Wonderful Tonight

"Wonderful Tonight"
Single by Eric Clapton
from the album Slowhand
B-side"Peaches and Diesel"
Released10 March 1978 (1978-03-10)[1]
RecordedMay 1977
GenreSoft rock
Length3:45
LabelRSO
Songwriter(s)Eric Clapton
Producer(s)Glyn Johns
Eric Clapton singles chronology
"Lay Down Sally"
(1977)
"Wonderful Tonight"
(1978)
"Promises"
(1978)

"Wonderful Tonight" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton. It was included on Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand. Clapton wrote the song on his 1974 Martin D-28 guitar about Pattie Boyd.[2] The female vocal harmonies on the song are provided by Marcella Detroit (then Marcy Levy) and Yvonne Elliman. The song is his most popular download on Spotify with more than 480,000,000 streams.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference d100 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Chris Smith (2006). Greenwood Press (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From arenas to the underground, 1974–1980. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-313-33611-9. "the hard-rock pioneer and guitar god also become a soft-rock star in the mid-1970s. He celebrated his sobriety with (... ) the Top 5 hit "Lay Down Sally" and hit No. 16 with the ballad "Wonderful Tonight," both off his 1977 Slowhand album"
  3. ^ "Eric Clapton". Spotify. Retrieved 24 May 2024.