New Pattie Boyd Book on Harrison & Clapton

rickboy88 · Post by **rickboy88** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:35 pm

When I recently logged onto Amazon, I saw that a new book by Pattie Boyd with a co-author is to come out in late August:

"Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me" (Hardcover)
by Pattie Boyd (Author), Penny Junor (Author)

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:32 pm

Good post, David! I'll go check it out right now --- and probably buy it!

lyle_from_minneapolis · Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:17 pm

How many incredible songs have been written about that one woman? George met her during Hard Day's Night. Here are a few I can think of...any others?

Layla
Wonderful Tonight
Something

dustymurphy · Post by **dustymurphy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:54 pm

For You Blue

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:01 pm

Not to upstage Patti's book, but when I went to the Amazon site they also offered this book coming out in October -- Clapton: The Autobiography (Hardcover)by Eric Clapton

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:02 pm

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:24 pm

Well while not exactly a song written for Patti both she and Clapton get a mention in Bye, Bye Love

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:28 pm

wikipedia sez:

"It is commonly believed that Harrison's inspiration for "Something" was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. However, Harrison himself later denied this, saying that "Everybody presumed I wrote ["Something"] about Pattie, but actually when I wrote it I was thinking of Ray Charles."[3]

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:23 pm

Sounds like an old Beatle one-liner to me.

dudley07726 · Post by **dudley07726** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:31 am

He also answered in a rather shy tone in an interview with David Wigg (which I have on record) from 1969 when asked for the inspiration for Something. "I think Patty"

dustymurphy · Post by **dustymurphy** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:50 pm

As best I remember reading, and I think it was on the Wikipedia page for Patti, but George admitted to writing it about her until she left for Clapton and then he said that the didn't have her so much in mind when he wrote as he might have told her. Whether it's the truth or hurt feelings, I don't know.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:36 pm

Something in the way she leaves...

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:26 pm

inth e Japan interviews he denies again having pattie in mind when writting it and says "It's funny, I wrote Isn't It A Pity about Pattie, and no one EVER asks me about that one!"

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:16 pm

oh, curse Wikipedia so.. perhaps the whole tune is merely about a Yorx Peppermint Pattie (age giveaway/obscure reference, Charles Nelson Reilly). Pity Patti Patter

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:58 pm

Ref the inquiry about other songs written about Patty Boyd --- add Ron Wood's "Breathe" to that list (from either his second or third solo album). He had an affair with her while she was married to EC....

Seems like a repeat story. Guitarists work together and wife ends up falling for the other guitarist. Regards Rich F.