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Mick Jones from the band Foreigner helped Clapton write this.
This won the 1990 Grammy for Best Rock Vocal. Clapton got a Grammy in 1972 for playing on the Concert For Bangladesh, which won Best Album, but this was his first as a solo artist. He won 6 more in 1993, including 3 for "Tears In Heaven."
Clapton's record company, Warner Brothers, was pressuring him to write something similar to "Layla." This is what he came up with.
Phil Collins played on the Journeyman album and sang backup on some tracks. Clapton played on Collins' first album in 1981.
The bridge is based on "Badge," one of Clapton's hits with Cream. Mick Jones had the idea to use it.
The first single from Journeyman, the first album Clapton released after his Crossroads boxed set.
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Same perfection as Pretending and Blues in "A", I always look for the emotion in it, as a player myself, I think it's in a class all to itself. Ric, McDonough, Ga
- Ric, McDonough, GA
I think Clapton wrote this when he and George Harrison's wife, Patti Boyd, got a divorce.
- Steven, West Carrollton, OH
The unplugged version has the craziest piano I've ever heard.
- Dan, Lee, NH
Eric clapton thought his grandparents were his real parents until he was nine.
- Jenny Ford, Auston, TX
The one that is similar to Layla is "Old Love"
if you slow down the first Layla guitar riff and put on the 5th and 6th strings it is the exact same as Old Love's riff...it is also in the same key
- Schmitty, Vienna, VA
im not competley sure if clapton wrote two songs called "bad love" and "old love", but he did write "old love" and it is similar to layla, at least the guitar is. I believe that is what you guys may have meant with this song is "old love"
- Brad, Manteca, CA
I disagree. Old Love is slower and more bluesy. Bad Love is a completely different song.
- Deana, Indianapolis, IN