The article's full text could not be retrieved beyond its title and site navigation, so no substantive detail from the piece is available to summarise. Based on the headline alone, the piece appears to be about a song from 1954 that Eric Clapton reportedly regarded as too special or definitive to attempt his own version of, reputedly describing it as "the crown jewel" of its era or genre.

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