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| | Mark Steyn: The eye doctor never saw it coming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | It is one of rock music's definitive love songs, featuring an unmistakable guitar figure, played by Clapton and Duane Allman, as lead-in. |
 | | 'The song was inspired by a Persian love story, The Story of Layla/Leily and Majnoun, by Nezami. |
 | | Nezami's tale, about a moon-princess who was married off by her father to someone other than the man who was desperately in love with her, resulting in his madness (in Arabic, Majnoun means "madman"), struck a deep chord with Clapton. |
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