The Classic Beatles Song George Harrison Wrote for Eric Clapton
If you want to know how close George Harrison and Eric Clapton were, start with George’s first wife, Pattie Boyd. Harrison married Boyd, a model who’d appeared in the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night, in 1966. By all accounts, they stayed happily married for the rest of the decade.
But by the end of the ’60s, Clapton had fallen madly in love with Boyd. Maybe George didn’t notice it at first, because he asked Clapton to play the guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in 1968.
Later, he couldn’t help but notice. After George and Boyd split up in 1974, she began a relationship with Clapton and married him five years later. George remained friends with the two and attended their wedding. He’d even jokingly refer to himself as “the husband-in-law.”
Needless to say, the two had a friendship that was built to last. George even wrote a song for his pal that appeared on the Beatles’ White Album.
Source: cheatsheet.com
