{"id":29130,"date":"2024-03-27T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-27-1979-eric-clapton-marries-george-harrisons-ex-pattie-boyd\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:05:19","slug":"on-this-day-march-27-1979-eric-clapton-marries-george-harrisons-ex-pattie-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-27-1979-eric-clapton-marries-george-harrisons-ex-pattie-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 27, 1979: Eric Clapton marries George Harrison\u2019s ex Pattie Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-27\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, March 27, 1979\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> married <strong>Pattie Boyd<\/strong>, ex-wife of his good friend, <strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Beatle<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>, in Tucson, Arizona.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two\u00a0met while Clapton and Harrison were writing music together in the late \u201860s and Clapton fell in love with Boyd. Songs on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Derek and the Dominos<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, including the iconic track <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Layla<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, were inspired by his love for Boyd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Boyd eventually left Harrison in 1974, and she and Clapton\u00a0subsequently married, all the while remaining good friends with Harrison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Clapton and Boyd\u2019s relationship had problems. The rocker was an alcoholic during their time together and he even admitted to abusing her and being unfaithful. Boyd left him in 1987, and they were divorced in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this month, Boyd auctioned off several personal items, including love letters written to her by Clapton. She made over $3.6 million from the auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 27, 1979\u2026 Eric Clapton married Pattie Boyd, ex-wife of his good friend, The\u00a0Beatle&#8216;s George Harrison, in Tucson, Arizona.\u00a0 The two\u00a0met while Clapton and Harrison were writing music together in the late \u201860s and Clapton fell in love with Boyd. Songs on the Derek and the Dominos<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-27-1979-eric-clapton-marries-george-harrisons-ex-pattie-boyd\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}