Despite their strong friendship, guitarists played the same woman, Pattie Boyd, but she was already married to Beatle at the time
Two of the greatest guitarists of all time, Eric Clapton and George Harrison They were friends, musical partners, but also love rivals. This is Clapton’s great regret compared to Beatle.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they disputed the same woman, Pattie Boyd. The detail is that she was already married to Harrison since January 1966, so it was Clapton who sought trouble. And he admits that.
The guitarist of bands like Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos He acknowledges that he was wrong to have dragged wing on his wife’s wife, if not the greatest, at least in the musical field.
In a statement of 2014 to Dwell (via Far Out), he demonstrates all his remorse. Even cites the excerpt from a song of Bob Dylan, “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest”from the disk John Wesley Harding (1967).
“I have regrets, obviously. Numerous. One of the great regrets was to have involved me in the marriage of George Harrison. What is that fabulous song that Dylan plays? that she treats. “
George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd
Following the events, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd eventually broke up, not so fast, but in 1977. With the free path, Eric Clapton returned to the burden and managed to conquer his beloved. He and Pattie married in 1979 and remained together until 1989, when they also divorced.
One of his most famous songs, “Layla “recorded on the album Layla and other assorted love songs (1970), is based on love, hitherto platonic, of him by Pattie Boyd.
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Source: Rollingstone
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