Wonderful Tonight can be found on Eric Clapton’s album “Slowhand”, track (2). Clapton watched his wife to be getting ready for the night, so in love with her and wrote the song. They had a wonderful evening planned out, going to a Buddy Holly appreciation event that Beatle Paul McCartney had arranged. There is quite a bit of talk that Patty was not interested in Eric Clapton in the beginning and it has even been stated that she only began with him for reasons that he threatened to take his own life overdosing with heroin should she stay married to George Harrison!Įric Clapton wrote the epic song “Wonderful Tonight” for Patty Boyd in (1977) while they were still in their dating stage while Patty was getting dressed and ready for a night on the town with Eric. George Harrison and Patty Boyd divorced in (1974) and she became Clapton’s wife in (1979). It was love at first site for Eric Clapton, not to mention that in that particular moment in time, Patty had thoughts of her own, of a cheating George … (but that’s another story). It was the year (1969) George Harrison (Guitarist for the Beatles) and Clapton were quite wonderful friends, both being in the music biz and all… George introduced Eric to Patty Boyd, which at the time, Clapton hadn’t any idea (so the story goes) that Patty was indeed Harrison’s wife. The song was a Billboard Top 20 hit for Clapton in 1978.Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” is one of the most sought after romantic love songs for weddings, anniversaries as well as marriage proposals through time itself, but what is it about this song? There is an amazing back-story, history as to how this icon of a song came to be. He said, "Every now and then you fall in love again, albeit with the same woman, just for one night for some reason, something she's said or the way she's approached the situation, and Bang! - you're in love again, and it's such a strong feeling you can't do anything else but write it down." The song has become a favorite at weddings and other romantic occasions, which pleases Clapton. I wrote it because my (future) wife was late getting ready to go out. I didn't write it in a particular good mood.
Can we go now?" Eventually, he got sick of this and picked up a guitar, just to keep himself occupied, and composed "Wonderful Tonight." Clapton told Rolling Stone, "'Wonderful Tonight' has a little bit of irony in it. She kept coming downstairs wearing something new, and Clapton kept saying, "You look wonderful. They were running very late, and yet Pattie was insisting on trying on virtually every dress in her wardrobe.
This gentle love song was written for Eric Clapton's future wife Pattie, whom he wooed away from George Harrison.Ĭlapton says he wrote the song while waiting for Pattie to get dressed for a night out. Recorded: May 1977 at Olympic Studios, London, England
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