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. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966 and experienced the height of the Beatles' popularity as well as sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography "Wonderful Today" (titled "Wonderful Tonight" in the United States).
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Upon their return to England, Boyd and Harrison continued to adhere to a lifestyle of yoga and vegetarianism, and Boyd received further tuition on the dilruba from Shiv Dayal Batish.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to George Harrison
In early 1969, according to author Joshua Greene, Harrison told his friends from the Hare Krishna Movement that the song was about the Hindu deity Krishna; in an interview with "Rolling Stone" in 1976, he said of his approach to writing love songs: "all love is part of a universal love. When you love a woman, it's the God in her that you see." By 1996, Harrison had denied writing "Something" for Boyd. That year, he told music journalist Paul Cashmere that "everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie" because of the promotional film accompanying the release of the Beatles' recording, which showed the couple together.
Something (Beatles song) | Background and inspiration
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. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966 and experienced the height of the Beatles' popularity as well as sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography "Wonderful Today" (titled "Wonderful Tonight" in the United States).
Pattie Boyd | Introduction
Boyd was in a relationship with photographer Eric Swayne when she met Harrison, on 2 March 1964, and therefore declined his initial date proposal. Several days later, having ended the relationship with Swayne, she accompanied Harrison to a private gentlemen's club called the Garrick Club, chaperoned by the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. With the Beatles frequently away on concert tours, she and Harrison subsequently saw each other as often as their professional commitments allowed. In July 1964, Harrison bought Kinfauns, a house in Esher, Surrey, to escape the constant attention of fans in central London, and Boyd soon moved into the house also.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to George Harrison
The opening lyric was taken from the title of "Something in the Way She Moves", a track by Harrison's fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor. While Harrison imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles, his inspiration for "Something" was his wife, Pattie Boyd. In her 2007 autobiography, "Wonderful Today", Boyd recalls: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful ..." Boyd discusses the song's popularity among other recording artists and concludes: "My favourite [version] was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at Kinfauns." Having begun to write love songs that were directed at both God and a woman, with his White Album track "Long, Long, Long", Harrison later cited alternative sources for his inspiration for "Something".
Something (Beatles song) | Background and inspiration
Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled "Through the Eye of a Muse", have been widely exhibited.
Pattie Boyd | Introduction
This look defined Western fashion for women as a result of the international popularity of the Beatles and other British Invasion musical acts from 1964 onwards. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required). In her autobiography, Boyd recalls being known as the muse to designer Ossie Clark, who used to call some of his designs "Pattie". In early 1964, Boyd appeared in a television advertising campaign for Smith's crisps, directed by Richard Lester. Lester then cast her as a schoolgirl in the Beatles' 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night", where she met and befriended the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison. Boyd's modelling career skyrocketed as a result of her subsequent romantic involvement with Harrison.
Pattie Boyd | Modelling
Boyd had her first encounter with LSD in early 1965 when the couple's dentist, John Riley, secretly laced his guests' coffee with the drug during a dinner party at his home. As she was getting ready to leave with Harrison and John and Cynthia Lennon, Riley told them that he had spiked their drinks and tried to persuade them to stay. Outside, Boyd was in an agitated state from the drug and threatened to break a store window, but Harrison pulled her away. Later, when Boyd and her group were in a lift on their way up to the Ad Lib club, they mistakenly believed it was on fire.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to George Harrison
Harrison wrote the song for Pattie Boyd, the English model whom he married in January 1966. The lyrics convey an ambivalent tone, however, and have invited interpretation as a message to a casual love interest. Harrison based the song's jangly guitar riff on a riff used by Roger McGuinn in the Byrds' adaptation of "The Bells of Rhymney". "If I Needed Someone" features prominent three-part harmony vocals and Rickenbacker twelve-string electric guitar – the instrument that the Byrds had adopted to replicate Harrison's sound in the 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night". The song's use of drone and Mixolydian harmony also reflected Harrison's nascent interest in Indian classical music.
If I Needed Someone | Introduction
While the single's commercial performance was lessened by this, it topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States as well as charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and West Germany, and peaked at number 4 in the UK. "Something" is described as a love song to Pattie Boyd, Harrison's first wife, although Harrison offered alternative sources of inspiration in later interviews. Due to the difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his compositions onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered the song to Joe Cocker. As recorded by the Beatles, the track features a guitar solo that several music critics identify among Harrison's finest playing.
Something (Beatles song) | Introduction
She recalls that further assignments for "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair" were the result, along with jobs for "Tatler" (with photographer Jeanloup Sieff), more TV commercials, for Smith's and for L'Oréal's Dop shampoo brand, and advertisements in newspaper fashion pages. Boyd and Harrison were among the leading couples in the Swinging London era, when, according to a 1966 article in the "Daily Express", "actors, pop singers, hairdressers, and models" were London's new "privileged class". UK underground writer Barry Miles later described her as "by far the most glamorous" of all the Beatles' wives and girlfriends, while author Shawn Levy writes that, even more so than Jane Asher, the London-born stage actress who was Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the 1960s, Boyd epitomised what "sixties stardom was meant to confer upon its chosen".
