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Article: Pattie Boyd Recalls Life With Rock Stars
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- October 13, 2007
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LONDON - Pattie Boyd is the A-list musicians' muse. A convent schoolgirl turned swinging London fashion model, Boyd was married to Beatle George Harrison, then to guitar god Eric Clapton - and the relationships live on in song.
For Boyd, Harrison wrote "Something," one of the Fab Four's most-covered tunes. Clapton's passion for his friend's wife inspired the scorching "Layla." Later, when Boyd had left Harrison and married Clapton, he serenaded her with "Wonderful Tonight."
Even now, 63-year-old Boyd says, "there is still a shiver of thrill" when she hears the songs.
"I'm so familiar with them, they've become intimate. They've become a part of me. So when I hear them it's a part of my ...