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“I said, ‘That’s my music.’ His manager said, ‘You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this’”: Rita Coolidge alleges she helped write Eric Clapton’s Layla – but never got credit for it

In a resurfaced interview, Coolidge recalls the time she sought a songwriting credit for composing the song’s piano coda – but was rebuffed

Guitar World

“RIP Bobby”: Eric Clapton pays tribute to Bobby Whitlock, the Memphis musician who sang and played keyboards in Derek and the Dominos and recorded with George Harrison

Whitlock also supported Rita Coolidge’s claim that she should have received a writing credit on Layla

MusicRadar

"One of those shows that you will be thinking about for the rest of your life": Tedeschi Trucks Band announce live album of historic Mad Dogs & Englishmen show

Tedeschi Trucks Band's Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’) features Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Chris Robinson, Warren Haynes and more

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"There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that level”: The genius of Eric Clapton's controversial masterpiece, Layla

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“Jim took the melody from Rita’s song and didn’t give her credit for writing it”: The piano that was used to record the famous coda from Derek & The Dominos' Layla is up for sale, but the writing credit for it remains controversial

Rita Coolidge claims that she wrote the part with her then boyfriend Jim Gordon, but her contribution was never officially acknowledged

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Kris Kristofferson: 10 of his greatest songs

From his most enduring hit inspired by Sinatra to the song that enabled him to stop working for a living, we pick some highlights from the late singer’s long career

The Guardian - UK

Kris Kristofferson obituary

Songwriter, singer and actor known for such classic hits as For the Good Times and Me and Bobby McGee

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The heartwarming love story of Kris Kristofferson and his wife Lisa Meyers

As news breaks of Kris Kristofferson’s peaceful passing, we look back on his calm, consistent love story with Lisa Meyers, his wife of 41 years

Evening Standard

"If I was young now, I'd probably be stalking Taylor Swift. We have affairs, we make it dramatic and write hit songs about it" - Stephen Stills on the romance that drove a classic and the making of his first solo album

Growing tired of the tensions in CSN&Y, Stephen Stills moved to the UK to record his debut album, with a little help from Jimi, Ringo and Eric

Louder

Jim Gordon obituary

Accomplished rock drummer of the 1960s and 70s who played with George Harrison and Eric Clapton

The Guardian - UK

Jim Gordon, drummer with the Beach Boys and Eric Clapton who killed his own mother, dies aged 77

Jim Gordon featured with a host of well-known acts

Wales Online

Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

WEKU

Jim Gordon dies: Drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, jailed for murder dies at 77

Jim Gordon, drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, has passed away from natural causes aged 77

Daily Mirror

Jim Gordon, famed session drummer convicted of murdering his mother, dies at 77

LOS ANGELES — Jim Gordon, the prolific session drummer who played with some of rock’s biggest stars — including the Beach Boys, several Beatles and Eric Clapton, whose classic “Layla” he’s credited with co-writing — before he was sentenced to prison for killing his mother, died Monday at the state-run…

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‘He was central to music history’: the forgotten legacy of Leon Russell

In an illuminating new book, the incredible highs and devastating lows of the influential musician are remembered

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‘There was an enormous amount of drugs being taken’: Graham Nash on groupies, feuds, divorce and ego

The Crosby, Stills and Nash singer on the wild early years, Joni Mitchell, his former bandmates and why his children no longer speak to him

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