Pattie Boyd | Modelling
Harrison married model Pattie Boyd on 21 January 1966, with McCartney serving as best man. Harrison and Boyd had met 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. They separated in 1974 and their divorce was finalised in 1977. Boyd said her decision to end the marriage was due largely to George's repeated infidelities. The last infidelity culminated in an affair with Ringo's wife Maureen, which Boyd called "the final straw". She characterised the last year of their marriage as "fuelled by alcohol and cocaine", and she stated: "George used coke excessively, and I think it changed him ...
George Harrison | Family and interests
The couple were engaged on 25 December 1965, and married on 21 January 1966 in a ceremony at Epsom register office. In his "How a Beatle Lives" profile in the "Evening Standard" in March 1966, Harrison stressed the equality of their relationship and credited Boyd with broadening his outlook. In September and October, after the Beatles' final concert tour, Boyd and Harrison spent six weeks in India, as guests of Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar. While in Bombay, as Harrison continued his sitar studies under Shankar's tutelage, Boyd began learning to play the dilruba, a bow-played string instrument. Due to the attention of fans and the press, they left the city with Shankar and stayed on houseboats on Dal Lake in Kashmir.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to George Harrison
Writing in 1966, British fashion designer Mary Quant commented that it had become a requisite for contemporary women to strive "to look like Pattie Boyd rather than Marlene Dietrich", adding: "Their aim is to look childishly young, naïvely unsophisticated, and it takes more sophistication to work out that look than those early would-be sophisticates ever dreamed of." At the request of Gloria Stavers, Boyd began writing a column, titled "Patti's Letter from London", for the American teen magazine "16". According to Hibbert: "She reported on the latest trends in Carnaby Street, informed readers as to what the Beatles and Stones were wearing at the moment, and gave advice on how to turn dark and curly hair straight and blonde." However, with Boyd the target of hostility from the Beatles' female fans, Harrison insisted she abandon her career, to ensure their privacy.
Pattie Boyd | Modelling
In March 1970, George Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, moved into their Victorian Gothic residence at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The 120-room house was built in the 1890s on the site of a thirteenth-century friary by Frank Crisp, a City of London solicitor and microscopist. Harrison was immediately taken with Crisp's penchant for whimsy, the legacies of which included interior features such as doorknobs and light switches shaped as monks' faces (which meant "tweaking" a nose in order to turn each light on), and a carving of a monk's head that showed him smiling on one side and frowning on the other.
The Answer's at the End | Background and inspiration
Boyd left Clapton in April 1987 and divorced him in 1989. Her stated reasons were Clapton's years of alcoholism, as well as his numerous affairs, including one with Italian actress Lory Del Santo. In 1989, her divorce was granted on the grounds of "infidelity and unreasonable behaviour". She subsequently suspected that Clapton's pursuit of her when she was married to Harrison "had more to do" with the competitive aspect of the two musicians' friendship, and that "Eric just wanted what George had."
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to Eric Clapton
Helen Mary "Jenny" Boyd (born 8 November 1947) is a British 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". She later managed an addiction treatment centre and wrote two books.
Jenny Boyd | Introduction
He said he wrote "If I Needed Someone" as a love song to Pattie Boyd, the English model whom he married soon after the song's release. The lyrics have nevertheless invited interpretation as being about a groupie or, in the words of music journalist Robert Fontenot, "some other attempt by the singer to juggle two affairs at once". Author Peter Doggett comments on Harrison's inspiration, in the context of the Beatlemania that continually encroached on the band's lifestyle: "'If I Needed Someone' may be the first pop song written from the jaded, though not quite exhausted viewpoint of a man who had women lined up outside his hotel door in every city of the world."
If I Needed Someone | Background and inspiration
According to Pattie Boyd, Harrison's wife at the time, the words "semolina pilchard" refer to Sergeant Pilcher of the London Drug Squad, who waged a campaign against British rock stars and underground figures during the late 1960s.
I Am the Walrus | Composition
The promotional clip for "Something" was shot in late October 1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was leaving the band. By this time, the individual Beatles had grown apart and so the film consisted of separate clips of each Beatle walking around his home, accompanied by his wife, edited together. Harrison's segment shows him and Boyd together in the garden at Kinfauns; in author John Winn's description, Harrison appears "solemn" while Boyd is seen "smiling sweetly" and "sporting leather and fur coats". Winn also comments on the attractiveness of all the wives in contrast to the unkempt appearance of McCartney, especially, who had sunk into depression at the realisation that the Beatles were over.
Something (Beatles song) | Promotional film
Harrison wrote "If I Needed Someone" as a love song to Pattie Boyd, the English model to whom he became engaged in December 1965 and was married the following month. In the song's Rickenbacker 12-string guitar riff, the Beatles returned the compliment paid to them earlier in 1965 by the Byrds, whose jangly guitar-based sound McGuinn had sourced from Harrison's playing the previous year. In MacDonald's view, the song is influenced "far more" by Indian classical music than by the Byrds, through Harrison's partly Mixolydian melody and the presence of drone. The latter aspect is furthered by McCartney's arpeggiated bass line in A major continuing over the chord change to a VII triad.
