Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

Pattie Boyd · Penny Junor

May 2008 · Sold by Crown Archetype

About this ebook

#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.

Ratings and reviews

Model and muse Pattie Boyd inspired two of rock's most famous love songs - 'Something' and 'Layla." Here she chronicles the romance and heartbreak as the lover and wife of George Harrison and later Eric Clapton - and the long journey to recover her identity as an independent woman and professional photographer. Lively and easy reading.

Without excoriating anyone, there's a certain truthful ring to these memoirs. I too have my past of partnering musicians who were well known and the story is familiar. Sex and drugs and rock and roll was the life we lived to the utter ruin of many. I appreciate the author's candor & her choosing to see the good in each person. I thank you.

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.

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.