Derek and the Dominos - Layla

[@JoeBronco]

I cannot fathom how anyone could dislike this rock CLASSIC. The first half is an incredible rock tune; the second half is a beautiful, romantic piano coda to contrast. There is not a more incredible song than this.

[@cierakitty]

Years of listening to this, never gets old. Real talent in so many directions...wonderful

[@OzKnosis]

+Bobbie LaVanway I love the production on this too, the way it was recorded to sound sort of live , sort of spontaneous, yet it is so polished in other ways.

[@kennethtrupin724]

This was my favorite song in college and it is still my favorite. I am now 62 years old. Long time listening to this

[@joefronti6901]

One of the greatest songs ever.

[@juanrobertonavarro650]

One of the most beautiful songs in rock history!!!

[@MyMslizzie]

OMG--This was the original Layla and the best one ever recorded. The instrumentals in this are phenominal!

[@susanreed2802]

Best love rock song ever made, the raw emotion in Clapton's voice,,Duanne Allman's haunting guitar....

[@susanreed2802]

Not only is Clapton's voice screaming with emotion and pain but the guitar is crying too

[@barbaramcdonald2182]

come on this is about george harrison who he fall madly in love with in the end got her after george gave her up it is a great love song Barbara love to you all

[@HighwayStarRevisited]

How can this have dislikes?! This song is extremely beautiful and flawless. Clapton and Allman are awesome.

[@FakeProjectNo2]

For 13 years I've been trying to find this song, that guitar solo was stuck in my head all this time, but then one day I was listening to pandora and bam! goose bumps.

[@1ireneaustin]

Thank you Lord JEsus for another day to listen to music from my youth. Lord be PRAISED!

[@zoki-kj3ox]

This is the best rock masterpiece ever! For me..👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@YJMusic72]

This is one of the songs that made me a Clapton fan!

[@ariaspressurewasher]

its all duane

[@lucasoneil9193]

+MrFitguru this isn't clapton

[@YJMusic72]

+Lucas O'Neil I'm no walking rock encyclopedia ; ) But as far as I know this a song about Patty Boyd, who Clapton was madly in love with, but who was married to George Harrison, at that time. Always loved that story and this very passionate song. Now, of course this was a D&theD song, but I don't see how this is not Clapton...?

[@FromScytheToSceptre]

+Lucas O'Neil +ariaspressurewasher Clapton wrote the lyrics, sings here, and played several guitar tracks. So yes, Clapton had a hand in this, no, it's not "all Duane" though Duane did write the riff.

[@dsimms561]

Duane played the slide that you hear in the beautiful coda

[@MrPACO317]

"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970). It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs,featuring an unmistakable guitar figure played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, and a piano coda that comprises the second half of the song. Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. The song was inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he could not marry her. In his autobiography, Clapton states, "Ian Dallas told me the tale of Layla and Manjun [sic], a romantic Persian love story in which a young man, Manjun [sic], falls passionately in love with the beautiful Layla, but is forbidden by her father to marry her and goes crazy with desire." (Clapton, Eric. Clapton: The Autobiography. New York: Broadway Books, 2007 at p. 107.) The song was further inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison. "Layla" was unsuccessful on its initial release.The song has since experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second (without the piano coda) 20 years later as an acoustic "Unplugged" performance by Clapton. In 2004, "Layla" was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song................Eddie

[@CadanHartleyElliott]

Vauxhall used to use it a lot at the end of their ads, accompanied by the slogan Once Driven, Forever Smitten.

[@davidpeters44]

The piano coda is one of the most beautiful passages in music.

[@carolasuryammy639]

Derek and the Dominos were a blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previously played together in Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, during and after Clapton's brief tenure with Blind Faith

[@1MollieM]

Duane Allman had also played with Bonnie and Delaney along with a lot of studio stuff just like Clapton did back then.

[@skottmjfarkus]

Man, that intro just gives me chills it's so good!

[@IspinneBass]

I've always loved this band, and this song in particular, but that album cover art work is also a magical piece in itself!

[@tallbear4981]

!!! Long live classic Rock n Roll !!!

[@unohoo29]

I grew up with the radio-chopped version. It wasn't until Goodfellas when I realized there was a medley, too. Now I cannot imagine it being anything less than the full version.