Rubber Soul | "If I Needed Someone"
As with all the new songs on his 1973 album "Living in the Material World", George Harrison wrote "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" in 1971–72, a period of heightened devotion to Hindu spirituality on his part. "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" is a love song, and in light of problems in Harrison's marriage to Pattie Boyd at the time, Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley remarks: "it's interesting to speculate as to who it was written about ..." Author Jeff Walker suggests that the song's apparently non-devotional subject matter may have resulted from Harrison and Boyd's marital difficulties. Against Harrison's wishes, Boyd had resumed her modelling career in May 1971, having long felt isolated by her husband's association with the Hare Krishna movement.
Don't Let Me Wait Too Long | Background
In author Andrew Grant Jackson's reading, "[Harrison] was heading towards marriage with Pattie Boyd, so the lyrics address all the women of the world, saying that had he met them earlier, it might have worked out, but now he was too much in love (but give me your number just in case)." While considering that Harrison appears to be "playing his options, albeit gently", author John Kruth deems the line "Carve your number on my wall" to be "one of "Rubber Soul"s most enigmatic lyrics" and an evocation of the imagery in "Norwegian Wood".
If I Needed Someone | Lyrics
a month after the Beatles' break-up, "Beautiful Girl" "sank back into the distance", according to Harrison. He returned to the composition in 1976, by which time he had split with Boyd and was living with Olivia Trinidad Arias, his future wife. Harrison met Arias in October 1974, at a party in Los Angeles, shortly after Boyd had left him for his friend Eric Clapton. Harrison had spoken to her frequently throughout that year, however, since Arias was working as a secretary for A&M Records, and by extension, for his recently launched Dark Horse record label. Intrigued by their daily phone calls, Harrison asked a friend who was visiting A&M's offices to try to obtain a photo of her.
Beautiful Girl (George Harrison song) | Background and composition
In August 2007, Headline Review published Boyd's autobiography, titled "Wonderful Today" and co-written with journalist and broadcaster Penny Junor. Re-titled "Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me" for the US market, the book contains many of Boyd's photographs. At the time, she was said to be looking forward to the idea of her book competing against Clapton's autobiography, which was published concurrently. Boyd carried out interviews to promote the release. Reviewing "Wonderful Today" for "The Daily Telegraph", Lynn Barber described it as "absolutely gripping" and a memoir that "gives more insight into the weirdness of rock-star life than anything I have ever read".
Pattie Boyd | Autobiography
In the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends and began writing and recording music together. This is when Clapton fell in love with Boyd. In an effort to satisfy his infatuation, Clapton briefly dated Boyd's sister Paula. His 1970 album with Derek and the Dominos, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs", was written to proclaim his love for Boyd, particularly the hit song "Layla". Clapton drew inspiration from "The Story of Layla and Majnun" by Persian writer Nizami; based on a story about the seventh-century Nejdi Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya), the tale concerns a man driven to madness by his unattainable love.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to Eric Clapton
She was born as Helen Mary Boyd in Guildford, Surrey, England in November 1947 to Diana Frances Boyd and Colin Ian Langdon Boyd, a pilot. She was a freelance model in the 1960s, and often accompanied her sister Pattie to modelling jobs. The two of them began hanging out with The Beatles, various bands that included Eric Clapton, and other major British rock acts. She wrote, or co-wrote, two songs for the band Fleetwood Mac, although the band manager gave the writing credits to her husband, Mick Fleetwood. As a rock star muse, she inspired at least Donovan and Mick Jagger to write songs about her.
Jenny Boyd | Early life and career
In his 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", George Harrison recalls that he started writing "So Sad" in 1972 while in New York. He reproduces his original lyrics in the book, written on stationery from the Park Lane Hotel in Manhattan. Harrison identifies this period as when he was breaking up with his first wife, Pattie Boyd, although the couple did not formally separate until July 1974, when Boyd left him for Eric Clapton. Al Aronowitz, a New York-based journalist and a friend of the Harrisons, later expressed his surprise at the failure of their marriage, saying: "I never saw the breakup coming … around them everything seemed magical." Harrison and Boyd met on the set of the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964 and were married two years later.
So Sad | Background and inspiration
This period coincided with the end of his marriage to Pattie Boyd, who has described their home as "a madhouse" during their final year together. Harrison became reacquainted with Smith through longtime Beatles aide Terry Doran. Harrison admired Smith as "a wonderfully eccentric person", a quality that had similarly inspired him about Sir Frank Crisp, the original owner of Friar Park. Author Dale Allison suggests that Smith became a court jester figure for Harrison, who wrote the song "His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" as a tribute to Smith. In his autobiography, Harrison terms the composition "a piece of personal indulgence, like some other of my songs about things nobody else knows or cares about, except maybe two people".
His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen) | Background
Harrison is an artist and frequently posts her work on her Instagram.
