Wonderful Tonight

Zusatztext "[T]he appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of 'A Hard Day's Night' a charming! lively and seductive book! and like all good memoirs it also works as a cultural history The prose is clear and unpretentious! and although she writes candidly about the pain her husbands ' infidelities caused herthis isn't a bitter tell-all. There's an aura of sweetness around Boyd's approach." New York Times Book Review A scrumptious memoirThere is exactly one big question for Ms. Boyd to answer here: What made her leave Mr. Harrison for Mr. Clapton! her husband's close friend? To its credit the book answers that question plausibly and fully. The New York Times "They say if you can remember the '60s! you weren't really there. Well! Pattie Boyd was there! and she remembers it all." Wonderful Tonight "is a unique gospel of a turbulent time by someone who was in the very eye of the rock 'n' roll hurricane." Sydney Morning Herald "Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs! but life was far from glamorous. The ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton speaks out in this compelling autobiography." The London Sunday Times "There are so many wonderful stories in Pattie Boyd's life: Falling in love with a Beatle. Falling in love with another famous rock star! Eric Clapton! and being serenaded with 'Wonderful Tonight' . . . "But there is much that is excruciating in her life story." Boyd "was taught by her parents that she didn't deserve to be loved; she was told by her husbands that she wasn't worth very much! but here she is: not dead! not on drugs! not an alcoholic! but a survivor." London Daily Mail Will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal. Entertainment Weekly Boyd finally answers some of those questions [about George Harrison and Eric Clapton]but on her own terms. USA Today Sixties model Pattie Boyd opens up about her rocky relationships with two of music's most famed performers. Harper's Bazaar Informationen zum Autor Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor Klappentext Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller For 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.Chapter 1 One Childhood in Kenya My earliest memory is of sitting in a high chair spitting out spinachstrange for someone who turned into such a passionate foodie. In my late teens I became determined to improve the experience, even enjoy it, and today spinach is one of my favorite vegetablesbut it has to be right: steamed, chopped, and mixed with double cream, white pepper, and nutmeg. Delicious. Raw in a salad, it's even better. But at the age of two I couldn't get the repellent dark green mess out of my mouth fast enough. I was living in Scotland, at a house in West Lothian my grandparents had bought when I was a year old in 1945. We lived with them at that time, and my mother remembers the move from Somerset: taking me on a trainin an ordinary carriage, as she puts itwith all our belongings, and the embarrassment of having to feed me during the journey amid a group of soldiers. I was her first child, of six, and she was a young, nervous mother. Shortly after we arrived in Scotland my brother Colin was born. He is almost exactly two yea...

"[T]he appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of 'A Hard Day’s Night'… a charming, lively and seductive book, and like all good memoirs it also works as a cultural history… The prose is clear and unpretentious, and although she writes candidly about the pain her husbands ’ infidelities caused her…this isn’t a bitter tell-all. There’s an aura of sweetness around Boyd’s approach."
—New York Times Book Review

“A scrumptious memoir…There is exactly one big question for Ms. Boyd to answer here: What made her leave Mr. Harrison for Mr. Clapton, her husband’s close friend? To its credit the book answers that question plausibly and fully.”
—The New York Times

"They say if you can remember the '60s, you weren't really there. Well, Pattie Boyd was there, and she remembers it all." Wonderful Tonight "is a unique gospel of a turbulent time by someone who was in the very eye of the rock 'n' roll hurricane."
—Sydney Morning Herald

"Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs, but life was far from glamorous. The ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton speaks out in this compelling autobiography."
—The London Sunday Times

"There are so many wonderful stories in Pattie Boyd's life: Falling in love with a Beatle. Falling in love with another famous rock star, Eric Clapton, and being serenaded with 'Wonderful Tonight' . . . "But there is much that is excruciating in her life story." Boyd "was taught by her parents that she didn't deserve to be loved; she was told by her husbands that she wasn't worth very much, but here she is: not dead, not on drugs, not an alcoholic, but a survivor."
—London Daily Mail

“Will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Boyd finally answers some of those questions [about George Harrison and Eric Clapton]–but on her own terms.”
—USA Today

“Sixties model Pattie Boyd opens up about her rocky relationships with two of music’s most famed performers.”
—Harper’s Bazaar

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Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor

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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

For 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.

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#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.

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Childhood in Kenya

My earliest memory is of sitting in a high chair spitting out spinach—strange for someone who turned into such a passionate foodie. In my late teens I became determined to improve the experience, even enjoy it, and tod…