Harrison immediately asked her to marry him, in a fit of prescience and snappish Beatle humor.īoyd had been a successful London model in her dollybird days. And it meets them at the point where most of the world met Boyd: when she appeared briefly in the film "A Hard Day's Night," riding on a train and looking fetching in a schoolgirl's uniform. "Wonderful Tonight," which takes its title from another of Clapton's sublime, love-struck songs about her, devotes mercifully brief time to her formative years ("My earliest memory is of sitting in a high chair spitting out spinach" "My only comfort was Teddy, my beloved bear") and cuts quickly to the chase. Now, in a spotty but scrumptious memoir that sounds more like the handiwork of Boyd's collaborator, Penny Junor, she is ready to take stock of her amorous adventures. But in Boyd's case, being a muse also means never having paid a light bill until she was 45, jobless and suddenly unplugged from the world of rock 'n' roll royalty. Pattie Boyd calls herself a muse, and she has the ravishing love songs (George Harrison's "Something," Eric Clapton's "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues") to prove it. Wonderful Tonight George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and MeBy Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor321 pages.
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