Patti Harrison | Personal life
Boyd began taking photographs of musicians and other friends during the 1960s and was a member of the Royal Photographic Society. In a 2008 interview, she said that it was not until 2004 that she felt "emotionally ready" to revisit the images. She also said that her lack of professional status probably made for a more intimate and authentic mood in her work, since her subjects were relaxed in her company. Boyd first exhibited her photos of Harrison and Clapton at the San Francisco Art Exchange on Valentine's Day 2005, in a show titled "Through the Eye of a Muse".
Pattie Boyd | Photography
George Harrison liked "Something in the Way She Moves" so much that he used the beginning as the first line of his 1969 song "Something" from the Beatles album "Abbey Road", which was also released as a single and reached No. 1. Early in the development of "Something," Harrison had expanded the opening of this song to "Something in the way she moves / Attracts me like a pomegranate," using the word "pomegranate" simply as a place-holder until better words could be found. Taylor has stated that "I never thought for a second that George intended to do that. I don't think he intentionally ripped anything off, and all music is borrowed from other music.
Something in the Way She Moves | Inspiration for "Something"
Boyd became involved in charity work following her separation from Clapton in the late 1980s. In 1991, she co-founded SHARP (Self Help Addiction Recovery Program) with Barbara Bach, the second wife of former Beatle Ringo Starr.
Pattie Boyd | Charity work
The melody returns to C major for the guitar solo, the third verse, and the outro. While Leng considers that, lyrically and musically, "Something" reflects "doubt and striving to attain an uncertain goal", author Ian Inglis writes of the confident statements that Harrison makes throughout regarding his feelings for Boyd. Referring to lines in the song's verses, Inglis writes: "there is a clear and mutual confidence in the reciprocal nature of their love; he muses that [Boyd] 'attracts me like no other lover' and 'all I have to do is think of her,' but he is equally aware that she feels the same, that 'somewhere in her smile, she knows.'" Similarly, when Harrison sings in the middle eight that "You're asking me will my love grow / I don't know, I don't know", Inglis interprets the words as "not an indication of uncertainty, but a wry reflection that his love is already so complete that it may simply be impossible for it to become any greater".
Something (Beatles song) | Composition
In October 1974 – towards the end of what Harrison termed a "bad domestic year", following his split with Boyd – he used the same quote in an interview with BBC Radio's Alan Freeman, when again discussing the current relationship among the four ex-Beatles."That's Entertainment", Contra Band Music, 10 October 2012 (retrieved 23 December 2013). Harrison wrote his first Friar Park-inspired composition, "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)", within two months of moving in. As with the "Crispisms" that surfaced in the lyrics to his 1974 single "Ding Dong, Ding Dong", a number of years elapsed before he incorporated the "Scan not a friend" inscription into a song.
The Answer's at the End | Background and inspiration
She later suggested that she and Harrison could become a singer-and-songwriter pairing on the scale of Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. After reading these comments in 1970, Harrison wrote "When Every Song Is Sung" with Bassey in mind, although it was not a composition that she ever recorded.
Something (Beatles song) | Shirley Bassey
Harrison and Pattie Boyd were married in January 1966, having met two years before on the set of the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night", but by 1968, his dedication to meditation and Eastern mysticism had begun to divide the couple. Harrison wrote "Let It Down" in late 1968. The song features the same major-seventh chord voicings that intrigued Bob Dylan during that year's Thanksgiving holidays, when the two musicians collaborated on "I'd Have You Anytime" in upstate New York. In the absence of any discussion of the track by Harrison in his 1980 autobiography, commentators have identified "Let It Down" as a sensual love song.
Let It Down | Background and composition
Early in the song, Harrison tells her, "I loved you from the moment I saw you", and by the last verse, in the description of author Ian Inglis, "[Boyd's] 'sweet and lovely' personality makes her irresistible ... he now loves her 'more than ever.'"
For You Blue | Background and composition
It debuted the painting of musician Ronnie Wood in 1987. In 2005 it displayed the photography of Pattie Boyd, known as the wife and muse ("Layla") of musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
San Francisco Art Exchange | Introduction
In his 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", Harrison states that he began writing "Beautiful Girl" during sessions for singer Doris Troy's eponymous solo album on Apple Records, recording for which commenced in October 1969. Harrison co-produced the album with Troy, and one of the musicians who contributed to the sessions was Stephen Stills, whose "very good" 12-string acoustic guitar Harrison borrowed one evening, during which he came up with the tune to "Beautiful Girl". Harrison's inspiration for the song's lyrics was his wife, Pattie Boyd, but he was unable to write more than a single verse, which begins: After trying out the song at the start of production for "All Things Must Pass" in May 1970,Lindsay Planer, "George Harrison 'Beautiful Girl'", AllMusic (retrieved 3 February 2013).
Beautiful Girl (George Harrison song) | Background and composition
In 2011, Spector recalled of the material that Harrison had amassed, such as "Let It Down": "He had literally hundreds of songs, and each one was better than the rest. He had all this emotion built up ... I don't think he had played them to anybody, maybe Pattie."
