Shortly thereafter, she begins devoting more time to photography, and gains a stable sense of who she is and what she can do on her own (with, one imagines, the help of a very good therapist), with nary a musician in sight. Pattie describes in painful detail the push-pull of their fraught relationship, in a way that anyone who has ever dated an alcoholic will recognize, until her realization that someone who calls you his muse and writes songs to you doesn’t necessarily mean it personally.

In her portrayal, Clapton wasn’t sober for the entire time he and Pattie were associated (which he admits in his recent memoir, Clapton). Pattie, emotionally abandoned by George, has no real self to fall back on, having identified so very early on as the wife and muse of a great man.Įnter Eric Clapton, George Harrison’s friend, portrayed here as a cross-addicted, seductive manipulator who, over the course of several years, plays on Pattie’s insecurity and neediness. Everything falls apart at the same time: George cheats on Pattie (at one point with Maureen Starr, Ringo’s wife), John pushes Cynthia away for Yoko Ono, and Jane Asher leaves Paul McCartney after she catches him in their house in bed with another woman. Pattie’s description of how she and George grew apart is poignant, especially given her perspective, all these years later, on the immaturity and confusion that led each to push the other away when, all clichés aside, they needed each other the most. Poor Pattie, so accustomed to pleasing her man and so confounded by his behavior. 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.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.Poor George – so young and so famous. Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerFor the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible storyPattie 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.

Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd