Lady from Verona
| Lady from Verona | |
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| Eric Clapton | |
| length | 4:46 |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| Author (s) | Eric Clapton |
Lady from Verona is an unreleased pop rock song by British rock musician Eric Clapton . He wrote the song in 1986 for his then 28-year-old Italian partner Lory Del Santo , who is a model and actress.
Content and music
In the first verse of the song, Clapton describes that he is in love with a woman from Verona and that she, like himself, is a loner because she does not want to enter into bonds. In the second stanza, Clapton expresses that, in addition to the Italian clothes, the cars, the wine and the dishes, he especially loves his lady from Verona because she is so good for him. In the chorus of the piece, according to music journalist Maurice Chittenden of The Sunday Times , there is a hidden message about the birth of their son Conor.
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This is followed by a guitar solo by the British rock musician. Then the refrain is repeated again with the following first verse. With the fadeout sound effect , the piece ends after 4 minutes and 46 seconds. The British author and biographer Marc Roberty notes that the title shows a “walking blues scheme between major and minor ”.
Recording and presentation
The title was recorded between April and May 1986 at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood during the recording work for Clapton's tenth studio album August . On the recording, produced by Clapton, Phil Collins , and Tom Dowd , Clapton acted as singer and guitarist, Collins as drummer, Nathan East as bassist and Greg Phillinganes as keyboardist. Clapton used his signature Stratocaster and a distorter .
Clapton went to Lori Del Santo one day and said that he had dedicated a song to her. Del Santo wanted Clapton to publish the song, but according to Del Santos he did not because the compact cassette on which the song was located was destroyed by Conor. But Clapton gave the reason for not being released that he was still married to Pattie Boyd at the time: “One song I didn't put on the album was“ Lady from Verona ”, which I had written especially for Lori. Pattie couldn't have coped with that. ”Marc Roberty describes the track as“ very memorable ”and thinks that the title would have been “ a very good single ”. After Conor's death on March 20, 1991, the cassette was locked and not touched for 20 years. Del Santo had the recording repaired, burned to CD and played the song on July 10, 2006 on US television; without the permission of her ex-partner Clapton, who didn't want to talk about the song afterwards.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eric Clapton: My Life . 3. Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03934-4 , pp. 240 .
- ↑ a b c Maurice Chittenden: Clapton's ex reveals lost love song. The Sunday Times , July 6, 2006, accessed April 9, 2015 .
- ^ A b c Marc Roberty: The Complete Guide to the Music of Eric Clapton . Omnibus Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7119-4305-2 , p. 110 .
- ↑ Eric Clapton: My Life . 3. Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03934-4 , pp. 238 .