Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor
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Author: Pattie Boyd, Penny JunorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); 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 Me
Book Review: What planet were they from, again?
Summary: 2 Stars
Forgive me, but I can't understand why anyone, even in the Rock Culture of the 1960s would:
Leave their husbands with women who they think they are having an affair with for 6 days and go somewhere else.
Plan a vacation with their husband but when he gets sick go alone. Find out that he slept with another woman during the absence (another man's wife) and then still remain friends with the couple. And put their pictures in their book.
Want to be friends with a woman who her husband has his eye on for shopping fun but has to ask if she is sleeping with her husband. When the woman says "no" but admits that he tried, the shopping trip begins!
Openly flirt with their husband's best friend and the husband does not address this issue.
Openly declare love for a good friend's wife without getting belted in the mouth? And still remain not only on speaking terms but friends. (And this happens on two occasions in the book).
Marry a man who has an affair right in front of your eyes when you are living with him?
Feign sleep so you are not subjected to spousal rape.
Call an estranged husband up when her charge account at Harrods (that the estranged husband gave her when they were married) is closed and ask for the money because it was "embarrassing?"
Take the money, despite what the new boyfriend says.
Wrack up $5K in charges for Christmas gifts for the relatives without thinking that perhaps the account just might be closed.
Think that Americans get tested for Rubella before marriage instead of syphilis (not anymore - but when she married Clapton, this is what the blood test was for - who did the research on this book?)
Automatically run off to a relative's house whenever they are upset with their mates?
Get laced with LSD by a DENTIST against their will and punish them by "not speaking to them?" (I'm surprised that he wasn't invited to Eric & Pattie's wedding.
Go off with a guy who hooks their sister on heroin when she's 17?
And the corker - Think that your wife will be happy to help raise your child that you are having with a woman who you "slept with a few times?" And taking her out to dinner like this is a big celebration.
I felt like I was reading about people from another planet, or illiterate people from the backwoods who didn't know any better. None of these people knew how to communicate on any emotional level at all. They tried every drug and every goofy gimmick out there, but couldn't talk to one another.
Did anyone else find the behavior in this book a bit, shall we say, odd? Or maybe it's just me. The rubella might have gone to my brain.
Or, more likely, perhaps there are things that Pattie Boyd chooses not to remember.
I bought this book because I felt she had a good story to tell and felt she got a raw deal with her unfaithful husbands. I went into it on her side. But she only evokes pity for her in this book, not strength.
What I found was a very sad book about poor communication skills from a bunch of people who were not the brightest bulbs in the lamp.
Summary of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerFor 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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