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"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally recorded with their band 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 majority of the songs on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs were products of Clapton and Whitlock's collaboration, which produced six of the nine originals on the recording, with five covers making up the balance. Clapton used a diminutive 5-watt tweed Fender Champ during the sessions, [11] which has grown to legend since.
The song is entirely in German and tells of the singer recently having been approached on the street by the owner of a brothel whose madam is called Layla, a woman who is described as being "schöner, jünger, geiler" [1] ("prettier, younger, sexier"; [2] the word "geil", of which "geiler" is the comparative, is somewhat hard to translate into English, see the article on a 1986 song under that ...
Both tracks were included on the 2011 reissue of Layla. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Debut album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs recorded during September 1970, released on 9 November. Billboard 200 # 16 [94] In 1990 a new mix was released as The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition with unreleased tracks and jams. Billboard 200 ...
The tale and the name "Layla" served as Eric Clapton's inspiration for the title of Derek and the Dominos' album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and its title track in 1971. The song "I Am Yours" is a direct quote from a passage in Layla and Majnun. Tedeschi Trucks Band released "I Am The Moon" in 2022, a four-part album inspired by Layla ...
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock, [2] and performed by Derek and the Dominos. It dealt with Clapton's unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison, and appeared on the 1970 double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
The triple-Grammy winner dropped the dance-tastic “Houdini,” in November 2023. Given the Grammy submission period of Sept. 16, 2023 to Aug. 30, 2024, it feels like a lifetime ago that she ...
"Lyla" is a song by the English rock band Oasis. It was released in May 2005 as the first single from their sixth studio album, Don't Believe the Truth (2005). "Lyla" was the band's first single following the departure of their long-time drummer Alan White, and replaced by Ringo Starr's son and the Who drummer Zak Starkey as an additional drummer of the band.