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
George Harrison (footballer) George Harrison (footballer) George Harrison (18 July 1892 – 12 February 1939) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left. George Harrison was born in the South Derbyshire mining village of Church Gresley on 18 July 1892. He married Frances Elizabeth O'Brian in the village church of St. George and St. Mary on 13 May 1913. They went on to have one son, George Harold. Born in Church Gresley, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, Harrison played professionally for Everton, and earned two caps for England in 1921.</ref> Following George Harrison's retirement he entered the pub trade, as may footballers did