Scott's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Layla (Unplugged) by Eric Clapton

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Layla (Unplugged) by Eric Clapton. This is off of his 1992 album Unplugged. The original song was released by Clapton's former band, Derek and the Dominos, on their 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. It is a much faster rock song with wild guitars and harsher vocals. It also is longer and includes a piano coda that is omitted from the unplugged version.

This song was a love song from Clapton to George Harrison's then wife, Pattie Boyd. Clapton and George were friends and Clapton fell in love with her. The title comes from the Persian story Layla and Majnun which is about a princess who was married off by her father to a man she didn't love. This drove Majnun crazy like it drove Clapton crazy that he couldn't have Pattie. George and Pattie divorced in 1977 and Clapton and Pattie married in 1979. George was okay with it and even attended the wedding. However, the marriage end in 1988. At least we got this song out of it.