I remember telling her, “Look, you look wonderful, okay? Please don’t change again. Eventually I got fed up and went upstairs to the bedroom where she was still deciding what to wear. I was downstairs, waiting, playing the guitar to kill time. We had a busy social life at that time, and Nell was invariably late getting ready.
I wrote the words for this song one night at Hurtwood while I was waiting for Nell to get dressed to go out to dinner. Very homespun and mostly acoustic, it was in just this spirit that the song ‘Wonderful Tonight’ was written. “What it was about, for me, was drinking and escaping my responsibilities as a bandleader, so I could just hang out and play for sheer enjoyment, and the music reflected this. In his memoir entitled Clapton, Eric gives us the context of the song’s composition: It was written for his then girlfriend and future wife, Pattie Boyd. In my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful songs of all time, both lyrically and musically, is Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight. ← Eric and Pattie ( circa long time ago).
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