If anything could be less wonderful than marriage to George Harrison it was marriage to Eric

Anna Vaux

Marriage is hard; but marriage to a rock star is really hard. Everyone knows that – except perhaps the people who do it, like Pattie Boyd, who did it twice, first to George Harrison, whom she met on the set of Hard Day’s Night when she was working as a model; and then to Eric Clapton, whom she met through George. Harrison wrote the lovely song “Something” for her; Clapton wrote her the beautiful “Bell Bottom Blues” and that tacky anthem of longing, “Layla”. He also wrote her “Wonderful Tonight”, which Pattie finds painful to listen to but has adapted for the title of her memoir nevertheless, suggesting that if it wasn’t wonderful at the time she’s got over it now.
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