclarke117

Жыл бұрын

They came up with the idea of looking at this from Layla's point of view.

This is my favorite song, I live in a nursing home now and can’t turn it up, y’all gotta take the headphones off, turn up the bass and listen to this LOUD, I listened to this just about every night and the wood floors in my house danced for me!

The most legendary guitar. Surely? I feel like every human has this in their bones

The title of "Layla" was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun, which Clapton had been told by his friend. It's a Romeo and Juliet of the East (Middle Asia)

Excellent choice. Best jam ever. With Duane Allman of the Allmam Brothers

Just merely saying:"It Was Good"? Such an injustice! This is considered one of the greatest songs of all time!

The instrumental was used in the movie : Good Fellas . That's why this song is also known as the Good Fellas song.

Oh that slide guitar.. Hats off to the late Duane Allman

Legendary song. Layla, Derek and the Dominos. Timeless music. Another little known fact, Duane Allman of the Allman Bros band, actually was sitting in durning the recording of Layla and created and performed the melodical instrumental ending on the song. I named my daughter Layla after this song.

@lillyboldlyshewhispers7145

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Rob Squad for loving this song. Wonderful to see the younger generation appreciate such great music. Especially from the 70s.

Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer. She was one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton, epitomised the British female look of the era. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966 and experienced the height of the Beatles' popularity as well as sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something", "For You Blue", a cover of "Bye Bye Love" for his 1974 album Dark Horse, and Clapton's songs "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States). Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been widely exhibited. In 1966, Beatles guitarist George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met two years before during the filming of A Hard Day's Night. During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited (although openly acknowledged) guitar work on Harrison's song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as the White Album), and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar on Cream's "Badge" from Goodbye. However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd. The title of "Layla" was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun, which Clapton had been told by his friend Ian Dallas, who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami's tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to a man she did not love, resulting in Majnun's madness, struck a deep chord with Clapton. Boyd divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979 during a concert stop in Tucson, Arizona. Harrison was not bitter about the divorce and attended Clapton's wedding party with his former bandmates Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. During their relationship, Clapton wrote another love ballad for Boyd, "Wonderful Tonight" (1977). Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1989.

really liked the little bird whistle at the very end

Clapton's association with various bands went on for quite a while. From the Yardbirds to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers to Cream to Blind Faith and finally to Derek and the Dominos before he finally broke out as a solo artist in 1970.

@farmerrikki825

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget delanie and Bonnie 😀

This song was written as as a love song for Patti Boyd for whom Clapton had an obsession. Pattie Boyd was the real-life “Layla,” who married George Harrison and became the romantic obsession of his close friend, Eric Clapton. During the golden era of rock and roll, there was a muse who captivated two of the most eminent music icons in history.

One of the most iconic scenes in any movie, Goodfellas, with this songs instrumental part.

Now you need to hear the unplugged version.

A lot of memories!! One of Eric Clapton's early days bands. Love it 💥💥✴✴

Clapton's producer on Layla was Tom Dowd. They were in the middle of recording this album when Dowd took Clapton to see this new guy , Duane Allman play. Clapton was so amazed he got Dowd to let them meet. Duane was shocked and in amazement that.." hey That's Eric Clapton" that he was awestruck. They immediately hit it off and Clapton invited him to sit in on the recording. The rest is history. Layla and other assorted love songs is the greatest guitar album in rock history. If you can find the song Key to the Highway and listen to them swap back and forth on guitar, you will be amazed. And, if you notice how the song just starts to get louder in the beginning, it is because Dowd walked in one morning and heard Allman and Clapton just ripping ot up. He ran down the hall yelling " HIT RECORD!! HIT RECORD!! And instructed the guy in the booth to be running tape whenever they were in there playing. What a great album from start to finish!!!

Derek & the Dominoes is my favorite musical outing of Eric Clapton. Putting certain feelings about the man aside, I will loudly acknowledge his musical excellence. As a solo artist, with The Yardbirds, and with Cream--I wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article for Cream--he was phenomenal. I think that his work with Derek & the Dominoes was stellar. It is hard for me to say that for an artist of his caliber and with the equally amazing music legends he worked with, one collaboration rises to the top over the others, but Derek & the Dominoes is that "it" band for me. You guys have reacted to so many things that I am sure that I will stumble upon my favorite Derek & the Dominoes song and Eric Clapton song eventually. That is "Bell Bottom Blues."

I love that you finally listened to this. That ending is called the piano exit and as much as I love the beginning, I listen to the song for that exit. I’ve even cut that exit and put it on loop before. Its fantastic.

Thank you so much. Amber as a kid I was sure the slide guitar parts were a violin. Then I found out what a slide guitar sounded like. The slide guitar was played by the late great Duane Allman. I don’t know if you’d want to react to a 12 minute song but “Loan Me a Dime” preformed by Boz Skaggs and Duane Allman is worth listening to on your own time. Though I’ve read that Duane Allman is the inventor of “Southern Rock” it’s a wonderful example of “Blues” and slide guitar.

Patti Boyd Harrison, George Harrison's wife, was the inspiration for two of the greatest songs of the rock era: Harrison's "Something," and Clapton's "Layla."

"Layla", the single was released in 1971 without the instrumental part at the end and rereleaseed in 1972 with it.

You should do a deep dive into the history of this song. Meaning too complex to just make a comment. My musician friends tell me this is the most acoustically perfect song ever written.