Pete Townshend Helped Eric Clapton Woo George Harrison's First Wife Pattie Boyd

The Who’s Pete Townshend allegedly helped Eric Clapton romance George Harrison‘s first wife, Pattie Boyd. George and Boyd married in 1966, but Clapton fell in love with her shortly after. He needed Townshend to distract the former Beatle so he could sweep Boyd off her feet.

In 1964, George met actor and model Pattie Boyd on the set of The Beatles’ first feature film, A Hard Day’s Night. That first day they met, George asked Boyd to marry him. She declined but agreed to a date. They married in 1966. However, their marriage started to crack in 1970, when George discovered that Clapton loved Boyd.

Clapton met Boyd in London and played her a song he wrote for her. It was called “Layla.”

“We met secretly at a flat in South Kensington,” Boyd said (per New York Post). “Eric had asked me to come because he wanted me to listen to a new number he had written. He switched on the tape machine, turned up the volume and played me the most powerful, moving song I had ever heard. It was ‘Layla.'”

Source: cheatsheet.com

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