
“At the end, nothing was said but the general feeling was that Eric had won. “George handed him a guitar and an amp - as an 18th-century gentleman might have handed his rival a sword - and for two hours, without a word, they dueled,” Boyd recalled. Clapton once showed up drunk at Harrison’s home and engaged the Beatles’ guitarist in a rock duel.

He turned to me and said: ‘Well, are you going with him or coming with me?'” She went home with Harrison. “George came over and demanded, ‘What’s going on?’ To my horror, Eric said, ‘I have to tell you, man, that I’m in love with your wife.’ I wanted to die. He was about to leave when he spotted me in the garden with Eric,” Boyd said. “ kept asking, ‘Where’s Pattie? But no one seemed to know.

Eric had asked me to come because he wanted me to listen to a new number he had written,” Boyd recalled. In 1970 Boyd was married to Harrison but became involved with Eric Clapton after hearing “Layla.” “We met secretly at a flat in South Kensington.Legendary rock muse Pattie Boyd, who inspired Eric Clapton “ Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” and, reputedly, George Harrison’s “Something,” is coming out with an autobiography, Wonderful Today, and doing interviews on her relationships with two of rock’s leading men.
