Some color Polaroid photographs of Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd on holiday at Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate Goldeneye, circa 1980. The shots include Eric and Pattie posing against the louvred shutters, Eric hiding in a tree, and Eric joking with the locals...
In her autobiography, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me, Pattie Boyd recalls a trip to Goldeneye in the mid-1970s: “Eric needed a holiday so we went to Montego Bay in Jamaica to stay in a house called Goldeneye, which had belonged to Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond novels. It had just been bought by Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records. Subsequently he turned it into a luxury resort, but when we were there the house was full of original 1940s furniture in mint condition, and had its own beach. We had the most glorious time except... every morning the gardener would arrive with the biggest, fattest joint for Eric, then take him to the ‘tea shop.’ In fact, it sold rum, and they would spend the day smoking dope and drinking. Eric would come back in the evening and pass out.”
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