Let It Down | Phil Spector's involvement
without a single shred of evidence or justification". In her autobiography, Pattie Boyd also expresses doubt regarding the truth behind Mardas' claims, but in this atmosphere of suspicion, she had a "horrid dream about Maharishi" and, the next day, told Harrison that they should leave. According to Harrison, Lennon "had wanted to leave anyway", to see Ono, and the speculation surrounding Farrow and other female students "stirred up a situation" that Lennon was able to exploit.
The Beatles in India | Allegations of sexual impropriety
In the United States, the book debuted at the top of the "New York Times" Best Seller list.
Pattie Boyd | Autobiography
See also List of songs recorded by Patti Page.
Patti Page | Discography
While in Portugal, Harrison stayed with his musician friend Gary Wright, who, Huntley suggests, "play[ed] the diplomat" by telling the press: "He's writing lots of new things and he seems to be having a good time ... Sometimes he takes Pattie with him, but I feel he just felt like a holiday and wanted to get away."
Don't Let Me Wait Too Long | Background
Since 1965, George Harrison and his wife, Pattie Boyd, had lived in Kinfauns in Surrey, south of London. The house was a bungalow and too small to accommodate a home recording studio, so the couple began a year-long search for a larger property, concentrating on an area west of London encompassing the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. In January 1970, Harrison purchased the 120-room Friar Park, set on 33 acres of land, just west of Henley-on-Thames. Previously the home of an order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Salesians of Don Bosco, the four-storey house and its grounds were in a dilapidated state, and it was not until the start of March that the Harrisons moved from a worker's cottage and into the main residence.
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) | Background
In his note, Harrison said that the riff was based on the one McGuinn had played on the Byrds' adaptation of "The Bells of Rhymney", and that the rhythm was based on the drum part in "She Don't Care About Time". McGuinn later recalled: "George was very open about it. He sent [the record] to us in advance and said, 'This is for Jim' – because of that lick [in 'The Bells of Rhymney']." Writing in "The Beatles Anthology", Harrison commented on the difficulties he faced as a nascent songwriter during the "Rubber Soul" period, relative to Lennon and McCartney, both of whom had been writing "since they were three years old".
If I Needed Someone | Background and inspiration
In July 1968, she and her sister Jenny, who was also a model, opened a boutique in London's fashionable Chelsea Market. They named it "Jennifer Juniper" after Donovan's song of the same name. Jenny managed the shop, which sold antiques and other "objets d'art", while Boyd was the buyer.
Pattie Boyd | Modelling
Harrison first introduced "Something" at a Beatles session on 19 September 1968, when he played it to George Martin's stand-in as producer of "The Beatles", Chris Thomas, while the latter was working out the harpsichord part for Harrison's track "Piggies". Despite Thomas's enthusiasm for the new composition, Harrison chose to focus on "Piggies". He told Thomas that he intended to offer "Something" to singer Jackie Lomax, whose debut album Harrison was producing for Apple Records. "Something" was not among the tracks released on Lomax's album, however, much of which was recorded in Los Angeles following the completion of the White Album.
Something (Beatles song) | The Beatles' "Get Back/Let It Be" rehearsals
You know, it's hard to go back to anything thirty years later and expect it to be how you would want it now."
George Harrison | "All Things Must Pass": 1970
Married to Patrick Harrison, Boyd has acted as part-time carer for her husband at their home in Shepperton since he suffered a stroke in 2003.
Carole Boyd | Personal life
The year Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, moved in, he was photographed among four garden gnomes located on the main lawn for the cover of "All Things Must Pass", and again with his father Harry six years later, with the photo appearing inside the gatefold cover of "Thirty Three & 1/3". Harrison immortalised the grand building and its surrounds in his 1976 song "Crackerbox Palace", which was his nickname for the mansion (after Lord Buckley's home in California). The "All Things Must Pass" track "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" was inspired by Friar Park's history, and the lyrics of later songs such as "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" and "The Answer's at the End" directly quote from the many carvings around the property.
Friar Park | The gardens
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. 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: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me. Beginning with her childhood in Kenya, the book covers Boyd's modelling career in London during the 1960s, her marriage to and divorce from Beatle George Harrison and later marriage and divorce of Harrison's best friend, Eric Clapton. The book's title is in reference to Clapton's 1977 song "Wonderful Tonight", which he wrote about Boyd.
Wonderful Today | Introduction
"Something in the Way She Moves" is a song written by James Taylor that appeared on his 1968 debut album for Apple Records, "James Taylor". It has also been covered by other artists, including Tom Rush and Harry Belafonte. The opening line inspired George Harrison to write the No. 1 Beatles' song "Something". According to James Taylor's stage banter at The Star in Frisco July 31, 2017, this was the song he played for Paul McCartney and George Harrison as an audition before signing with Apple Records.
Something in the Way She Moves | Introduction
She asks for time, and goes to see "George Berry", who turns out to be Boyd. She asks him for money and they plan to leave the country together.
The Long Memory | Plot
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Patti Boulaye | References
(b. 1955), as well as two half-sisters, Clare (1962–2018) and Julia (b. 1964). Boyd attended Hazeldean School in Putney, the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead, and St Martha's Convent in Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire. She achieved three GCE O level passes in 1961. She moved to London in 1962 and worked as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon. A client who worked for "Honey" magazine then inspired her to begin work as a model.
