Theirs was the most extraordinary love triangle in rock history. George Harrison wrote the love song Something for his wife Pattie Boyd. Just a few weeks after Eric Clapton recorded a cover of “Little Wing,” his friend, the song’s author Jimi Hendrix, died at 27. So why Layla? Even with her participation in the film being quickly, George Harrison could not help noticing the beautiful model who looked … “Not because he’d gone but because he hadn’t taken me with him.” Clapton was in a world of despair, and for years it would get worse. It's from The Story of Layla and Majnun by 12th-century poet Nizami Ganjavi, about a man in love with a woman he couldn't have. —The London Sunday Times "There are so many wonderful stories in Pattie Boyd's life: Falling in love with a Beatle. "Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs, but life was far from glamorous. Eric Clapton performs at a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, December 12, 2012. “I went out in the garden and cried all day,” Clapton recalled. https://iwasdreamingofthepast.blogspot.com/2011/12/other-boyd-girl.html [8] [109] At the time, she was said to be looking forward to the idea of her book competing against Clapton's autobiography, which was published concurrently. … [109] Re-titled Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me for the US market, the book contains many of Boyd's photographs. Eric Clapton wrote Layla for her. Rock superstar Eric Clapton has admitted for the first time that he was so addicted to drugs and alcohol that he beat his first wife, Patti Boyd. In 1964, Pattie Boyd, a supermodel from the 60s, was selected to participate as an extra feature in The Beatles movie: A Hard Days Night. Pattie Boyd says that despite the heartache she caused Harrison by leaving him for close friend Eric Clapton – he sent them a note to let them know all was forgiven, according to … Holed up in her 17th-century cottage in the West Sussex countryside, Pattie Boyd, Clapton’s ex-wife and the woman he stole from Beatle George Harrison, is working feverishly on her autobiography. Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" was about Eric Clapton's love for Pattie Boyd, wife of his friend George Harrison of The Beatles. Clapton used Derek and the Dominos' lone studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, as a more than 77-minute declaration of love to Pattie Boyd … (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The music legend made it … https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-marries-pattie-boyd The ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton speaks out in this compelling autobiography."