It all started because Eric Clapton wanted a permanent spot at the bar. He liked his perch in the groovy Hard Rock Cafe in Mayfair, but found best pal George Harrison often sauntered to his favourite leaning point first.
(It probably added salt to the wound that Beatle George also got to marry Pattie Boyd first before Clapton.)
The first Hard Rock Cafe, co-founded in the West End of London in 1971 by US businessman Isaac Tigrett, didn’t have bar stools at the time.
