Layla in Real Life: 10 Songs Written About Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd was working as a model and actress in the early 1960s when she was cast as a schoolgirl in Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night (1964). Though she had just a single word of dialogue—”Prisoners?“—it was the role that changed her life, as it was on the set of that classic Beatles movie that she met George Harrison, and began a journey that would lead to her becoming one of the most important muses in rock and roll history.
Harrison and Boyd married two years later, but the beloved Beatle wasn’t the only iconic rock star who was vying for Boyd’s attention, and putting pen to paper to craft songs about her. Guitar deity Eric Clapton, one of Harrison’s best friends, also fell madly in love with Boyd, and wrote much of Derek and the Dominos’ 1970 album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, about Boyd and his forbidden love.
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