Pattie Boyd

Wikipedia lists at least eight songs that it says were inspired by Pattie Boyd, including I Need You, If I Needed Someone, Something, For You Blue (all by George Harrison), Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, and Wonderful Tonight (by Clapton). This article on mentalfloss.com (cited by Wikipedia) describes Boyd as "one of the most important muses in rock and roll history", and goes on to list ten songs she is said to have inspired. This list doesn't include all of the songs named on Wikipedia, but it does add two that were written by Ronnie Wood – when he was still nominally a member of the Faces, and before he joined the Rolling Stones.

Pattie Boyd met George Harrison in 1964, and they were together through the height of the Beatles' popularity. She shared his interest in Eastern mysticism, yoga and vegetarianism, and was with him on his visits to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They married in 1966; the problems in the marriage appear to date from 1970, around the time of the Beatles' break–up.

Eric Clapton is said to have fallen in love with Pattie Boyd at some point in the late 1960s. When she rejected his advances, he descended into alcoholism and heroin addiction. She is said to have had an affair with Wood in 1973. In 1974, by which time Clapton was 'clean', Boyd agreed to leave Harrison, blaming his repeated infidelities – the final straw being his affair with Ringo Starr's wife Maureen.

Harrison and Boyd were finally divorced in 1977, and she married Clapton in 1979. Both partners struggled in the marriage, and they divorced in 1989. Boyd later came to suspect that Clapton's pursuit of her when she was married to Harrison was really just a manifestation of the competitive element in the friendship between the two musicians, and that "Eric just wanted what George had."

In 1991 she met property developer Rod Weston, and they married in 2015. Weston was quoted as saying, "It's almost our silver anniversary, so we thought we'd better get on with it."