What is "layla"

"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970). Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. Rita Coolidge, in her autobiography "Delta Lady" which was released in March 2016, claims she co-wrote the piano coda.

The song was inspired by a love story that originated as a poem The Story of Layla and Majnun in 5th-Century Iran, later was adopted by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he could not marry her. In his autobiography, Clapton states, "Ian Dallas told me the tale of Layla and Manjun [sic], a romantic Persian love story in which a young man, Manjun [sic], falls passionately in love with the beautiful Layla, but is forbidden by her father to marry her and goes crazy with desire." The song was further inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison of The Beatles.

"Layla" was unsuccessful on its initial release. The song has since experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second (without the piano coda) 20 years later as an acoustic Unplugged performance by Clapton. In 2004, "Layla" was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stones list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

Layla (Arabic: لیلى) is a town in central Saudi Arabia. It is the principal town of the Al-Aflaj oasis in Riyadh Region, some 330 km south of the capital, Riyadh. It is believed to have been named after Layla of Bani 'Amir, a 7th-century woman from the local tribe of Bani 'Amir who was immortalized in the poetry of her lover Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah. The romance of Qays and Layla is perhaps the most famous romance of Arabic literature, and was chronicled by Persian poet Nizami in Layla wal Majnun ("Layla and the Madman"). Several tribes have governed the town across two millennia, including tribes of Kaab ibn 'Amir, then 'Uqayl ibn 'Amir. The population of the town and its surrounding villages and hamlets is nearly 76,000, largely consisting of recently settled Bedouins from the Dawasir tribe. Layla neighbors a lake of the same name.

Category:Populated places in Riyadh Province

" Layla" is a song by Derek and the Dominos

Layla may also refer to:

• Layla or Leila (name), female given name
• Layla from Layla and Majnun, a famous Persian love story
• Layla (town), a town in Saudi Arabia
• Layla (video game), a side-scrolling action video game released for the Family Computer in 1986
• Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the 1970 Derek and the Dominos album on which the song "Layla" appears
• Layla (magazine), First Women's Magazine in Iraq.
• Layla Miller, a Marvel Comics character
• Layla Heartfilia, a character from Fairy Tail
• Layla (Winx Club)
• Layla (singer) − a Slovak soul and R&B singer
• Layla (Habibi song) 1981 Eurovision #7 song Halayla

is a side-scrolling action video game produced by dB-SOFT that was released in exclusively for the Family Computer (the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System).

Layla was a first women's magazine published in Baghdad, Iraq in 1923. It was published in the Arabic Language.