George Harrison & Patti Boyd on the set of "Hard Day's Night" 1964 George Harrison, MBE (February 24, 1943 - November 29, 2001), nicknamed "The Darkhorse", was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (born 17 March 1944 in Taunton, Somerset, England), supermodel and photographer, is best known as the wife of two famous rock musicians and the inspiration for several monumental rock love songs. After meeting on the set of A Hard Day's Night, Pattie married George Harrison on January 21, 1966, during the heyday of his group, The Beatles. Harrison's friend Eric Clapton, first of The Yardbirds, then of Cream, also fell in love with her. Pattie went on to divorce Harrison on June 9, 1977, and later marry Clapton on March 27, 1979. She and Clapton divorced in June 1988. Pattie was a successful model during the 1960s and early 1970s. She was known to frequent trendy clubs as well as the company of the era-defining designers Mary Quant and Ossie Clark. She also appeared several times in the covers of the best-known British magazines, including the UK and Italian editions of Vogue. Pattie was the inspiration for one of Harrison's most famous Beatles songs, "Something." 固opFoto