Derek And The Dominos

Derek and the Dominos was a British group of music of the beginning of the Années 1970.

History

The British group was formed with the Printemps year 1970 around famous the Guitariste Eric Clapton with members of his old group Delaney And Bonnie And Friends. The group was then composed of Bobby Whitlock (keyboard, Chant), Carl Radle (low) and Jim Gordon (battery).

After a first concert with London the June 14th 1970, they started a round in all the the United Kingdom during the summer. At the end of this round, they undertook the recording of an album (of end August with October) which leaves in November 1970 under the name of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs . One can note the presence on this disc of one of the most famous songs of Eric Clapton: Layla . It is also to note that the Guitariste Duane Allman took part in the recordings and shoulder Clapton with brilliance. After the exit of the album, the group takes again the round with the the United Kingdom and the the United States with a last date the December 6th. Eric Clapton was a large friend of George Harrison one of the four Beatles and Layla was not other than his wife. Eric Clapton was insane in love with it so that he married it thereafter and than he wrote this song with his image. This quarrel in love separated the two artists until beginning of the year 90.

In 1971, they meet to record a second album but separate before the end from the recording. Some very successful titles of the meetings of the second album appeared in 1988 on the box Crossroads . It is necessary in particular to retain Got To Get Better In has Little While , surely one of the best songs of Eric Clapton who will take it again besides during his round 2004.

The group was touched by many tragedies. Duane Allman died of an motorbike accident the October 29th 1971, the bass player Carl Radle died in alcohol in 1981, the beater Jim Gordon killed his mother with blow of hammer at the time of a crisis of schizophrenia, and Jimi Hendrix, to which the Dominos had paid homage by taking again Little Wing , died without to have been able to hear this recovery.

Discography:

Live At The Fillmore , 1994 It acts d" a resumption of " In Concert" with 4 additional songs. Recorded in 1970.
The Layla Sessions 20th Anniversary Edition , 1990
In Concert , 1973 recorded in 1970.
Layla And Other Assorted Coils Songs , 1970

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