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.

"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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pattie Boyd got a reminder of her place in rock history this week. The former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton ...

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, ...

Left: Pattie Boyd and George Harrison, Photo by Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Right: Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton, Photo by John Rodgers / Redferns More than 55 years later, the song ...