So, Harrison's presence at his buddy's wedding made its own offbeat sense. I couldn’t believe how friendly he and Eric were towards each other." "He had some wine and Christmas pudding with us. "The first Christmas after I’d left him, in 1974, just as Eric and I were sitting down to lunch, George burst in, uninvited," Boyd says in her autobiography. Yet the improbable friendship between Clapton and Harrison – dating back to before their 1968 studio collaboration on the Beatles' " While My Guitar Gently Weeps" – continued unabated. I could resist no longer."īy 1989, Clapton and Boyd were divorced. "With the realization that I had inspired such passion and creativity," Boyd said in 2007, "the song got the better of me. By the turn of the '70s, however, Clapton had fallen hopelessly in love with Boyd, sparking a torrent of emotions through his signature song on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Their marriage bridged Harrison's stint with the Beatles and the beginning of his solo career. Also there on an outdoor stage at Clapton's English estate (in the same garden, by the way, where Harrison wrote " Here Comes the Sun") was the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman, Elton John, David Bowie, members of Clapton's band Cream and Denny Laine, from McCartney's '70s-era band Wings.īoyd, an ex-model who'd appeared on the cover of Vogue, was married to Harrison from 1966-77 – having met him at age 19 during the filming of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night.
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