"We were a make-believe band," Clapton later said in an interview with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. "We were all hiding inside it," Clapton continued. "Derek and the Dominos — the whole thing.

It's one of the defining guitar songs in rock history, but it never became a No. 1 hit. "Layla," by Derek and the Dominos, which features iconic dual guitar solos from Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, ...