[@lerxst990]

Duane with his signature "bird call" at the very end...like "the last word"...

[@lightcaesar]

+lerxst990 I always whistle along with it, every time I listen. Tweet, tweet!

[@Pearlydewdropsdrop]

This song is so beautiful I'm in love with it.

[@kevincampbell1883]

Just soooo many fond memories with this song; so powerful !

[@benedyktkauza6273]

Ten utwór królował na naszych pierwszych prywatkach,towarzyszył naszym pierwszym miłościom i jest tak do dziś.Niech tak jest nadal.Kocham Laylę!

[@Ezwider109]

this lp.. was layed down and recorded in 10 days.. amazing.. they played their last gig ever at.. suffolk community college.. selden... in december of 1970

[@michaelj.r457]

"As far as Jimmy was concerned, with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now have one of our own as a member."

[@jeffreytrautnann2825]

Eric's putting out soul and heart into this song. Screaming out his love.

[@lethiago6960]

such a beautiful song, that reminds me the good old days lol

[@MrJeepsters]

Ce qui est remarquable dans ce solo, c'est la facilité avec laquelle il est exécuté. Incroyable !!!

[@ericdravin21]

glad to hear this song as it was on the album .. i still occationaly dust off the vinal to enjoy classics like this

[@debramott8767]

this song gives me the goose bumps!

[@anitashaw9090]

It's the one that does it for me

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@TacoBender79 This is a great song off of a great album. I have this on CD. I even saw Eric Clapton perform this live in 2007. One of his roadies gave me one of his guitar picks after the show. Robert Cray was the opening act. It was a great show! Eric Clapton and Duane Allman are two of my top ten favourite guitarists. Thanks for posting this. Have a Happy New Year.

[@filippocortese4192]

LAYLA... YOU GOT ME ON MY KNEES..... LAYLA!!!!!! LOL LOVE THIS SONG! !I LOVE ALSO TO GET TO THE BACKING TRACK AND JAM ALONG XD.

[@michaelglickman1300]

For those wondering, the musicians are lead vocalist-guitarist Eric Clapton, guitarist Duane Allman, bassist-percussionist Carl Radle, drummer-percussionist-pianist Jim Gordon, and organist-pianist-acoustic guitarist-backing vocalist Bobby Whitlock.

[@Jakea2700]

BEAST GUITAR SOLO! BEST CLASSIC ROCK SONG!!!!

[@iwilldomypart2384]

That moment when your name is Layla and you can't get over the fact that such a great song has your name WITH THE SAME SPELLING

[@vinniemoran7362]

Gregg Allman named his daughter Layla. :)

[@acommenter5919]

If Duane Allman had never played any music in his life except for the slide work in Layla, I'd still put him in the pantheon of guitarists.

[@susanduncan8546]

My Beautiful baby girl is almost 42 yrs. old and this song touches my heart as much today as it did then. I Love you Honey.

[@opijpoijpoij]

Thank you for this information! One of the greatest songs ever..

[@HighwaytoHoserville]

This is the exact reason I host an all indie radio show. the good music is out there, you just need to act like you're still in the 70s, and GO OUT PLACES! Don't let the corporations tell you whats good and what ain't. Find out for yourselves.

[@georgemorrison4392]

65 and still love this song haunts my memories

[@misstery5942]

Omg 🎸And tambourine 👌🏻

[@michaelkubalsky7093]

I love this performance of this great song.

[@すぎたにのぶゆき]

クラプトンの代表曲のレイラは、このスタジオ録音につきると思う。何故ならパティ・ボイドへの叶わぬ愛がボーカル、ギターにほとばしり出ている。ライブのレイラには、この時の燃えたぎるような感情は無い❗のぶ😘

[@beastmodeactivated247]

One of the best Riffs that there could ever be in rock history up there with smoke on the water and the final countdown

[@anthonymorelli1532]

+BEAST MODE ACTIVATED SMOKE ON THE WATER???? WHERE DO YOU COP? THAT'S THE STUPIDEST COMMENT I EVER HEARD BEAST MODE?????? CHANGE YOUR NAME TO COM MODE YOUR A MORON

[@randomperson1997]

@@anthonymorelli1532 homeboy, chill. Everyone has to start somewhere

[@anthonymorelli1532]

@@randomperson1997 YOU WAITED 6 YEARS TO WRITE THAT LMMFBO

[@randomperson1997]

@@anthonymorelli1532 yup B)

[@anthonymorelli1532]

@@randomperson1997 GET A LIFE, ONE WHERE YOU KNOW MUSIC

[@juanistic]

I'm with you. They sound like old people talking about the new generations. One would expect that the young generations (us) learned from that mistake and have an open mind to see the present and future even if they can't understand it. People shouldn't forget that they were once children or teenagers and the grown ups criticized everything about them and their generation. I wish everyone could break that cycle for once.

