In 1974 she told Harrison she was leaving him. The final straw for Boyd was Harrison's affair with Ringo Starr's wife Maureen. "And I said, 'Oh, gosh, this is unbelievable!' And he said, he was just looking at me and saying, 'This is for you, I've written it for you.'" "He said, 'I've got something for you to hear,' and he put it on in a cassette machine and played it," Boyd said. She remembered hearing the song for the first time.
Amid the turmoil, Boyd received a declaration of love from her husband's good friend Eric Clapton.Ĭlapton wrote the song "Layla," pouring out his feelings for his unrequited love. It was wonderful."īy the time that song was composed in 1968, however, the couple's marriage was falling apart. "And I didn't realize until after he'd recorded it and he told me that he'd written it for me. "I remember him playing this melody quite a lot, and then some time later, he wrote lyrics for it," Boyd said.
Harrison and Boyd shared a passionate and stormy marriage for 11 years, a relationship that inspired what many consider one of the greatest love songs ever, "Something."
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