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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 Persian literature and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi , [ 1 ] a copy of which Ian Dallas had given ...
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on Billboard magazine's pop , country , adult contemporary , and jazz charts, [ 1 ] and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson . [ 2 ]
The Layla Sessions liner notes (Polydor, 1990) Jan Reid, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos (Rock of Ages, 2007) Whitlock, Bobby (2011). Bobby Whitlock with Marc Roberty, Bobby Whitlock: A Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography . McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-5894-3.
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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 ...
Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and countless others who was diagnosed with schizophrenia after murdering his mother in 1983, has died. According to the announcement ...
Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee.Between 1969 and 1979, she was married to Booker T. Jones, who produced Coolidge's first solo album, 1970's Gypsy Queen. [2] Then the pair collaborated as a duo on three albums: 1971's Booker T. & Priscilla; 1972's Home Grown; and 1973's Chronicles, which included the song "Time", written by her sister Rita, which was allegedly "borrowed" by drummer ...
The group split in spring 1971 before they finished recording their second album. In addition to his drumming, Gordon was credited with contributing the elegiac piano coda for the title track, "Layla". In later years, Whitlock claimed that the coda was not actually written by Gordon: "Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend Rita Coolidge.