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Eric Clapton thought he'd help out George Harrison by promoting a Beatles album. Harrison was not happy with his friend's actions.
George Harrison and Eric Clapton had a friendship that survived some unbearably rocky periods. Clapton, for example, actively pursued Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, while they were still married. Before this, though, he infuriated Harrison with what he thought was helpful behavior. Here’s why his way of promoting a Beatles album didn’t go over well with the band.
In 1968, Clapton recorded a guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” a song Harrison wrote. Because of this, Harrison gave him an advance copy of The White Album. He took it upon himself to do a bit of promotion for the album.
“When I left the following month to go to America on Cream’s farewell tour, I took these [acetates] with me,” he wrote in Clapton: The Autobiography. “While I was in LA, I had been playing some of the songs on the album to various friends when I got a phone call from George.”
Source: cheatsheet.com/Emma McKee