Pattie Boyd | Early life
Like "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", "I Dig Love" originated from George Harrison's initial experimentation with slide-guitar playing, in open E tuning. His introduction to this technique occurred in December 1969, when he joined Eric Clapton as a guest on Delaney & Bonnie's European tour. In his autobiography, "I Me Mine", Harrison recalls that Delaney Bramlett "handed me a bottleneck slide and asked me to play a line which Dave Mason had played on the ['Coming Home'] record", since Mason had recently quit the tour. With Harrison travelling without his wife, Pattie Boyd, the Delaney & Bonnie tour revealed an aspect of his persona that was at odds with his public image as the Beatle most preoccupied with Eastern religion and spirituality.
I Dig Love | Background
The track was written about Jenny Boyd, sister of Pattie Boyd, in the throes of a heroin overdose, shortly before they went with The Beatles to Rishikesh. She married Mick Fleetwood and was, at one time, the sister-in-law of George Harrison and, later, Eric Clapton. The song features a wind section with oboe, flute, and bassoon. The last stanza of the song is sung in French. Donovan also performed on a novelty cover of the single released in Britain in 1990, by comedy duo Trevor and Simon, as "The Singing Corner Meets Donovan". It spent one week at number 68 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1990.
Jennifer Juniper | Song
The exhibition appeared in San Francisco and London during 2006, and in La Jolla, California in 2008. "Through the Eye of a Muse" was also shown in Dublin and in Toronto in 2008, and at the Blender Gallery in Sydney and in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 2009 and 2010. Her exhibition "Yesterday and Today: The Beatles and Eric Clapton" was shown in Santa Catalina Island in California, and at the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, DC, in 2011.
Pattie Boyd | Photography
Harrison's mother is Vietnamese and her father, from Detroit, was white. Her father was in the Army, and met her mother during the Vietnam War. She is the youngest of seven children and was raised in a rural conservative community in Ohio. Her father died from a heart attack when she was six. She came out as trans at the end of college and moved home to her family, who she described as supportive of her transition.
Patti Harrison | Early life
In 2002, a year after Harrison's death, McCartney and Eric Clapton performed it at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Something (Beatles song) | Introduction
"The Answer's at the End" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison, released in 1975 on his final album for Apple Records, "Extra Texture (Read All About It)". Part of the song lyrics came from a wall inscription at Harrison's nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, a legacy of the property's original owner, Sir Frank Crisp. This aphorism, beginning "Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass", had resonated with Harrison since he bought Friar Park in 1970, and it was a quote he often used when discussing his difficult relationship with his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney. Harrison's adaptation of the verse for "The Answer's at the End" coincided with a period of personal upheaval, following the severe criticism afforded his 1974 North American tour by several influential reviewers.
The Answer's at the End | Introduction
This is a partial list of Patti Page's recorded songs:
List of songs recorded by Patti Page | Introduction
Harrison then became a regular visitor to Fitzalan Road, attending recitals held there with his wife, Pattie Boyd.Sarah Harrison, "Patricia Angadi: Painter and novelist who introduced the Beatles to Ravi Shankar", "The Guardian", 17 July 2001 (retrieved 9 December 2016). Harrison and Boyd also had their portrait painted by Patricia during this time. The proximity to the Angadis and their network furthered Harrison's interest in Indian music and culture, which he immediately absorbed into the Beatles' work. When recording his first Indian-styled composition for the Beatles, "Love You To", in April 1966, Harrison used a tabla player, Anil Bhagwat, at the recommendation of Patricia Angadi.
Asian Music Circle | Association with the Beatles
King, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Little Richard, Curtis Mayfield, The O'Jays, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson, Rolling Stones, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, Chaka Kahn, David Ruffin, and Tina Turner.
Sue Cassidy Clark | Introduction
According to biographer Gary Tillery, Harrison's creativity was most likely inspired by his habitual marijuana use, a legacy of the Beatles' first meeting with Bob Dylan in August 1964. Harrison wrote "I Need You" about his girlfriend Pattie Boyd, whom he met in March 1964 while the Beatles were filming "A Hard Day's Night". 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. The song's lyrics address a time when she left Harrison. Shortly before recording the songs, Harrison routined "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much" with John Lennon at the latter's house in Weybridge.
I Need You (Beatles song) | Background and inspiration
Her quasi-namesake and fellow Australian composer Anne Boyd is no relation.
Ann Carr-Boyd | Biography
As a promoter of music and performer she worked with Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Horne, George Szell, Van Cliburn, Fred Waring, and Isaac Stern.
Lorene Harrison | Work
Harrison bought Kinfauns for £20,000 () on 17 July 1964, on the advice of Dr Walter Strach, the Beatles' accountant. Going house-hunting, Harrison said later, "It was the first one I saw, and I thought, that'll do." He was joined there months later by his girlfriend Pattie Boyd. Harrison and Boyd were married on 21 January 1966, and lived in the house until 1970, when Harrison purchased Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Kinfauns | Purchase by Harrison
Che'Nelle – "Things Happen for a Reason"
Rich Harrison | 2007
He died in 1944.
