The new title features over 300 photographs and artworks, with Boyd sharing full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time. She is famously the inspiration for Harrison’s “Something” and Clapton’s “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight.”
Boyd’s love of photography developed around the time of her marriage to Harrison. She documented their life together, and later also her second marriage to Clapton, capturing a vast archive of images not just as part of two of the most famous marriages of all time, but also documenting their close friends and contemporaries, including Twiggy, David Bailey, Mick Jagger, Billy Preston and the Beatles.
George Harrison and Eric Clapton’s ex-wife, Pattie Boyd, said she bonded with Mick Jagger’s ex-wife, Jerry Hall. The pair knew what it meant to be a rock star’s wife.
During an interview with the Daily Mail, Boyd talked about her bond with Hall. She called her fellow model/actor “fabulous, gorgeous, and fun.” (dailymail)
Boyd explained, “We had a shared experience, although hers was on a different scale, because she’d go on tour with the Rolling Stones and at that time The Beatles only did small tours.”
Pattie Boyd and Jerry Hall were married to some of the most famous rock stars of the 1960s
Boyd met George on the set of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. He proposed to her when they met, falling in love at first sight. Boyd had a boyfriend but quickly broke up with him to date George. (cheatsheet)
The pair might have bonded over their shared experiences but lost touch. Boyd also revealed that she has not heard from Hall since she married media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in 2016. Their six-year marriage ended in July.
“I hope she’s all right,” Boyd said. “I was talking to a girlfriend the other day from America who is a friend of Jerry’s, too, and she hasn’t heard from her either. I don’t know, maybe she’s got a you-know-what [miming her mouth being zipped up].”
Boyd and Hall haven’t talked in a while, but they played significant roles in rock history. They were muses, although Boyd doesn’t think of herself as such. Without them, though, George, Clapton, and Jagger might not have written some of their best songs
Pattie Boyd Hated Hearing Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight. In an Harper’s Bazaar article, Boyd discussed “Wonderful Tonight” with Taylor Swift. Swift said she wanted to know what inspired the song. She learned the song was about a time Boyd took her time to pick out an outfit before going to a party. (Cheatsheet)
Boyd expected Clapton to be upset with her. “I came downstairs with trepidation thinking [Clapton] was going to be so angry that I’d taken far too long, and instead he said, ‘Listen, I’ve just written this song,'” she recalled.
In her 2007 book Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, Boyd wrote about the song of the same title. “It was such a simple song but so beautiful and for years it tore at me,” he said. “To have inspired Eric, and George before him, to write such music was so flattering. Yet I came to believe that although something about me might have made them put pen to paper, it was really all about them.
“And I think the depressions they suffered were due to the creative process the need that all creative people have to delve deep inside themselves to bring to the surface whatever they are creating,” she added. “‘Wonderful Tonight’ was the most poignant reminder of all that was good in our relationship, and when things went wrong it was torture to hear it.”
On her autobiography., which breaks her 40-year self-imposed silence over her marriages to two of the biggest music stars of the 20th century, was described to ‘full and frank’.
In other words, in exchange for her rumoured £950,000 advance, ex-model Pattie will be expected to dish the dirt about the sex, drugs and infidelities in her relationships with both the legends.
And to use the vernacular, Boyd certainly knows where the bodies are buried. Worse still for Clapton, her tome went head-to-head in a sales war with his own book (and, it is rumoured, highly sanitised) £3.5 million life story. No wonder the guitar king was feeling the heat.
Pattie’s account of her life with Clapton is sure to tarnish his image as one of rock’s gentlemen. Particularly as, the Mail has learnt, she intends to lay bare the bizarre details of how the singer agreed to swop his own girlfriend for Pattie as a trade-off with George Harrison.
She is also said to be planning to tell the full story about dark rumours that during their nine-year marriage, Clapton, battling an addiction to drink and drugs, was an abusive and violent husband who cheated on her with a string of women because she couldn’t bear him children..
