Lot Essay
In her autobiography Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me, Pattie Boyd recalls the moment she made the decision to leave George Harrison and join Eric Clapton on tour: On July 3 [1974], I told George I was leaving him: It was late at night and I went into the studio and told him we were leading a ludicrous and hateful life, and I was going to Los Angeles to stay with [my sister] Jenny and Mick [Fleetwood]. When he came to bed, I could feel his sadness as he lay beside me. “Don’t go,” he said. Half of me wanted to stay, and to believe him when he said he would make it better, but I was at the end of my tether... The next day, with a great sadness in my heart, I packed some things, said a tearful goodbye to Friar Park and our two Siamese cats, then flew to America. A week later Eric phoned and asked me to join him on tour. Eight days later I met him in Boston and he played the Boston Garden that night. By the end of the week I was writing, “At last I can feel the lost woman in me.” If only that could have remained true. Pattie joined Eric in Boston on 12 July 1974. This note was likely written only a couple of weeks later, when Eric played the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta on 1 August 1974.