Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor

Harmony Books, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 321 pages

An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a 40-year silence, telling how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century. She met the Beatles in 1964 in the cast of A Hard Day's Night. Ten days later George Harrison proposed. For 20-year-old Boyd, it was the beginning of a rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles' inner circle. She describes the dynamics of the group, and the memories she has of Paul and Linda, Cynthia and John, Ringo and Maureen, and especially the years with her husband, George. Then her turbulent life took another unexpected turn with a passionate letter from Eric Clapton. Now the high-profile model whose face epitomized the swinging London scene of the 1960s, a woman who inspired Harrison's song "Something" and Clapton's anthem "Layla, " has wrriten her book.--From publisher description.

About the author

Patricia Ann "Pattie" Boyd, born March 17, 1944, is an English model, photographer and author. She was the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. In August 2007, she published her autobiography Wonderful Tonight. Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse have been exhibited in Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London and throughout the United States.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
• Authors: Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor
• Contributor: Penny Junor
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harmony Books, 2007
• ISBN: 0307393844, 9780307393845
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Music; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Women