Layla is a song by Eric Clapton about his forbidden love for the wife of his close friend George Harrison. The song’s title comes from Majnun and Layla, an Arabic folktale based on the true story of a young bedouin poet called Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ. When Pattie Boyd decided to leave George Harrison for Clapton, the friendship between the two musicians wasn’t strained at all, and George never had hard feelings towards his friend Eric; if anything, he was happy about the real feelings him and Patricia had for each other and was present at their wedding in 1979.