History Music / LaylaAndOtherAssortedLoveSongs

* UpdatedReRelease: CD releases of the album from 1990 onward manage to store the entire 76:44 album across a single disc, owing to unofficial revisions to the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format around that time that increased the maximum capacity from 74 minutes to 80; prior to this, the album had to be released across two [=CDs=].

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Unlike Bessie Smith and Bobby Baker, who made "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" famous during [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition]], a BritishRockStar isn't quite believable blowing his money on bootleg whiskey.

''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'' is the first and only studio album by Music/DerekAndTheDominos, released in 1970 through Creator/PolydorRecords in the UK and Creator/AtcoRecords in the US. Fresh off the sessions for ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'', Music/EricClapton and houseguest/songwriter Bobby Whitlock commandeered the rhythm section from combative soul singers Delaney and Bonnie to form Music/DerekAndTheDominos, a [[ShortLivedBigImpact short-lived]] BluesRock band in which - by contractual force when necessary -- Clapton would be merely an anonymous member of an anonymous band, touring small clubs to little fanfare and [[SpecialGuest towing in]] [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand a young hotshot guitarist]] to record an unheralded album. Thus hidden from critical expectations, Clapton expressed [[UnrequitedLove his seemingly doomed love]] for Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend Music/GeorgeHarrison, throughout a double album full of blues covers and [[{{Soul}} soul-influenced]] originals.

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''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'' is the first and only studio album by Music/DerekAndTheDominos, released in 1970. Fresh off the sessions for ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'', Music/EricClapton and houseguest/songwriter Bobby Whitlock commandeered the rhythm section from combative soul singers Delaney and Bonnie to form Music/DerekAndTheDominos, a [[ShortLivedBigImpact short-lived]] BluesRock band in which - by contractual force when necessary - Clapton would be merely an anonymous member of an anonymous band, touring small clubs to little fanfare and [[SpecialGuest towing in]] [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand a young hotshot guitarist]] to record an unheralded album. Thus hidden from critical expectations, Clapton expressed [[UnrequitedLove his seemingly doomed love]] for Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend Music/GeorgeHarrison, throughout a double album full of blues covers and [[{{Soul}} soul-influenced]] originals.

* RefrainFromAssuming: The song that goes "I don't wanna fade away"? That one's "Bell Bottom Blues".

* FilkSong: "I Am Yours" and "Layla" are based off of the twelfth-century poem "The Story of Layla and Manjun" by Nizami Ganjavi.

The album was listed at #117 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]].

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[-Note: early CD releases are across two discs; releases since 1990 are on a single disc-]

[[AC: Side One]]

* TruckDriversGearChange: In the vocal portion of "Layla", the EpicRiff is in D minor, then it jumps to C-sharp minor for the verse, which resolves in into E major, before it falls back down into D minor for the chorus, then repeats that pattern over and over. A notable example of a big {{modulation}} in a rock song that isn't just restricted to the last verse. The coda is in C Major.

''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'' is the debut and only studio album by Music/DerekAndTheDominos, released in 1970. Fresh off the sessions for ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'', Music/EricClapton and houseguest/songwriter Bobby Whitlock commandeered the rhythm section from combative soul singers Delaney and Bonnie to form Music/DerekAndTheDominos, a [[ShortLivedBigImpact short-lived]] BluesRock band in which - by contractual force when necessary - Clapton would be merely an anonymous member of an anonymous band, touring small clubs to little fanfare and [[SpecialGuest towing in]] [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand a young hotshot guitarist]] to record an unheralded album. Thus hidden from critical expectations, Clapton expressed [[UnrequitedLove his seemingly doomed love]] for Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend Music/GeorgeHarrison, throughout a double album full of blues covers and [[{{Soul}} soul-influenced]] originals.

The album was listed at nr. #117 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]].

The album was listed at nr. #117 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]]

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