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Pattie Boyd

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Pattie Boyd

Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966, experiencing the height of the Beatles' popularity and sharing their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married mutual friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something", and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States). Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been exhibited.

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Born
Patricia Anne Boyd (1944-03-17) 17 March 1944 Taunton, Somerset, England
Occupations
Model, photographer
Years active
1961–present
Spouses
George Harrison (m. 1966; div. 1977) Eric Clapton (m. 1979; div. 1989) Rod Weston (m. 2015)
Height
5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Hair colour
Blonde
Eye colour
Blue
Website
pattieboyd

References

  1. Kim Kerrigan, who had a natural resemblance to Boyd, changed her first name from Patsy in 1964, to avoid the perception
  2. Boyd's first name was often abbreviated to "Patti" also.
  3. Her only line in the film was "Prisoners?" She later appeared in the "I Should Have Known Better" song segment.
  4. Levy adds: "That was why a provincial boy learned how to play bar chords and sing harmony and hitchhiked down the Great
  5. Batish described her as a "smart student" who quickly mastered the basics of the instrument.
  6. She was also one of the chorus singers on "Yellow Submarine" in 1966 and sang the female vocal parts, with Yoko Ono, on
  7. Harrison later cited alternative sources of inspiration for "Something". In early 1969, by which point he had befriended
  8. Harrison told friends that he was infertile, a gesture that they realised was out of consideration for Boyd, given that
  9. Boyd characterised the last year of her marriage as "fuelled by alcohol and cocaine", and claimed "George used coke exce
  10. Clapton says that Hurt was unaware that he and Harrison regularly played together in such a fashion, and Hurt had used h
  11. Boyd 2007, p. 4.
  12. "Profiles: Pattie Boyd's extraordinary life"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2007/08/28/patti_boyd_feature.shtml
  13. Boyd 2007, pp. 5–7.
  14. Boyd 2007, p. 3.
  15. Boyd 2007, p. 6.
  16. Boyd 2007, pp. 7–9, 19.
  17. Boyd 2007, p. 13.
  18. Boyd 2007, pp. 14–16.
  19. Boyd 2007, pp. 16–19.
  20. Boyd 2007, pp. 21, 28.
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