Dying of cute

Pattie Boyd, Vogue, 1967 Photo Norman Parkinson

Eric Clapton

revolutionaryetude:

LAYLADerek and the Dominos
Please don’t say we’ll never find a wayAnd tell me all my love’s in vain.Layla, you’ve got me on my knees.Layla, I’m begging, darling please.Layla, darling won’t you ease my worried mind.
Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd, with her long legs and blonde bangs, was the face of the 60’s. As a model she worked with Twiggy and Mary Quant and, as a witch, she married both George Harrison and Eric Clapton and had an affair with Mick Jagger and John Lennon. As a muse, eventually, she inspired some of the most beautiful love songs in rock history, including “the” definitive rock love song: Layla.
Clapton used another name, inspired by the Persian story of Layla and Majum (the Madman), because he wrote the song when his love was still one-way: in fact he desperately loved his friend’s wife for ten years before marrying her, descending into heroin addiction and moving in with her sister Paula, who left him after hearing Layla, because it was so clear that she was just a substitute for Pattie. Released in 1970, despite the unmistakable guitar part and piano coda, at the beginning it was oddly unsuccessful. It is now ranked #27 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Both of the marriages failed: the first due to Harrison’s several affairs and mysticism, and the second due to Slow Hand’s struggle with alcohol. She, though, said that when she married Clapton it was soul calling to soul. They had no choice, like they were meant to be together. It was too much, and that’s why they say, when you find your soulmate, you run - the other way.
Here you can find the original version of this song, which is equally famous also in its unplugged version. Live versions are usually slower: here there is another one, with a beautiful jazz introduction. And in case you want to know some of the other songs inspired by Pattie:
- Something (The Beatles)- Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos)- Wonderful tonight (Eric Clapton)

LAYLA
Derek and the Dominos

Please don’t say we’ll never find a way
And tell me all my love’s in vain.
Layla, you’ve got me on my knees.
Layla, I’m begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won’t you ease my worried mind.

Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd, with her long legs and blonde bangs, was the face of the 60’s. As a model she worked with Twiggy and Mary Quant and, as a witch, she married both George Harrison and Eric Clapton and had an affair with Mick Jagger and John Lennon. As a muse, eventually, she inspired some of the most beautiful love songs in rock history, including “the” definitive rock love song: Layla.

Clapton used another name, inspired by the Persian story of ~~Layla and Majum~~ (the Madman), because he wrote the song when his love was still one-way: in fact he desperately loved his friend’s wife for ten years before marrying her, descending into heroin addiction and moving in with her sister Paula, who left him after hearing Layla, because it was so clear that she was just a substitute for Pattie.
Released in 1970, despite the unmistakable guitar part and piano coda, at the beginning it was oddly unsuccessful. It is now ranked #27 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Both of the marriages failed: the first due to Harrison’s several affairs and mysticism, and the second due to Slow Hand’s struggle with alcohol. She, though, said that when she married Clapton it was soul calling to soul. They had no choice, like they were meant to be together. It was too much, and that’s why they say, when you find your soulmate, you run - the other way.

~~Here~~ you can find the original version of this song, which is equally famous also in its ~~unplugged version~~. Live versions are usually slower: ~~here~~ there is another one, with a beautiful jazz introduction. And in case you want to know some of the other songs inspired by Pattie:

- ~~Something~~ (The Beatles)
- ~~Bell Bottom Blues~~ (Derek and the Dominos)
- ~~Wonderful tonight~~ (Eric Clapton)

Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker

revolutionaryetude:

WHITE ROOM
Cream

In the white room with black curtains near the station
[…] I’ll wait in this place where the sun never shines.

I remember listening to this song for the first time: it was a cover by a friend of mine’s band - I didn’t really know Cream at that time, but I immediately knew that was one of the greatest musical epiphany in my entire life - like, e.g., Paranoid Android, Black, or Tchaikovski Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35.

Cream are the first supergroup in rock history and, as everything dealing with rock blues and Clapton, a legend.
They used this song as the opening for their whole farewell tour and, as for many songs written in 1967-68, the meaning of White Room is actually open: is it about Vietnam, Pete Brown’s flat (a beat poet who wrote the lyrics) or cocaine effects?

At some point, however, it gets hard not to identify the room and the writer’s consciousness and, in the colorless context of the words, Clapton’s guitar seems a rebel bringing anarchy and life, with one of his best solos. Lyrics and music are then fighting together and working together to build one of the most brilliant rock songs of all times.

Jeez, my heart could stop beating right now

Eric Clapton. I think those were the times of Cream, or derek & the Dominos. Let’s just say LAYLA!