Jenny was the younger sister of Pattie Boyd, muse and wife to Clapton, to George Harrison before him and no stranger to drug and booze-fuelled partying.
Stevie Nicks famously dated her bandmate Lindsey Buckingham for years, but he wasn’t the only Fleetwood Mac member the “Gypsy” singer had a romance with. Drummer and founding member Mick Fleetwood had an affair with Nicks while he was married to Jenny Boyd.
“One night we had a party and everybody was drunk and everybody was gone and it was just me and Mick, and we ended up spending the night together,” Nicks told Q Magazine. “And I fell in love with Mick and I think Mick fell in love with me.”
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The illicit romance began when Fleetwood Mac was finishing the Rumours tour (in 1977) in Australia. But Nicks said it didn’t take long for them to come to their senses. “Mick and I … talked about what a dumb-a** thing it was that we had done and that, basically, we were not going to break up Fleetwood Mac,” she said.
“And we got on the plane, held hands all the way back to Los Angeles, and realized, when we got off that plane, that for all practical purposes it was over. It had its month of glory, which was fantastic and very romantic, and then when we got back to LA it was not romantic any more, it was horrifying. It should never have happened.” (source)
Jenny Boyd, who was married to Mick Fleetwood from 1970-1976, opened up about in her book 'Jennifer Juniper ( Which is the title of a Donovan song) : A Journey Beyond the Muse.' Jenny is the sister of Pattie Boyd, who was married to Eric Clapton and The Beatles’ George Harrison.
“‘There’s something I ought to tell you,’” Mick told her during a frank discussion about their relationship (via Cosmic Magazine). “‘I’ve been having an affair with Stevie for the last few months, since we were in Australia.’”
“At first I didn’t understand what he’d said,” Boyd wrote. “It took some seconds for it to sink in. I stared at him in silence, feeling as though I’d been kicked in the stomach; my mind and heart in complete turmoil as I struggled to make sense of his words.”
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She recalled Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Rolling Stone cover shoot, posing the band members in bed together. Nicks and Fleetwood were curled up next to each other with big smiles on their faces, front and center of the image. They have both since confirmed that the photoshoot planted the seeds of their romance.
“She had finally got her hands on him, I thought bitterly,” Boyd wrote. “And I had never suspected.”
Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks quickly ended their affair, never taking their romance any further. They remained good friends, and the drummer described his “devotion” to Nicks in his 2014 book, Play On.
Meanwhile Pattie kept a record of the wild years – portraits and reportage style snaps taken with a Polaroid and, later, on a Hasselblad.
"I took endless photos," she says. "It was something to do, otherwise you could feel a bit spare."
The museum hosting the show—"George, Eric, and Me," opening to the public on May 6th, is Liverpool's aptly-named The Beatles Story. From the selection of images released in advance of the opening, it's plain to see that Ms. Boyd was an integral part of their stellar run, and much else besides.
In a particular part of Pattie Boyd’s book she writes: “When, years later, I and Eric got married, and George and his new wife, Olivia, came to the wedding party, Paul cames, Ringo did but John couldn’t go. He said later that he would have loved to come. That night there was a huge jam session, and had he been there it would have been the last time the Beatles played together.”
Boyd has spoken about a new documentary film about Clapton, which reveals details of her relationships with the two rock rivals.
Despite she and Clapton having no relationship today, she did participate in the upcoming officially sanctioned Showtime documentary, Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars, which she described as “a brutally honest portrayal of someone in pain.”
