As backstories go it’s up there with the best: mercurially-gifted superstar guitarist with a passion for the blues falls hopelessly in love with the wife of his best friend, an ex-Beatle, then writes a song about her that goes on to become one of the greatest songs ever written. What’s more, it contains one of the killer guitar riffs of all time.
The song was Layla, the guitarist was Eric Clapton and he wrote it about his unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, wife of George Harrison.
