Layla

It was directed at Patti Harrison, wife of George. Clapton was trying to lure her away from her husband, with whom he was good mates. Layla was inspired by a book Clapton had been reading, The Story Of Layla And Majnun , the 12th-century tale of an Arabian princess whose father marries her off, leaving her true love in despair that turns to madness.

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But Layla is credited to Clapton and Dominos drummer Jim Gordon, who came up with the lengthy piano coda. Whitlock remembers that Clapton already had Layla when they started writing together: According to Dowd, the sessions had been sluggish before he took Clapton to an Allman Brothers concert. Afterwards, Clapton invited the band back to the studio, where they jammed for the next 18 hours. Within days, Duane Allman was playing at the album sessions, transforming the atmosphere as he and Clapton brought the best out of each other.

Layla was recorded towards the end of the album sessions, and Whitlock says the album was recorded pretty much in the order you hear it. Nevertheless, the fact that Layla gave the record its title and is the climax to the double album suggests that Clapton regarded it as a special song, even before Allman added his masterstroke.

Some people even maintain that it was Allman who introduced the opening riff into the song, although Whitlock disagrees. Tom Dowd recalled layering six guitar parts on the track. One of them would play something and the other would react instantaneously. It's like someone else. It's easy to do those songs then. Or, as his inspiration, Pattie Boyd, once said, "I think that he was amazingly raw at the time He's such an incredible musician that he's able to put his emotions into music in such a way that the audience can feel it instinctively.

It goes right through you. The album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs opened to lacklustre sales as the album never actually reached the music charts in the United Kingdom, possibly in part because Clapton's name was found only on the back cover. In addition, the song's length proved prohibitive for radio airplay. The version peaked at 51 on the Billboard Hot singles chart.

With good sales figures, the Billboard magazine was able to rank the Rock single as the 60th best-selling song in In , "Layla" was re-released as a single in the United Kingdom, and peaked at number four. This time the whole seven-minute single charted, containing the trailing two-thirds which is instrumental only. Critical opinion since has been overwhelmingly positive. Dave Marsh , in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll , wrote that "there are few moments in the repertoire of recorded rock where a singer or writer has reached so deeply into himself that the effect of hearing them is akin to witnessing a murder or a suicide The Greatest Singles Ever Made.

In , the Allman Brothers Band began playing the song in concert. The performances were seen as a tribute not only to Allman, but also to producer Tom Dowd, who had died the previous year. Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center.

On 16 January , he recorded an acoustic album , accompanied by a concert film, at the Bray Studios in Bray, Berkshire. Finally, Clapton agreed to release the album in a limited edition. When Unplugged sold out, Clapton gave Warner Bros. Clapton recorded the acoustic version of "Layla" on a C. Clapton called this guitar one of the finest instruments he has ever used and called its sound "incredible". The auction house Christie's noted, "the guitar became one of the most enduring images of recent music history" being a part of the Unplugged album cover.

When Keane played the guitar, he also remarked an "amazing" sound as the acoustic guitar seems to have a "wonderfully balanced tone [which is] loud and sweet at the same time with an incredible bass note. Rhythm acoustic guitar player Andy Fairweather Low was invited by Clapton to his flat in Chelsea, London to work out the songs to be recorded for the Unplugged album in January During the process, Clapton suggested that it would be a good idea to do another version of "Layla".

Fairweather Low agreed because he had wanted to release one himself as a big Derek and the Dominos fan. Clapton thought that the perfect arrangement for the rock anthem would be a shuffle because he always liked changing the tempo of a song and looking at something from a different angle. I have done it the same all these years and never ever considered trying to revamp it. And a lot of artists do that, you know? Bob Dylan for instance changes everything everytime he plays it and I thought this was another great opportunity to just take it off on a different path, to put it to a shuffle and for a start, making it acoustic denied all the riffs, really.

They would have sounded a bit weak, I think, on the acoustic guitar, so it just seemed to become Jazzier somehow. And of course, I'm singing it a whole octave down. So it gives it a nice kind of atmosphere. The song was written in the key of D minor which Clapton recalled pushed him to the top of his singing range.

When Clapton slowed it down, Fairweather Low suggested Clapton should sing the track a whole octave down. Clapton was pleased with the result as it sounded "nice" and "sort of Jazzy" to him. Because Clapton changed the arrangement of his rock anthem so much, he decided to introduce this version to the unsuspecting live audience by stating: The critics especially liked Leavell's piano work on the song, saying that it "adds a smoky-jazz-joint torch-song ambience that's both expectation shattering and emotionally compelling to the tune".

In , Jamrock Entertainment listed "Layla" as the best song of the year. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the song. For the name, see Leila name. For the tale, see Layla and Majnun.

For other uses, see Layla disambiguation. Acoustic blues blues rock soft rock.

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