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 ...

Stephen Colbert mocks Trump's weird Valentine's Day email There's no song on earth that better captures the agony of unrequited love than Eric Clapton's "Layla". And, Ed Sheeran—king of angsty songs ...

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 ...

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Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

For the past six years, Eric Clapton has been disappointing fans by playing a stripped-down rendition of “Layla” on the acoustic guitar at this concerts as opposed to the original, electric one. He ...

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 ...

Former actor and model Pattie Boyd was married to two of the biggest rock stars, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Boyd met George on the set of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. They married ...

Eric Clapton said he’d found new inspiration in the idea of writing the protest songs that caused a backlash and lost him friends. In a new interview with the Real Music Observer (video below), ...

“Key to the Highway” is a blues standard originally written by Charlie Segar and Willie Broonzy. There have been many different versions of this classic, but the Eric Clapton recording for the album ...

Legendary rock muse Pattie Boyd, who inspired Eric Clapton “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” and, reputedly, George Harrison‘s “Something,” is coming out with an autobiography, Wonderful Today, and ...

Eric Clapton is not, and never was, God. Contrary to the London graffiti that deified him as a hotshot young guitar hero, he is, like the rest of us, a flawed mortal who, unlike the rest of us, is ...