Artists can influence other artists without even realizing they’re doing so, and few songs embody this invisible phenomenon quite like “Layla”, which Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon first wrote and ...

While Derek and the Dominos’ Layla is heralded for its electric guitar riff, its cinematic piano outro is considered by many fans to be a classic contribution to the iconic rock song in its own right.

“See if you can spot this one,” Eric Clapton told the small audience in a Windsor television studio in January 1992, just before he began playing a dramatically different arrangement of one of his ...