Post by byrdsmaniac on Jun 20, 2006 15:49:58 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla
""Layla" is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December of 1970. It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs[2], featuring an unmistakable guitar figure, played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, as lead-in. Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Jim Gordon, similar to the combination of fragments John Lennon and Paul McCartney used to create "A Day in the Life".
Clapton was inspired to write the piece by his burning unrequited love for Patti Boyd,
the wife of his friend George Harrison.
The name 'Layla' may derive from Layla Sarakalo[/color], a Paris, France-based journalist and habitué of the European rock scene."
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Here's more about Layla Sarakalo:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Sarakalo
"Layla Sarakalo, born in San Francisco, California, is a journalist, fashion designer, art historian, and sometime actress.
Sarakalo was classically trained under Beaumont Newhall (founder of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, photography division) at the University of New Mexico. Following graduation, she taught costume history and textile restoration in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.
She lived in Paris, France for a number of years where she was a pioneer in French radio. Sarakalo hosted the nightly show "Radio Free Gypsy" on KLOD 96.6, the only English-language radio station in Paris. Her guests included much of the royalty from the world of rock music, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton[/color].
It is believed that Clapton gleaned the name 'Layla' from Sarakalo when composing Layla about his unrequited love for Patti Boyd, the wife of The Beatles' George Harrison. Layla is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December of 1970. It is considered to be one of rock music's definitive love songs.
Sarakalo later opened her own small fashion house in Paris, "Icon of Style", near the Rodin Museum.
In 2005 she was revealed to fans of the television and film series Star Trek as the "Mystery Woman" who speaks with 'Uhura' (Nichelle Nichols) and 'Chekov' (Walter Koenig) in a scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the most popular of the Star Trek films."
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Here is the story of her appearence in the Star Trek movie,
as well as photographs of her:
www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/14344.html
"10.27.2005
Visions of Layla: Taking the Voyage Home
Star Trek is full of many weird and wonderful stories from actors and production crew about how they ended up working on the show or for the feature films. One of these stories is certainly unique ...
In 1986, a woman by the name of Layla Sarakalo was living in San Francisco above the historic Jack Kerouac-era Savoy Tivoli café on Grant Avenue. One day, early in the morning, she woke up to find her car had been towed courtesy of a film production. In cities where location work is done, it is common to see temporary No Parking signs put up to help facilitate the parking of production trucks required for the shoot. However, Layla never saw the signs or received a warning and was determined to take action. Something was happening here and she knew what it was; that something had to do with recovering the towing fee with a day's work as an extra on the film that towed her car!
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," as everyone in the known universe is aware, focused on our intrepid crew returning in time to the 1980s Bay Area in hopes of recovering two whales required by a mysterious probe back in the future. The San Francisco street scenes provided some of the film's most memorable and humorous moments. It also provided an avenue for Layla ...
After deciding what she would do, Layla changed into a suitable outfit, grabbed her whippet Anubis (her dog) and headed down the street to where the action was taking place. After speaking with the assistant director on whether she could get a day's work, she was told she could and was instructed to stand with the group of extras already hired for the day.
Layla said to the others that she had never engaged in this acting thing before and asked what she should do. They told her to act naturally. With the cameras rolling, Layla walked down the street into shot and soon came to the spot where Uhura and Chekov were unsuccessfully trying to find out from passing pedestrians where the nuclear wessels [sic] were. Most of the extras who were asked this question looked at the two like they were from another planet and carried on. Layla, however, answered them. Naturally.
The problem was, she wasn't supposed to say anything. But, because she did, the filmmakers decided that this was good, spontaneous stuff and that they should use it! A bit of rancor by fellow extras aside, Layla's star was now lit and hanging in the firmament.
After some retakes, they finally broke for lunch. When production personnel approached her, they asked if she was in the union (Screen Actors Guild). "No," she replied with a smile, "I'm in the neighborhood."
Am I Still Dreamin' Yet?
Fast forward eight months, and Layla is at the Bay Meadows racetrack south of San Francisco. When the man selling the Daily Racing Form sees her, he says he saw her in "Star Trek IV" last night and that she was great. A bit dumbfounded, Layla walked away. Later that day, someone else told her she was in "The Voyage Home." She had better go see the film, she thought, and find out what all
the hullabaloo was about. Layla went to the movie theater and, lo and behold, there she was on a 50-foot screen, talking with Uhura and Chekov!
She later discovered that she was related by marriage to one of the writers, Steve Meerson, who wrote the film with Peter Krikes. Turns out Layla had some of the only unscripted dialogue in the entire film. The weeks of promotion around the film also saw clips from the movie shown on various TV shows, such as Good Morning America, clips that featured Layla's scene no less. Her part remained relatively anonymous, however, until someone pointed out that the scene had been mentioned on the American Movie Channel (AMC), and she was described as the "mystery woman."
A time after "Star Trek IV," Layla found herself living in Paris running a small fashion house. Her part in Star Trek notwithstanding, she had remained unknown to fans all these years, until now. She's come out of hiding, has done at least one convention so far, and may be attending some others soon. Keep an eye out for her if you do, she's fun to talk to and she's guaranteed to give you something extra. Her honesty and candor is refreshing."