[@rfbarrington]

"When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy."

[@fkillough]

goodfellas right? or is it casino? I get them confused all the time

[@michaelj.r457]

Goodfellas

[@vinniemoran7362]

Who would've thought this track would work with such a scene but it did! Maybe it works because it starts from the piano change over. Martin Scorsese, fcking genius.

[@bluefukingreene]

as much of a music historian that i am,i admit it,i never realized the greatness of this song until goodphells.i like cream and all but this tune is very worldly....transcendant....almost like a cloak or a mist when the piano sings the soft segway of birth and death culminating into a inner dimensional being,that harnesses the principles of yin and yang,,,revels in its dimensions and ends with a trail of light....and then its gone....the wonderful thing is...you can hear it whenever you want.

[@สมประสงค์ช่างสมบุญ]

Love of the '70

[@dalton7145]

Two of the best ever to play guitar!

[@Harleymom108]

Yep...this is the original, bought it when it first came out and can remember getting pissed when the radio stations used to chop it up.

[@kuleczkaxD]

I know gigabytes of music, but there are only few songs that give me chills all over my body and Layla's guitar riff does it perfectly. Yesterday I tried to learn it on my guitar, but for now.. it's too difficult, I only can play riff from Smoke on the water.

[@teeracullaz]

It's revolution of life. if you like the new kind of music, or old ones, or both it's not a problem. popularize it if you don't want to lose it. Music is limitless.

[@guilhermevideira1]

I really can listen to this every single night in my life!!!

[@AndersWendelMusic]

its the two together that makes Layla work so well..its so perfect..i feel sad you dont enjoy it..its like the writer is letting her go..or is finally with her :D ..its the easing of the mind he sings about.

[@ctrlfreek1968]

One of the great love songs!

[@CDH41057]

THE greatest rock song in history, IMHO.

[@ramparson]

I fell in love with my first boyfriend with this song at the dance, I still think it has the best piano/ guitar mix for a love song ever.

[@starlitblond]

Man this is always so good to hear. The magical days of great music and the power it still has to move you. I dig that piano part. Should have taken up the piano instead of the guitar.. oh wait, it's never to late.. I can do both!

[@pix046]

I wish the whining guitar would shut up during the piano part.

[@starlitblond]

Lol..

[@robinenlennard]

the days of great music never stopped!

[@arhidumistul]

this song is the best i ever listened !

[@chaparritosway6917]

the seventies sound got this somethin, i don`t know what... but make me fly! and this song give me the wings!

[@ericdravin21]

i still enjoy this on the original LP ^_^ good song indeed

[@nojsc]

One of Rock's eternal classics. Play on....

[@MadPyrotechnicus]

The car-radio decides what I listen to. When I come home, I listen to music like this on youtube...

[@RideMyBMW]

min 3:10 "Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery..."

[@GrizzlyDipper614]

But it had nothing to do with me.

[@GrandMasterMace]

Lol Frankie carbone in the meat truck

[@RideMyBMW]

lil Miss Dudley Ricky Boogkake poor fu%$in Carbone dudes...he didnt deserve that sh$#

[@TerrenceMCruz]

Carbone deserved it lol!! dumbass went out and bought his lady a mink coat, a Caddy, after Jimmy said "wud A dal You? don't but nuttin"! lol, something like that. Funny that was brought up, nice!

[@RideMyBMW]

Stevie Colbert!!! You have GOT to play this for "The Mooch" when he comes on your show on Monday night (Aug 14., 2017)

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

the piano led coda of this song is one of the greatest sections of music ever recorded, and genuinely affects the soul, especially if you have seen goodfellas

[@Noodlegoose420]

I absolutely love this song.

