Now, it leads digital sales by 2 to 1, with a million units for the former against half a million for the latter. In the UK, the song failed to chart at first, then went to #7 in 1972, re-peaked at #4 in 1982, and did it again in 1992 at #45.

As incredible as it seems, From The Cradle became his first studio set since 461 Ocean Boulevard some 20 years earlier to hit the top 10 in both the US and the UK. In fact, it even got to #1 in both countries, a first since the lone Blind Faith album. When their Greatest Hits album was released, I was impressed by their version of Star Spangled Banner. The most recent of their albums that I bought, I liked for the first few listens but it didn’t really hold my interest. If you don’t get the difference then you don’t like music, you just think you do because everybody else likes what’s out there. Tatsaku, Ren (December 2011). The Oricon Sales Report (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Oricon Style – Recording Industry Association of Japan. a b Leimbacher, Ed (24 December 1970). "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 19 February 2012.In September 2013, Universal Music Japan issued a remastered version of Layla on SHM-CD, a new compact disc revision manufactured with an improved polycarbonate material. [54] This edition was edited in DSD at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo. The DSD source was flat-transferred from analogue master tapes at Sterling Sound in New York City in 2013. [51] Eric Clapton – Layla (Acoustic)". GfK Entertainment (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 29 December 2015. Japan: AWA streams * 68 / 4 (AWA has 4% of the Japanese streaming market, and 32% are already considered through Spotify’s extrapolation) Some deep cuts are strong as well, as shown with the era Riding with the King that totals 725,000 sales in spite of no real hit. What about career totals? The slow hand ends up at 174.93 million equivalent album sales with his solo discography alone.

Idlewood South is a big step forward from the Allmans’ first — that combination of Santana and Led Zeppelin, with the Led finally weighing everything down — but its second side disappoints. Layla, on the other hand, sustains itself pretty well throughout, but we’ve heard a lot of it before. Keane, Kerry (2004). Crossroads Guitar Auction – Eric Clapton and Friends for the Crossroads Centre – Thursday 24 June 2004. Christie's New York. ASIN B000UVFW6G. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Layla". YouTube. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021 . Retrieved 18 March 2012.

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While his demons still struggled him many times in later years, this was the beginning of his solo career as we know it, with his sophisticated style and great harmonies.Shapiro, Harry (January 2001). "The Prince of Love … Or How the Recording of 'Layla', Clapton's Ode to Forbidden Love, Made Victims of Derek and the Dominos". Mojo. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "MTV Unplugged – Eric Clapton | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 December 2015. American album certifications – Derek & the Dominos – Layla". Recording Industry Association of America.

The least that we can say is that Eric Clapton hasn’t been too good at escaping fame. He was just too good of a guitarist, developping himself into a strong all-around performer through the years.

“He poured his feelings into his music”

Allman, Galadrielle (2014). Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman. New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 978-1-4000-6894-4. See primarily Chapter 20. British album certifications – Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 June 2021. Layla" is a difficult one, because it's a difficult song to perform live. You have to have a good complement of musicians to get all of the ingredients going, but when you've got that ... It's difficult to do as a quartet, for instance, because there are some parts you have to play and sing completely opposing lines, which is almost impossible to do. If you've got a big band, which I will have on the tour, then it will be easy to do something like "Layla" – and I'm very proud of it. I love to hear it. It's almost like it's not me. It's like I'm listening to someone that I really like. Derek and The Dominos was a band I really liked – and it's almost like I wasn't in that band. It's just a band that I'm a fan of. Sometimes, my own music can be like that. When it's served its purpose to being good music, I don't associate myself with it any more. It's like someone else. It's easy to do those songs then. The Layla Sessions, the 18 September 1990, remixed on one CD, with two additional "sessions discs";