Cleland Boyd McAfee | Introduction
When Boyd rebuffed his advances in late 1970, Clapton descended into heroin addiction and self-imposed exile for three years. Once cured of his addiction in 1974, Clapton again pursued Boyd, who now agreed to leave Harrison. She and Clapton were married in 1979. They remained friendly with Harrison, who took to calling Clapton his "husband-in-law". Boyd soon struggled within the marriage and took to drinking heavily, but these difficulties were masked by her public image with Clapton. He later admitted to being a "full-blown" alcoholic who was often abusive towards his wife. Clapton and Boyd tried unsuccessfully to have children, trying in vitro fertilisation in 1984 and 1987, but were faced instead with miscarriages.
Pattie Boyd | Marriage to Eric Clapton
Following its appearance in David Leland's film "Concert for George" (2003) and on the accompanying live album, this performance of "Something" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Bob Dylan also played the song live during his November 2002 concerts, as a tribute to Harrison. McCartney has continued to perform "Something", adopting the Concert for George mix of ukulele and rock backing; a version with this musical arrangement was included on his 2009 album "Good Evening New York City".
Something (Beatles song) | Harrison tributes
Later that year, "Something" was one of the two "key tracks" highlighted by "Rolling Stone" when the magazine placed Harrison at number 11 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists".
Something (Beatles song) | Critical reception, awards and legacy
Nizami's tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to a man she didn't love, resulting in Majnun's madness, struck a deep chord with Clapton. Boyd divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979 during a concert stop in Tucson, Arizona. Harrison was not bitter about the divorce and attended Clapton's wedding party with fellow Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. During their relationship, Clapton wrote another love ballad for Pattie, "Wonderful Tonight" (1977). Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1989.
Layla | Background
While a third year high school student, at the age of 14 years, she performed weekly at the Bronte Surf Club as lead singer of The Statesmen with Nev Jade, Peter Maxworthy, Duncan McGuire (on bass guitar), Mark Rigby and Peter Walker. Singer-songwriter, Jay Justin (aka Justin McCarthy) was impressed with her vocals and recommended her for a recording contract with EMI.
Little Pattie | Beginnings
His purchase of Bhaktivedanta Manor early that year as a UK headquarters for ISKCON – or, colloquially, "the Hare Krishna movement" – led to ridicule in the British press. Author Joshua Greene, a former ISKCON devotee, describes a visit Harrison made to the house in August 1973 when the singer shared his concerns with Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the movement's international leader: "I'm provoking a bad reaction," Harrison confided. "The stronger the commitment on my part, the stronger the animosity becomes." At the same time, Harrison's marriage to Pattie Boyd was coming to an end, and he would later describe his behaviour during their final years together as "the naughty period, 1973−74".
Dark Horse (George Harrison song) | Background and composition
To the disappointment of many fans, however, he chose to alter some of the song's lyrics (such as changing the first line to "If there's something in the way, remove it"). Further distancing himself from the Beatles' legacy, Harrison told journalists at the start of the tour that he would join a group with Lennon "any day" but rejected the idea of working again with McCartney, since he preferred Willie Weeks as a bassist. MacDonald comments that this statement was likely in reference to McCartney's "too fussily extemporised" bass part on the Beatles' 1969 recording. With Boyd having left Harrison for Clapton earlier in 1974, Larry Sloman of "Rolling Stone" described the reworked "Something" as "a moving diary of his love life".
Something (Beatles song) | Live performances by Harrison
All songs written by George Harrison, except where noted.
All Things Must Pass | Track listing
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Pattie Howard | Studio sessions
while his marriage to Pattie Boyd finally fell apart. According to Inglis, "I Don't Care Anymore" is an example of the "[musical] synthesis of jug band, skiffle, and country traditions" that Harrison had grasped via influences such as Bob Dylan, the Band, Lonnie Donegan, David Bromberg and the Lovin' Spoonful. Author Bruce Spizer views the song as Dylan-influenced in its musical arrangement, like Harrison's 1973 B-side "Miss O'Dell", but describes the chord sequence as "pure Harrison". On the released recording, "I Don't Care Anymore" begins with Harrison speaking in a deep growl. These opening words – "Two old cowpoke went riding out one cold December day" – are a reference to Stan Jones's 1948 song "".
I Don't Care Anymore (George Harrison song) | Background and composition
Pattie Brooks (sometimes credited as Patti Brooks and Patty Brooks) is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing singer, appearing on the Bobby Darin Show and touring with, among others Helen Reddy. She sang backing vocals on Donna Summer's album "I Remember Yesterday".
Pattie Brooks | Introduction
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Patti Bown | External links
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Pattie Deakin | Early life
In 1966, Beatles guitarist George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met during the filming of "A Hard Day's Night". During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited guitar work on Harrison's song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Beatles' "White Album", and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar pseudonymously (as L'Angelo Misterioso) on Cream’s "Badge" from ""Goodbye"". However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd. The title, "Layla", was inspired by the story of "Layla and Majnun", which Clapton had been told by his friend Ian Dallas, who was in the process of converting to Islam.
