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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2008-05-27 ISBN: 0307407837 Number of pages: 336 Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Reviews of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and MeBook Review: Great book Summary: 5 Stars
I like books, documentaries, etc. that give me a view of what was really happening in the 60's when I was a kid growing up. I feel I can finally put the pieces together, make sense of it all. This book is one of those puzzle pieces. Given the childhood that Pattie and her siblings had, it's no wonder her life took the course it did. Just having your mother take off in an airplane one day and not know if she's ever coming back. Add to that a distant father, a grandmother who couldn't love all her grandkids, shifted from home to home and from school to school. Then you get away from home for the first time and where do you end up? In the modeling world of the Swinging Sixties. You meet a Beatle and your life becomes unreal on a level most of us can only guess at. Add drinks, drugs, foibles incidental to youth and who would be able to get in touch with their feelings and make rational and coherent decisions. I'm sure she can now. Hindsight is 20/20. But in the middle of that cauldron, she's lucky to be alive. We all make mistakes in our youth and we don't have to deal with her special circumstances. That lifestyle is only for the young but overwhelming for the young. As for some people thinking she didn't reveal enough, it could be one of several reasons or all of them. Maybe because of the drug taking, like Grace Slick, she can't remember a lot of it. Maybe there are things she wanted to tell but things she's still keeping close to her chest, which is her right. Maybe she didn't want to ruffle Paul McCartny, Yoko Ono, Olivia or Dhani Harrison's feathers or Ringo's or any Beatles' offspring. Maybe she never processed a lot of it, she can't externalize it for herself or others. I think she has painted a wonderful picture of the sixties and the Beatles' inside track. I think she takes us from a little girl lost to a middle aged woman coming to life. I think that's her point, "I never understood anything and it got me into hot water more than once and now I'm beginning to understand myself and life."
Summary of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and MeInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller
For the first time, rock music?s most famous muse tells her incredible story
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 Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight
Why are you writing the book now? I have been asked for the last 15 years to write a book, and it is only now that I feel the time is right. My confidence in myself was restored after two successful exhibitions of my photography, and it occurred to me that I was finally ready to take a look at the unique experiences of my life and to share them--including all the ups and downs. Tell us about the first time you met George Harrison. Working as a model, I occasionally went for castings, mainly for television commercials. I went for an interview with one of the directors I had worked with in the past, and he cast me in his first movie, A Hard Day?s Night, to play the part of a schoolgirl. When I first saw George on the set, I thought he was the best-looking man I?d ever seen. I was so surprised when he asked me out on a date at the end of my first day of filming. Tell us about the first time you heard George Harrison's song, "Something." George said he had written a song for me, and he played it on the guitar at home without the words. Then when I heard the song after it had been recorded I couldn?t believe how utterly beautiful it was. It was released on a single in October 1969, and I felt so thrilled and flattered. Tell us about the first time you heard Eric Clapton's "Layla." Eric invited me to his band's flat one day and played a rough recording of "Layla" on a cassette recorder. I was sitting on a sofa and he on the floor as it played, and he kept looking up at me for a reaction. I was stunned; the intensity, passion and tenderness came across so strongly--I knew, as he said, it was written for me.
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