Susan Whitall: “Layla” writes her memoirs

Pattie Boyd, the woman every hardcore Beatle fan knows as the British model who married George Harrison, leaving him for Eric Clapton, is releasing a juicy autobiography. What was her connection to the film “Hard Day’s Night”? Was Pattie the cause of Clapton’s heroin addiction? Is she the woman Harrison was thinking about when he wrote the smash “Something”? Were there other affairs involving Beatle spouses? And why release the book now? Susan Whitall tells the tale along with sound bytes and music clips in the Detroit News. Here’s Claptons take from the Times of London