Wonderful Tonight

[...] While he waited for me he was in the sitting room, fiddling with his guitar. He went through phases in listening to music and at that time he liked a country singer called Don Williams. We talked about how beautifully simple his lyrics were, each song telling a story about every day happenings. Eric had been thinking of writing something similar and had already worked on some music for it. Suddenly, as I was flinging dresses on and off, inspiration struck. When I finally got downstairs and asked the inevitable question, "Do I look all right?" he played me what he'd written:

It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her makeup and brushes her long blonde hair.
And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight"

It was such a simple song but so beatuful and for years it tore at me. To have inspired Eric, and George before him, to write such music was so flattering. Yet I came to believe that although something about me might have made them put pen to paper, it was really all about them.

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Boyd, Patty and Junor, Penny, Wonderful Tonight, Eric, Hedline Review, UK 2008, pp. 196-197

Layla

[...]standing at the side of the stage night after night, amplifiers booming, lights up, music exploding in my head and vibrating through every part of me, was a n incredible sensation- deeply sexy. For the first time I undesstood what a high musicians get when they're in front of a stadium full of fans, adrenalin pumping. An looking out at the thousands of screaming, waving, swooning people who had come to see Eric, my Eric, and seeing their reaction every time he played the opening chords of the song he had written for me was mind blowing. They went mad. At the end when the band left the stage and everyone was calling for an encore, the audience would hold up candels or lighters, and watching twenty thousand flames sent shivers down my spine.

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Boyd, Pattie with Junor, Penny, Wonderfull Today, Eric, Hedline Review, UK, 2008, pp. 181-182