Eric Clapton the final name became "Derek and the Dominos". Clapton's close friendship with George Harrison brought him into contact with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, with whom he became deeply infatuated. When she spurned his advances, Clapton's unrequited affections prompted most of the material for the Dominos' album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (1970). Heavily blues-influenced, the album features the twin lead guitars of Clapton and Duane Allman, with Allman's slide guitar as a key ingredient of the sound. Working at Criteria Studios in Miami with Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, who had worked with Clapton on Cream's "Disraeli Gears", the
Circles (George Harrison song) film soundtracks. Among these projects, the 1985 HandMade comedy "Water" reunited four of the musicians who played on "Circles", as Moran wrote part of the film score (with Harrison), and Harrison, Lord, Moran and Cooper made a cameo appearance as "the Singing Rebels Band", along with Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr. In February 1983, "Circles" was released as the B-side to the album's second single in the United States, "I Really Love You". Discussing the reception to "Gone Troppo" in their book "Eight Arms to Hold You", Chip Madinger and Mark Easter identify "Circles" as the only track "reflecting weightier