Eric Clapton's song Layla was supposed to win back his love, but it delivered a place in rock 'n' roll ...
It was midsummer 1970 in Florida. Eric Clapton looked out over the blue water knowing his life was at yet another crucial crossroad.
"I was standing there wondering which way to go and was paralysed with fear about making a decision," he would later recount.
"It seemed there were all these choices, musically and emotionally."
Fed up with stardom, he'd dismantled his supergroup Blind Faith and fled Britain with a drug habit, a broken heart and a crazy plan to make an album that would win back a lost love.
A man with black hair poses close to a women with blonde hair in a black and white photograph
Pattie Boyd and George Harrison photographed in 1966, shortly before their wedding.(By Robert Freeman)
The woman in question was Pattie Boyd. She was the wife of one of Clapton's closest friends: former Beatle George Harrison.
Neglected and betrayed by her own husband, Pattie had grown close to Clapton, but in the end she could not bring herself to run away with him.
Source: abc.net.au
