She barely rates a mention in Harrison's autobiography I Me Mine

Interestingly, she had a fling with Ronnie Wood after Eric but he didn't write anything about her *, Left Harrison and took up with Clapton, they married in '79 but Paula so he could be close to Mrs Harrison – who broke up with himĪround the time of this song - on which he joking includes Pattie and Eric in the band credits - Pattie

He had fallen for Pattie, Clapton had been with her younger sister

Stepped in, did me a favour, I threw them both out”.Įspecially because it was a four-side triangle: for a few years since We had good rhythm and a little slide, then she Our lady with “a you-know who”, I hope she's happy and “oldĬlapper too”. Harrison's very patchy Dark Horse album (which also included So Sad Is humorously resentful – but more likely because it appeared on Mentioned in the George-Pattie-Eric love triangle, perhaps because it Yours, and the urgent Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?Įverly Brothers' classic Bye Bye Love is one which rarely gets I Looked Away the versions of Have You Ever Loved a Woman? and I Am Songs – recorded in Miami and which appeared under the name DerekĪnd the Dominos in '71 – included a number of songs about hisįraught and long-distance love for Pattie: Bellbottom Blues (“it'sĪll wrong, but it's alright” and “I don't want to fade away”) Grappling with the early throes of heroin addiction and the emotional My knees, I'm beggin' darling, please”) Clapton poured his fraughtĮmotions - the unavailable wife of his best friend – while Her was the agonised Layla, written when he had fallen for her while Pity on Harrison's solo album All Things Must Pass, which included Clapton on the sessions.įriend – who she later took up with, then married. Need You in Help! and then, when they were breaking up, Isn't It A Moves”) about her, a song which Frank Sinatra mistakenly describedĪs his “favourite Lennon-McCartney love song”. Of their happiness, Harrison wrote Something (“in the way she Set of the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night in 1964 and at the peak She inspired a remarkable number of songs from her two husbands, In pop culture – she was only a model for a few years – because And it's a belated happy birthday to the formerīritish model Pattie Boyd who turned 74 on March 17.

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