lonelysandwich:
George Harrison and Pattie Boyd, England, 1968
After meeting the Quiet One as a young model cast as a fan in A Hard Day’s Night, the two married. At some point, Eric Clapton met and fell unrequitedly in love with Pattie but could only satisfy his longing by shacking up with her 17-year-old sister Paula. Clapton wrote one of his best-known songs, Layla, about Pattie, causing the sister to get wise and dump him.
Years later, Pattie got fed up with George’s infidelity,* the last straw being an affair with Ringo’s wife, Maureen Stark, and Clapton finally got his Layla [insert something here about being gotten on his knees].
A tumultuous marriage led to Pattie’s alcoholism, which Clapton (naturally) documented in a song, The Shape You’re In. Chicks love it when musicians write songs about their dependencies. They divorced in ‘89.