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Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer. She was one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton , epitomised the British female look of the era.
Wonderful Today, subtitled The Autobiography, is the 2007 autobiography by English former fashion model and photographer Pattie Boyd, written with journalist and broadcaster Penny Junor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was published by Headline Review in Britain, on 23 August 2007, and by Harmony Books in the United States, where it was titled Wonderful Tonight ...
Helen Mary "Jenny" Boyd (born 1 November 1947) is an English former model, the younger sister of 1960s model and photographer Pattie Boyd (first wife of George Harrison). She quit her modelling career in the 1960s after discovering Transcendental Meditation , stating that modelling was "a waste of her time".
Harrison and Pattie Boyd lived in Kinfauns in Surrey from 1964 to 1970. Harrison married model Pattie Boyd on 21 January 1966, with McCartney serving as best man. [373] Harrison and Boyd had met on set in 1964 during the production of the film A Hard Day's Night, in which the 19-year-old Boyd had been cast as a schoolgirl. During a lunch break ...
Boyd divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979 during a concert stop in Tucson, Arizona. [9] Harrison was not bitter about the divorce and attended Clapton's wedding party with his former bandmates Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. [10] During their relationship, Clapton wrote another love ballad for Boyd, "Wonderful Tonight" (1977). [11]
Harrison wrote "I Need You" about his girlfriend Pattie Boyd, [14] [15] whom he met in March 1964 while the Beatles were filming A Hard Day's Night. [16] Their relationship provided Harrison with a sense of calm amid the frenzy of Beatlemania; for Boyd, however, the jealousy of the band's fans was confronting. [17]
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock, [2] and performed by Derek and the Dominos. It dealt with Clapton's unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison, and appeared on the 1970 double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
The track was written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was also the B-side to the " Long and Winding Road " single, issued in many countries, but not Britain, and was listed with that song when the single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canada's national chart in June 1970.