10 Bands That Fell Apart After One Album

As the '70s kicked off, Eric Clapton was being seen as God, only to find himself in emotional Hell. After already climbing to the top of the music world as part of the Yardbirds and Cream, he still was jaded about his love life, being smitten by his friend George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd. He knew that spending his life with her might be a pipe dream, so he helped channel that turmoil into the one thing he knew all too well: the blues.

Assembling a group with future guitar god Duane Allman, Derek and the Dominoes was more or less a side project in between Blind Faith and Slowhand's solo career, where he would pour out his soul to his forbidden lover. Throughout every song on this album, you can hear Eric grieving about not being able to express his feelings, like the title track and Bell Bottom Blues, as he wonders what life is going to look like if he ever had the chance to be with Pattie.

Even though Eric eventually found love with Patti later in life, the songs still held up enough decades later, with the acoustic version of the title track giving the song a second lease on life during Clapton's Unplugged session. The blues may have seemed a little bit old fashioned at this point in rock and roll, but the amount of heartache that happens in between these notes is most likely never going to go out of style.