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World Hotels - Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.66092
EAN: 9780307407832
ISBN: 0307407837
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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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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Summary: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............
Comment: No details, no feelings, no insight, just plain nothing. Here's a woman who was married to two of the biggest rock stars the world has ever produced and you can break it down to: "George liked to chant. Eric liked to drink. Both liked to sleep with my friends". Save the cash folks. Skip this one.
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Summary: boooring! reliably some people owe the luck of their life only the fact that they posess a nice smile, opening people's hearts
Comment: I just read it again after one year and had only bought it as it came out with Eric's book. Can't help it but it's the most boring endless listing of so called famous people she met in her life whilst being with George and Eric, not even worth to be called a book .
to her apologies the preface mentions it "the way she has seen it" and I can only feel pity for her if her "book" gives any clue to her personality it can only be called boring and I can understand why George and Eric got tired of her.
Beatles fans should not be angry, they were people like everybody else, just humans and I remember the lyrics of Frank Zappa in dirty love " don't tell me you've never seen the books in you daddy's buttom drawer".
it proves the German Philispher Artur Schopenhauer who wrote:
reliably some people owe the luck of their life only the to the fact that they posess a nice smile winning other peoples hearts
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Summary: Wonderful Tonight - a wonderful read!
Comment: Pattie Boyd was at the center of the "Swinging 60's" in England as a fashion model before she was selected for a small role in the Beatle's film "A Hard Day's Night." That's how she met George Harrison, whom she married. Later she married George's good friend and neighbor, Eric Clapton. In this book she looks back on those days with the Beatles, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. It's a fascinating read -- a real page turner! Pattie has done a great job of recreating the time and providing insider views of the Rock & Roll lifestyle in the 1960's and 70's. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Kudos to Pattie Boyd for an Honest Memoir
Comment: In this fascinating memoir, Pattie Boyd, with co-author Penny Junor, lays bare her childhood and her marriages to two of the giants of late-20th century rock: George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
Boyd sets the stage with an adept chronicle of her childhood. Transplanted with her family to Kenya at an early age, she weathers the dissolution of her parents' marriage, a controlling and demanding stepfather, and repatriation to England. Leaving home at 17, she soon becomes a model in 1960s London, entering a glamorous world peopled with artists, fashion designers, photographers and musicians. Soon, Boyd is cast in Hard Day's Night, meets George Harrison, falls in love... and the rest is a modern day Cinderella story. Until you get to the dark side.
Wealth, beauty, talent, and fame turn to ashes in Wonderful Tonight. Yes, Boyd is the inspiration for several of the most renowned love songs in 20th century rock music, but both Harrison and Clapton cheat on her repeatedly, and she never manages to conceive the child she so desperately wants. Devastatingly, both Harrison and Clapton father children with others-- Clapton while he is ostensibly partnered with Boyd. If Boyd's marriage to Harrison is difficult and unsatisfying-- the two grow apart as Harrison withdraws increasingly into the world of meditation-- her marriage to Clapton is disastrous. Despite Clapton's passion and artistry, his mammoth addictions to alcohol and drugs sink the union.
The message? Glamor, wealth, beauty and fame may not always work out as advertised. Both of Boyd's marriages are unhappy ones, and her divorce settlement with Clapton is comparatively meagre. The Pattie Boyd you admired in the fan mags was a glossy image whose life, for all its parties, excitement and travel, yielded few lasting pleasures.
I applaud Boyd for stripping away the media gloss and working with Junor to pen this stark memoir. Boyd's words about her inability to bear a child tear at the heart, and her depictions of life with Harrison and Clapton are detailed, lively, and well-drawn. Although Boyd is keenly disappointed by both men, she never loses sight of what she loved in them and continues to admire their talent.
For a sobering look at Boyd, Harrison and Clapton behind the headlines, read Wonderful Tonight.
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Summary: this woman is a true bitch!
Comment: I recently met thio woman at the Fest or Beatles fans. She is a crude, rude, druckin Bitch. She was rude to everyone. She was charging $25.00 to sign her own book. The book is full of things that any average fan already knows. Save your money!
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