Actually this song is more than about how he was in love with George's wife...Eric changed the name to Layla because of an old arabic story which seemed to mimic the story of his love for Pattie. The tale goes that when a man "Majnun" saw Layla for the first time, he fell desperately in love with her. However, Layla's father refused to allow him to marry her. Soon after she married a different man, and a while after she died. This drove him mad. He wandered the desert writing verse and poems about her. It was said that he would fall upon his knees (you got me on my knees Layla) and scream "LAYLA" into the wind. It is still said that you can hear the tortured cries on the winds in Saudi Arabia...and this is a true story by the way. His poems were all collected and stored and he was the founder of many arabic romantic poems. Seems to me Eric and Manjun had a lot in common, except Eric got the girl in the end.
Actually this song is more than about how he was in love with George's wife...Eric changed the name to Layla because of an old arabic story which seemed to mimic the story of his love for Pattie. The tale goes that when a man "Majnun" saw Layla for the first time, he fell desperately in love with her. However, Layla's father refused to allow him to marry her. Soon after she married a different man, and a while after she died. This drove him mad. He wandered the desert writing verse and poems about her. It was said that he would fall upon his knees (you got me on my knees Layla) and scream "LAYLA" into the wind. It is still said that you can hear the tortured cries on the winds in Saudi Arabia...and this is a true story by the way. His poems were all collected and stored and he was the founder of many arabic romantic poems. Seems to me Eric and Manjun had a lot in common, except Eric got the girl in the end.