To continue the George Harrison and Eric Clapton theme from last week, this is the beautiful lady who won the hearts of not only Beatle George Harrison but Eric Clapton as well and had four fabulous songs written for her. Apparently both John Lennon and Mick Jagger also fancied a bit too. You can see why, she's a bit of a stunner.
George wrote "I Need You" and "Something" and Eric wrote "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight". I'm sure you've heard of them!
The whole relationship surrounding these two, George and Eric, is pretty complicated and would make for one huge fabulous late 60's early 70's period drama (why no-one has bothered making something like this for TV I'll never know - I mean, just imagine the soundtrack!).
Now, legend has it, during one atmospheric evening at George's house and to quote Patti from her book:
"George handed him a guitar and an amp - as an 18th century gentleman might have handed his rival a sword - and for two hours, without a word, they duelled.
"At the end, nothing was said but the general feeling was that Eric had won. He hadn't allowed himself to get riled or go in for instrumental gymnastics as George had. Even when he was drunk, his guitar-playing was unbeatable."
How good?! I love reading about stuff like that.
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