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related thread for possible reference:
60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=CelebRepl&thread=1098605945&page=5
""Layla" is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December of 1970. It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs[2], featuring an unmistakable guitar figure, played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, as lead-in. Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Jim Gordon, similar to the combination of fragments John Lennon and Paul McCartney used to create "A Day in the Life".
Clapton was inspired to write the piece by his burning unrequited love for Patti Boyd,
the wife of his friend George Harrison.
The name 'Layla' may derive from Layla Sarakalo[/color], a Paris, France-based journalist and habitué of the European rock scene."
(end)
Here's more about Layla Sarakalo:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Sarakalo
"Layla Sarakalo, born in San Francisco, California, is a journalist, fashion designer, art historian, and sometime actress.
Sarakalo was classically trained under Beaumont Newhall (founder of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, photography division) at the University of New Mexico. Following graduation, she taught costume history and textile restoration in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.
She lived in Paris, France for a number of years where she was a pioneer in French radio. Sarakalo hosted the nightly show "Radio Free Gypsy" on KLOD 96.6, the only English-language radio station in Paris. Her guests included much of the royalty from the world of rock music, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton[/color].
It is believed that Clapton gleaned the name 'Layla' from Sarakalo when composing Layla about his unrequited love for Patti Boyd, the wife of The Beatles' George Harrison. Layla is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December of 1970. It is considered to be one of rock music's definitive love songs.
Sarakalo later opened her own small fashion house in Paris, "Icon of Style", near the Rodin Museum.
In 2005 she was revealed to fans of the television and film series Star Trek as the "Mystery Woman" who speaks with 'Uhura' (Nichelle Nichols) and 'Chekov' (Walter Koenig) in a scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the most popular of the Star Trek films."
(end)
Here is the story of her appearence in the Star Trek movie,
as well as photographs of her:
www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/14344.html
"10.27.2005
Visions of Layla: Taking the Voyage Home
Star Trek is full of many weird and wonderful stories from actors and production crew about how they ended up working on the show or for the feature films. One of these stories is certainly unique ...
In 1986, a woman by the name of Layla Sarakalo was living in San Francisco above the historic Jack Kerouac-era Savoy Tivoli café on Grant Avenue. One day, early in the morning, she woke up to find her car had been towed courtesy of a film production. In cities where location work is done, it is common to see temporary No Parking signs put up to help facilitate the parking of production trucks required for the shoot. However, Layla never saw the signs or received a warning and was determined to take action. Something was happening here and she knew what it was; that something had to do with recovering the towing fee with a day's work as an extra on the film that towed her car!
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," as everyone in the known universe is aware, focused on our intrepid crew returning in time to the 1980s Bay Area in hopes of recovering two whales required by a mysterious probe back in the future. The San Francisco street scenes provided some of the film's most memorable and humorous moments. It also provided an avenue for Layla ...
After deciding what she would do, Layla changed into a suitable outfit, grabbed her whippet Anubis (her dog) and headed down the street to where the action was taking place. After speaking with the assistant director on whether she could get a day's work, she was told she could and was instructed to stand with the group of extras already hired for the day.
Layla said to the others that she had never engaged in this acting thing before and asked what she should do. They told her to act naturally. With the cameras rolling, Layla walked down the street into shot and soon came to the spot where Uhura and Chekov were unsuccessfully trying to find out from passing pedestrians where the nuclear wessels [sic] were. Most of the extras who were asked this question looked at the two like they were from another planet and carried on. Layla, however, answered them. Naturally.
The problem was, she wasn't supposed to say anything. But, because she did, the filmmakers decided that this was good, spontaneous stuff and that they should use it! A bit of rancor by fellow extras aside, Layla's star was now lit and hanging in the firmament.
After some retakes, they finally broke for lunch. When production personnel approached her, they asked if she was in the union (Screen Actors Guild). "No," she replied with a smile, "I'm in the neighborhood."
Am I Still Dreamin' Yet?
Fast forward eight months, and Layla is at the Bay Meadows racetrack south of San Francisco. When the man selling the Daily Racing Form sees her, he says he saw her in "Star Trek IV" last night and that she was great. A bit dumbfounded, Layla walked away. Later that day, someone else told her she was in "The Voyage Home." She had better go see the film, she thought, and find out what all
the hullabaloo was about. Layla went to the movie theater and, lo and behold, there she was on a 50-foot screen, talking with Uhura and Chekov!
She later discovered that she was related by marriage to one of the writers, Steve Meerson, who wrote the film with Peter Krikes. Turns out Layla had some of the only unscripted dialogue in the entire film. The weeks of promotion around the film also saw clips from the movie shown on various TV shows, such as Good Morning America, clips that featured Layla's scene no less. Her part remained relatively anonymous, however, until someone pointed out that the scene had been mentioned on the American Movie Channel (AMC), and she was described as the "mystery woman."
A time after "Star Trek IV," Layla found herself living in Paris running a small fashion house. Her part in Star Trek notwithstanding, she had remained unknown to fans all these years, until now. She's come out of hiding, has done at least one convention so far, and may be attending some others soon. Keep an eye out for her if you do, she's fun to talk to and she's guaranteed to give you something extra. Her honesty and candor is refreshing."
(end)
related thread for possible reference:
60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=CelebRepl&thread=1098605945&page=5
is the prime focus of that song?
