| "Wonderful Tonight" | ||||
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| Single by Eric Clapton | ||||
| from the album Slowhand | ||||
| B-side | "Peaches and Diesel" | |||
| Released | 10 March 1978[1] | |||
| Recorded | May 1977 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 3:45 | |||
| Label | RSO | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Eric Clapton | |||
| Producer(s) | Glyn Johns | |||
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"Wonderful Tonight" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton. It was included on Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand which is his most popular album. 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]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
d100was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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"
- ^ "Eric Clapton". Spotify. Retrieved 24 May 2024.