"Layla" is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December 1970. It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs, Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "blank">Song Review". Retrieved on June 22, 2005. 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.

Inspired by Clapton's then-unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison, "Layla" was unsuccessful on its initial release. Paul Gambaccini et al. blank">Derek and the Dominoes (sic) - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Accessed on July 6, _2005. The song has since experienced great critical and popular acclaim. Two versions have achieved chart success, first in 1972 and again twenty years later.

Layla and Majnun, also known as The madman of Layla - in Arabic مجنون ليلى (Majnun layla) or قيس وليلى (Qays and Layla), in (Leyli and Madjnun) and Leyla ile Mecnun (Layla with Majnun) in Turkish - is a classical Middle Eastern love story. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Arabic : قيس بن الملوح ) from the northern Arabian Peninsula, in the Umayyad era during the 7th century. There were two Arabic versions of the story at the time. In one version, he spent his youth together with his cousin, Layla, tending their flocks. In the other version, upon seeing Layla he fell passionately in love with her. In both versions, however, he went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means "Driven mad by Layla". To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic Arabic poems, considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school.