Eric Clapton 'Scared the Living Daylights' Out of George Harrison's Wife Pattie Boyd While
Eric Clapton wrote an album for Pattie Boyd while she was married to George Harrison. Here's how she reacted when she listened to it.
As George Harrison’s marriage to Pattie Boyd grew chillier, Eric Clapton’s feelings for her heated up. Harrison and Clapton were friends, but this did little to stop Clapton from pursuing his wife. While she was still with Harrison, Clapton wrote an album about her, and then invited her over to listen to it. He later admitted that this was not one of his best ideas.
Eric Clapton said his method of pursuing Pattie Boyd didn’t go over well
After Clapton and Harrison became friends, the former began to develop feelings for Boyd. The way he felt for her flamed into what he described as obsession, and he wrote the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs about her. He hoped that when she heard it, she would admit to feeling the same way about him.
“I had convinced myself that when she heard the completed Layla album, with all its references to our situation, she would be so overcome by my cry of love that she would finally leave George and come away with me for good,” he wrote in Clapton: The Autobiography. “So I called her up one afternoon and asked her if she’d like to have tea and listen to the new record.
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