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Polyphonic takes on the behind the scenes story of this rock masterpiece and rewinds several centuries to the source of Layla's name.

Layla

1970 song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon

This article is about the 1970 song. For the album on which it appears, see Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. For the 2022 song, see Layla (DJ Robin & Schürze song).

For other uses, see Layla (disambiguation).

"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally recorded with their band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970).

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Born March 30th, 1945 in Surrey, England, Eric Clapton became interested in the blues at a young age and learned to play guitar as a teen.

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Its contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. The piano part has also been controversially credited to Rita Coolidge, Gordon's girlfriend at the time.

The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Persian literature and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi,^[1] a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton.

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