Born in Somerset, England on March 17, 1944, Pattie Boyd moved to London in 1962. Her modeling career took her to New York and Paris. Boyd could tell early on that Clapton was interested in her. A few years later the Harrisons were to face danger themselves at the hands of a stranger. Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton moved in together and married in 1979. '", Interviews with Phil Spector, who produced Harrison's first solo work, and with Sir George Martin reveal Harrison's central concern with music. "There is this incredible reward because you have lived through more and you have let go of something. Her father, Zeke, was a dry cleaner, and her mother, Mary Louise, worked as a seamstress. And in 1969, Boyd and Harrison were arrested for marijuana possession after a police raid. Arias was born in Los Angeles. George Harrison kisses his wife, Patti Boyd, on June 22, 1966. Pattie Boyd was the real-life “Layla,” who married George Harrison and became the romantic obsession of his close friend, Eric Clapton. Among the pioneers who helped to popularise world music, few have done more or had more kudos than Dump the boyfriend immediately,” Boyd recalled a friend saying to her. George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr went to the wedding party.. Clapton adds: "To be honest there was a lot of swapping and fooling around.". Then read about the Beatles in 1957. There are women who marry rock stars, and then there’s the woman who married two. Clapton wrote Layla about her. Boyd split from Harrison in 1974, which is when Pattie started dating Eric Clapton. He would spend hours alone chanting and meditating. Harrison was furious, telling Boyd in a bout of anger to just go off with Clapton. It was her first marriage to a non-musician – Rod Weston, a former property developer. She had a single, one-word line. George Harrison with his first wife, model Pattie Boyd, on 22 January 1966, the day after the couple had married. You know Pattie Boyd from Eric Clapton’s lyrics “Layla, you got me on my knees,” and George Harrison’s “Something in the way she moves.” She was an inspiration to both artists; they were madly in love with her, which was a problem since she was already married to Harrison. If you enjoyed reading about Pattie Boyd, you may also like these surprising stories behind 5 of your favorite Beatles songs. In an interview with the U.K.'s Daily Mail, Louise Harrison claims that pension ended after her brother died.Now 82, Harrison still works to support herself. Pattie Boyd with George Harrison 1966, and Eric Clapton on guitar 1975. surprising stories behind 5 of your favorite Beatles songs. Except for the fact that their relationship was also riddled with infidelities and turmoil: alleged affairs on both sides, Clapton’s increasingly alcoholic tendencies, and finally a baby by another woman resulted in a separation in 1987 and a divorce in 1989. Olivia Harrison, who produced the film with Scorsese and allowed unprecedented access to the family archive, talks candidly about her late husband's "challenging" attitude to other women and about the stranger who broke into the couple's home and nearly ended Harrison's life shortly after he had recovered from the first bout of the cancer that would eventually kill him. ", George Harrison: Living in the Material World is released on Blu-Ray and DVD on 10 October and will be broadcast by the BBC later in the year, Recollections by surviving Beatles and second wife Olivia cast new light on the emotional intensity that drove his music, George Harrison with his first wife, model Pattie Boyd, on 22 January 1966, the day after the couple had married. Thus began the ultimate rock and roll love triangle. Through all these things that came between us.". George was a known ladies man. Scorsese, who has focused his camera in recent years on musical subjects, from his history of the blues to a concert film of the Rolling Stones and an acclaimed study of Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, now sheds light on the self-confessed "dark horse" Harrison. George wasn't unhappy that she left, because Clapton and Patti both sing Bye Bye Love on Harrison's sole album Dark Horse. Clapton talks about the Camelot-like world of the Beatles and of feeling like he was an envious Lancelot. As for Boyd, she married a third time in 2015. In 1977, the divorce was finalized and in ’79 she married Clapton. Olivia Trinidad Arias was born on May 18, 1948 in Mexico City. She reveals that, although she and Harrison "seemed like partners from the very beginning" and shared a strong interest in meditation, their marriage survived a series of "hiccups". Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images Vanessa Thorpe and Ben Dowell Personally, I haven’t heard much of this about Olivia. A more notable result of her marrying George Harrison? Days after the horrifying news that Keleher had broken into their home- the couple was almost stabbed to death. It went beyond that.". ", Endurance was the key to the second, long-lasting Harrison marriage, according to his widow. "[George] thought that, after everything that had happened to him, 'I am going to be murdered in my own home. In A Hard Day’s Night Boyd played the part of a schoolgirl whose only line was “Prisoners.” Small a role as it may have been, it was enough to get George Harrison to notice her. The three Beatles wives became friends and even went on holidays together. It was Harrison and the Beatles who introduced the formerly innocent Boyd to LSD as well. Arias's siblings include Peter and Louise. He was the first Beatle to release a solo album, with a little help from Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and … Her grandparents migrated to California, having grown up in Guanajuato in central Mexico. Harrison's widow says that his most important relationships were conducted through music and recounts that some of the lyrics to the song I'd Have You Anytime, written with Bob Dylan, were addressed to Dylan himself, whom Harrison felt had retreated from their friendship. ", Paul McCartney also speaks about his old friend's appreciation of women: "I don't want to say much, because he was a pal, but he liked the things that men like. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images. Flickr/Wikimedia CommonsPattie Boyd with George Harrison 1966, and Eric Clapton on guitar 1975. She found work at a beauty salon but was quickly inspired to pursue modeling. Beatles guitarist and singer George Harrison with his wife, Patti Boyd. Harrison’s first wife, Pattie Boyd, de­scribed him veering between periods of in­tense meditation and heavy partying, ... and after a long fight, George Harrison died on November 29th, 2001. Three years later, they moved to California.She was educated in that same place and later graduated from Hawthorne High School. FEBRUARY 8, 1966 George and Pattie Harrison flew to Barbados; March 12, 1969 - George Harrison and his wife Pattie… February 28, 1972 – George and Pattie Harrison were… The Last Photos of John Lennon and George Harrison Together ←