Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
May 2008 · Sold by 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
“A charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The New York Times Book Review
Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of 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. 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 appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The New York Times Book Review
Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of 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. 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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Peggy Flack Ake
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May 10, 2015
Beautifully written book of being a famous young model to living through the best and worst of being married to famous musicians and painful separations. Feeling lost, she then changes her life into one of great self-value. It's a raw look at the life of the famous in the 1960's.
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A Google user
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July 19, 2012
This is an excellent book! One sees some many biographies and autobiographies on the artists but so seldomly does one see a book about the people who inspired the artist. Miss.Boyd's book is very interesting as she writes of her childhood growing up in Kenya and her career as a modern model who was one of the embodiments of the 60's movement. Her life with both of her very talented husbands was very extravagant but also very tragic. Despite her great love, admiration and devotion to both of these men during
Susan Pa
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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 recently toured two continents. She lives in West Sussex, England.
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