Few rock songs are as emotionally charged — or as personally complicated — as "Layla," the Derek and the Dominos epic born out of an impossible love triangle involving Eric Clapton, George Harrison, ...

"We were a make-believe band," Clapton later said in an interview with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. "We were all hiding inside it," Clapton continued. "Derek and the Dominos — the whole thing.

Eric Clapton is on the short list of greatest guitarists of all time, laying down some of the nastiest guitar riffs and solos of all time. Perhaps his greatest work came in at No. 11 on Guitar World's ...