Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
May 2008 · Crown Archetype
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story, from her tumultuous childhood and the beginning of her modeling career to her marriages with George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and shares exclusive photographs of her life in the sixties and beyond
“A charming, lively, and seductive book.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Wonderful Tonight] will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal.”—Entertainment Weekly
This is my truth, which may not necessarily be as others remember it. But if my story is to have any validity, I have to tell the truth as I see it.
In Wonderful Tonight, iconic photographer Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence and reveals how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most legendary muse in the history of rock and roll.
She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day’s Night. Ten days later, a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old Pattie Boyd, this was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles’ inner circle—a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and a veritable who’s who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the music-making, and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Linda and Paul McCartney, Cynthia and John Lennon, Maureen and Ringo Starr, and especially with her husband, George. It was a sweet, turbulent life, which took an unexpected turn when a passionate letter set in motion a sordid love affair with Eric Clapton.
The woman who inspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,” Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny, and heartbreaking—and totally honest.
“A charming, lively, and seductive book.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Wonderful Tonight] will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal.”—Entertainment Weekly
This is my truth, which may not necessarily be as others remember it. But if my story is to have any validity, I have to tell the truth as I see it.
In Wonderful Tonight, iconic photographer Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence and reveals how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most legendary muse in the history of rock and roll.
She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day’s Night. Ten days later, a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old Pattie Boyd, this was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles’ inner circle—a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and a veritable who’s who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the music-making, and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Linda and Paul McCartney, Cynthia and John Lennon, Maureen and Ringo Starr, and especially with her husband, George. It was a sweet, turbulent life, which took an unexpected turn when a passionate letter set in motion a sordid love affair with Eric Clapton.
The woman who inspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,” Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny, and heartbreaking—and totally honest.
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December 25, 2018
Model and muse Pattie Boyd inspired two of rock's most famous love songs - 'Something' and 'Layla." Here she chronicles the romance and heartbreak as the lover and wife of George Harrison and later Eric Clapton - and the long journey to recover her identity as an independent woman and professional photographer. Lively and easy reading.
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Crystal Ra DOCIEL DIENVE
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August 27, 2016
Without excoriating anyone, there's a certain truthful ring to these memoirs. I too have my past of partnering musicians who were well known and the story is familiar. Sex and drugs and rock and roll was the life we lived to the utter ruin of many. I appreciate the author's candor & her choosing to see the good in each person. I thank you.
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October 26, 2017
Pattie went from bad to worse. George went from being a loving husband and caring about Pattie's family to a chanting, drugged-out philanderer and Eric was a manipulative, contolling, abusive dope addict from the beginning. It's so sad that George and Pattie didn't make it. Eric was a mistake from beginning to end. Nothing was gained from reading this book. I still see "Something" as a song written out of love. "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" are great songs, but I will never again see them as love songs.
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About the author
Pattie Boyd is an acclaimed photographer whose exhibition Through the Eyes of a Muse toured two continents. She lives in West Sussex, England.
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