"They put it on hold so nobody else can record it. But he didn’t actually record it. That was when Don Henley said, ‘You need to quit giving your songs away’”: Sheryl Crow says that she once wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never saw the light of day

Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 held at Toyota Park on July 28, 2007 in Bridgeview, Illinois.

Songwriting can be a tough business. You might write a song you’re happy with and shop it around the industry, only to find that it never gets recorded by anyone but you can’t have it back for yourself.

Now it turns out that this is exactly happened to no lesser tunesmith than Sheryl Crow. Speaking to Esquire, she reveals that, before she became a recording artist herself, she pitched a song that ended up with Eric Clapton.