[@antoniodias4718]

Masterpiece!!!!!!Love it!!!!

[@GaryBarker-cartoonist]

@Tacobender79 this is the version from the original Derek and the Dominoes album, there may be many versions around but this is original and that best.

[@8utch3r46]

No other version of this song has this fking atmosphere... you cant almost feel the desperation from his voice... there will never be song like this again

[@swomac8199]

Duane allman at the end beautiful song

[@opisthokonta]

+steve womac Allman rules!

[@SlyShippy]

+steve womac I think they recorded the whole outtro in a totally different session, called Duane back for it and everything, naturally. But I must be honest I've always been unsure about the outtro, how they just repeat that piano ad nauseum, not that I'm complaining because it's just more Duane on tape, and lord knows he was taken too soon.

[@SlyShippy]

Haha was Duane Allman very good? Yes. And Clapton loved him dearly.

[@bobkeener5141]

He didn't love him enough to pay him.

[@bobkeener5141]

First time I hear it I thought it was the Allman Brothers.

[@Majewski32]

This song is like essence of America, when I play this I fell like I'm in Los Angeles or Las Vegas. Heart touching tune.

[@jamesnunez1537]

"To make the best of the situation, before I finally go insane"...

[@TheIoniaboy]

Duane Allman, greatest slide player ever. RIP Bro, you left us way to soon.

[@itslaenna]

love being named partially because of this song ❤️

[@鈴風清風]

クラプトンのアルバムの中でも　80年代の　MTVのライブと　ならんで　最高の　パフォーマンスだ　デュアンオールマンの貢献度が高いのも　忘れずに・・・・・

[@ecmarquez2508]

awesome tune !!

[@chrystinesalmon758]

Autant de frissons dans un seul morceaux ....

[@Mysterwright]

Depending on the pressing of the LP there have cases of two identical copies having different versions. I believe its because the labels back then only pressed for music stores by pre-order amount and not mass market. Then. Later it became how it is today but there were no major chains really until Sacramento's own Tower Records.

[@normanmcfarland2484]

brilliant love the piano

[@popetitation]

hey you got the faith in humanity back to me i'm very proud of you :´)

[@joseenriqueagutaya131]

This is the version in the original album and in earlier CD versions so you have to increase the volume of your receiver,tablet and iPad.

[@DavidRFIT]

One of the greatest rock songs :)

[@TacoBender79]

I noticed you asked which version of Layla is this, so I added some info in the description. It's true: there are *dozens* of different versions of this song! This one is taken from the "Complete Clapton" anthology, and is the one that I prefer :) I don't know if it's featured in other CDs or anthologies, but it's surely different from the ones on the Derek And The Dominos album issues (original or remastered). Needless to say, the original CD sounds a lot better than this KZbin encoding. ;-)

[@pabloleandro1626]

Just Amazing

[@vitorhugowellenkamp4495]

There are douzens versions but all different...and all good !!!

[@AkotProductions]

I don't know why I love this song so much...

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Bobby Whitlock hated the ending coda that you hear starting at 3:10. Although only drummer Jim Gordon was credited for this second part, Whitlock claims he heard this melody when he noticed Jim working on a song called "Time" with his then girlfriend Rita Coolidge and some other folks (including Coolidge's sister, Priscilla, who was then married to Booker T. Jones). He also said the melody would otherwise spoil Eric's part of the song and claimed Rita's boyfriend "ripped her off."

[@ledzeppelin27]

Happy 58th birthday Stratocaster, of which this awesome tune was laid down on C:

[@Mermaid587]

Very intelligent answer, mate. Very intelligent indeed...

[@loldacz]

No way! Congratulations!

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

This song moves one into an entirely different sphere of spiritual dimension!

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very good................................

[@nashtndawg]

Happy Birthday Duane Allman!! RIP! You will live in our hearts forever!

[@Bends95]

gotta love that guitar,that's what hooks me!

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Interesting! I can play this on my smartphone again.

[@patrickweightman7745]

bobby whitlock on piano,youtube him,great muscian and vocalist

[@varoennauraa]

Its 12 now. Clapton still has it.

[@phillipmcquade7219]

Every time I hear the piano exit I picture finding dead mobsters everywhere

[@potui1]

This is gold