"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.

What began as a short-lived supergroup quickly became the backdrop for one of rock’s most famous real-life love stories set to music.

What if someone released an impassioned twin-guitar genius record and nobody cared? That's basically what happened – at least initially – with the only album from Derek and the Dominos. Issued on Nov.

Eric Clapton is on the short list of greatest guitarists of all time, laying down some of the nastiest guitar riffs and solos of all time. Perhaps his greatest work came in at No. 11 on Guitar World's ...