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Intimate details of the emotionally fraught love triangle between George Harrison, his first wife Pattie Boyd and her lover Eric Clapton are revealed today for the first time.  

For more than 35 years Pattie has refused to talk about the affair with Clapton which ripped apart her marriage and inspired him to write Layla - about a man who falls hopelessly in love with a woman who loves him but is unavailable.

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Now, in her new book, Wonderful Today, which is serialised in today’s Review, she finally describes how after years of mutual anguish which pushed Clapton to the brink of a drug-induced breakdown, she eventually left Harrison to marry Clapton.

She tells how her affair with the guitarist started in 1970 after he played Layla to her for the first time, six years after she started seeing Harrison.

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She said: “We met secretly at a flat in South Kensington. Eric had asked me to come because he wanted me to listen to a new number he had written. He switched on the tape machine, turned up the volume and played me the most powerful, moving song I had ever heard. It was Layla.

“He played it to me two or three times, all the while watching my face intently for my reaction. My first thought was, “Oh God, everyone’s going to know this is about me”.

Fuente: dailymail.co.uk