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"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.

Eric Clapton needed a new path after he decided Cream was no longer going to be his way forward. Derek and the Dominos, an all-star collection of players that cohered like a band that had been ...

The song peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100.