Pattie Boyd: The Real Story Behind George Harrison, Eric Clapton & Layla

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and welcome to Vlogmas Day 5: Pattie Boyd: The Real Story Behind George Harrison, Eric Clapton & Layla

She was the girl in the crisps commercial who stepped onto a film set and walked straight into rock-and-roll mythology. The Vogue model, the Mary Quant bride, the quiet blonde who caught George Harrison’s eye on a London train and later became the woman Eric Clapton wrote his most desperate songs about.

“Something,” “Layla,” and “Wonderful Tonight” exist because Pattie Boyd walked into the lives of two men who turned love into music that would outlive them all.

Pattie was born in 1944 into a childhood built on instability and secrecy. Her father, an pilot, became withdrawn after a plane crash. Her mother moved the children between countries and then abruptly left Pattie behind in Kenya. When she finally returned to England, her father was gone and a strict, often cruel stepfather had taken his place. "Nothing was ever explained," she later wrote. She learned to stay quiet, adapt, and survive.

At seventeen she escaped into London, working at Elizabeth Arden until a magazine client suggested modeling. Within a few years, despite harsh early rejection and extreme pressure to stay thin, she became one of the familiar faces of Swinging London.

A tiny role in "A Hard Day’s Night" led her onto the train carriage where she met the Beatles. George was shy and observant. They married in January 1966 and tried to build a private life at Kinfauns, their bungalow in Esher. For a while, there was real peace. But Beatlemania, drugs, meditation, failed attempts to have children, and George’s affairs slowly pulled their marriage apart. In their kitchen he played her "Something" for the first time. It would become one of the greatest love songs ever written, just as their relationship was beginning to fracture.

Eric Clapton fell in love with Pattie while still close to George. He sent anonymous letters, called her "Layla," and finally played her the song itself. Still, she stayed with George until betrayal made staying impossible. She left him in 1974.

With Eric, the intensity turned darker. Alcohol, cocaine, touring, and years of fertility treatments followed. "Wonderful Tonight" was written in a rare quiet moment, but addiction and violence soon dominated their life. When Eric told her he was having a child with another woman after she had tried for decades to conceive, Pattie finally left for good.

Starting over in her forties, Pattie had to learn how to live independently for the first time. She was frightened, unsteady, unsure who she was without the machinery of famous men around her. One day, in a low moment, she said to her friend Amanda Lear, "I used to be Pattie Boyd." Amanda looked at her and replied, simply, "You still are."

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