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Eric Clapton: George Harrison
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Elton John, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Sting and others perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London to benefit victims of the volcanic eruption in July on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Former site of one of George Martin's AIR Studios.
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Clapton has lived in immoral relationships with girlfriends; and in 1970, he wrote a love song entitled "Layla" for the wife of another manGeorge Harrison of the Beatles. Clapton eventually won Pattie Harrison's heart; she divorced George in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979. Before that they lived together. George Harrison must have had no hard feelings, because he agreed to perform (with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) at Eric and Patti's wedding reception. Clapton and Pattie were only together for a few years. In 1985, they separated, and in 1986, Clapton's girlfriend, Lori Del Santo, gave birth out of wedlock to a boy child they named Conor.
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Clapton played a refinished red Les Paul on the Beatles' studio recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", then gave the guitar to George Harrison. His SG found its way into the hands of George Harrison's friend Jackie Lomax, who subsequently sold it to musician Todd Rundgren for US$500 in 1972. Rundgren restored the guitar and nicknamed it "Sunny," after "Sunshine of Your Love." He retained it until 2000, when he sold it at an auction for US$150,000.[56]
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In 1969, Clapton fell in love with Pattie Boyd, the wife of one of his best friends, Beatles' George Harrison. At about the same time, one of Clapton's friends gave him a copy of "The Story of Layla and Majnun" as written by Azerbaijani poet Nizami. The book moved Clapton profoundly as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he couldn't marry her. Clapton saw the correlation with his own life.
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Despite his success, Clapton's personal life was in a mess by 1972. In addition to his (temporarily) unrequited and intense romantic longing for Pattie Boyd-Harrison, he withdrew from recording and touring and became addicted to heroin, resulting in a career hiatus interrupted only by the Concert for Bangladesh and the 'Rainbow Concert' in 1973 (see 1973 in music), organized by The Who's Pete Townshend to help Clapton kick the drug.
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