Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0295 Derek & The Dominos (1970): Layla Writer: | Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon Producer: | Tom Dowd Label: | Polydor Album: | Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) There is a certain irony that Eric Clapton’s most famous song was recorded by a group in which he hid his name and leadership to avoid some of the pressures he had endured in his previous supergroups, Cream and Blind Faith. Sharing the guitar lead with Duane Allman (of The Allman Brothers Band) and writing duties with the rest of the group when they weren’t playing covers, Clapton produced just one album with Derek & The Dominos before retreating back into the shadows of addiction and pain. The song was inspired by Layla and Majnun, a twelfth-century poem by Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi, which tells the tale of a man driven to distraction by the woman he cannot have. The real-life Layla was Pattie Boyd, wife of Clapton’s best friend, George Harrison, and the woman with whom Clapton had fallen madly in love. Over the course of a double album, he spells out his dilemma of unrequited love, its apex coming with this monumental track, a seven-minute-plus howl of agony and grief, a personal statement almost too raw to comprehend. He wonders whether he will go insane, asking the same question as blues legend Robert Johnson in his darkest hour: is his “love in vain”? Clapton’s original rough version of the song was revved up with an opening lick by Duane Allman taken from an Albert King song, turning its original ballad form into a rocker played out in six overdubbed guitar lines. The four-minute piano finale was a separate song by drummer Jim Gordon and added three weeks later. As for “Layla” herself, Pattie Boyd eventually left Harrison and married Clapton in 1979, although the marriage ended in divorce in 1988. youtu.be/9p3sVCS0mz4
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