Perhaps this explains why George Harrison was okay with Eric Clapton performing on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and stealing his first wife, Pattie Boyd, from him. George Harrison once said that looking at his longtime friend, Eric Clapton, was “like looking at myself.”
Most of the time, George Harrison regarded Eric Clapton as being on par with him.
Clapton adopted the moniker Lancelot in Martin Scorsese’s film George Harrison: Living in the Material World because, when he first met George and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, he was a lone wolf without any guidance. The couple resembled King Arthur and Guinevere in Beatledom at the same time. Clapton was envious of George’s Beatle family, but not because of George’s talent.
Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music.
Creative Director at McCartney Studios
Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times
Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik
President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc.
Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel
Lives in Playa del Rey
From Kassel, Germany
Married to Ruth McCartney
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