Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs. Dominos, Derek and the (American/British. Active 1970-1971.) Emile Theodore Frandsen de Schomberg's "La Fille au Bouquet" was chosen as the cover of Clapton's 1970 masterpiece, which ends with a pair of epics: the two-part "Layla" and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock's heartrending ode to his lost dog, "Thorn Tree in the Garden." Like the Surrealists he admired and like his fellow Abstract Expressionists, Frandsen de Schomberg was fascinated by symbolic artistic critiques, and here we find an assessment of Clapton's obsession with African American blues through the cold stare of a pallid white face.