Layla | Background
During this time he had an affair with George Harrison's former wife, Pattie Boyd. Findlay died in 2005. In 1985 Wood married his second wife, Jo Wood ("née" Karslake), mother of his daughter Leah and son Tyrone. He also adopted Jamie, Jo Wood's son from a previous relationship. In addition to his six children, Wood has six grandchildren.
Ronnie Wood | Personal life
Johns' uncles include Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and the late George Harrison. His mother Paula Boyd is the sister of Pattie Boyd, ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
Will Johns | Personal life
Simon Leng writes that, aided by the "fertile harmonic imagination" evident in "I Want to Tell You", "Revolver" "changed George Harrison's musical identity for good", presenting him in a multitude of roles: "a guitarist, a singer, a world music innovator … [and] a songwriter".
I Want to Tell You | Retrospective assessment and legacy
Harrison said in a 1976 interview: "I think all love is part of a universal love. When you love a woman, it's the God in her that you see."
That Is All (song) | Background
By the late 1960s, however, they had begun to grow apart due to Harrison's preoccupation with meditation and other spiritual pursuits. In an effort to regain her husband's attention, in 1970, Boyd responded to Clapton's long-held infatuation with her, only to reject his advances at that time. Unable to conceive a child, and with Harrison averse to adoption, Boyd resumed her career as a fashion model in May 1971, an activity that sat at odds with his spiritual convictions. According to Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley, the first public signs of a rift in the marriage came in August 1972. That month, Harrison travelled alone through Europe to Portugal to visit Gary Wright, who then "played the diplomat" by fending off press speculation regarding Boyd's absence.
So Sad | Background and inspiration
George Harrison wrote "For You Blue" in late 1968 as a love song to his wife Pattie Boyd. In his autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", he describes the composition as "a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal principles except it's happy-go-lucky!" The song was partly influenced by Harrison's recent stay in Woodstock in upstate New York, where he had collaborated with Bob Dylan and jammed with the Band. The visit allowed Harrison to experience a musical camaraderie that contrasted with the tense atmosphere in the Beatles over much of 1968, particularly during the recording of their self-titled double album (also known as "the White Album").
For You Blue | Background and composition
In 1994, she stated in a "Lear's Magazine" interview that she had little talent for anything but music and that she attended college as a way to further her ambitions as a performer while also satisfying parental expectations. She has a music degree from New York University, earned after she transferred from the University of Miami's jazz conservatory at the Frost School of Music.
Patti Scialfa | Early life
Susan Harrison was an American actress. Susan Harrison may also refer to:
Susan Harrison (disambiguation) | Introduction
In late 1969, George Harrison's song "Something" was issued on the A-side of a single by the Beatles – the first time that one of his compositions had been given that honour. Discussing the song, Harrison remarked in an interview: "There's a lot of songs like that in my head. I must get them down. Maybe even other people would like to sing them." In the summer of 1970, "Something" gave Welsh singer Shirley Bassey her biggest UK hit in nine years, an achievement that led her to tell the press that she and Harrison could become a singer-and-songwriter pairing on the scale of Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach.
I'll Still Love You | Background and composition
They utilise the celebrant and singers, Sole Mio, and marry.
Harper Whitley | Boyd Rolleston
"So Sad" was the oldest of the songs written by Harrison and recorded for "Dark Horse", the sessions for which began in November 1973. Author Peter Doggett describes Friar Park as having become "a haven of adulterous intrigue" by this time, with Harrison conducting an affair with Maureen Starkey, the wife of his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. This dalliance followed an episode of wife-swapping between the Harrisons and the Woods, when Wood embarked on a brief affair with Boyd in the Bahamas as Harrison holidayed with Wood's wife Krissy in Portugal. Late that year, rumours of problems in the Harrisons' marriage circulated after Wood announced to the British press that "my romance with Patti is definitely on".
So Sad | "Dark Horse" recording
Whereas Harrison's Krishna devotionals on "All Things Must Pass" had been uplifting celebrations of faith, his latest compositions betrayed a more austere quality, partly as a result of the Bangladesh experience. His musical arranger, John Barham, would later suggest that a spiritual "crisis" might have been the cause; other observers have pointed to Harrison's failing marriage to Boyd. Leng writes of his frame of mind at this time: "while George Harrison was bursting with musical confidence, "Living in the Material World" found him in roughly the same place that John Lennon was when he wrote 'Help!' – shocked by the rush of overwhelming success and desperately wondering where it left him."
Living in the Material World | Songs
Although he omits any discussion of the song from his autobiography, "I, Me, Mine" (1980), George Harrison told interviewers in September 1975 that he wrote "Can't Stop Thinking About You" over Christmas 1973.George Harrison interview, "Rockweek", (retrieved 5 June 2014). This period coincided with the end of Harrison's relationship with his first wife, Pattie Boyd, who has described their home, Friar Park, as a "madhouse" during their final year together. In her 2009 memoir, music-industry insider Chris O'Dell recalls spending the 1973 Christmas holiday with the couple and learning that Harrison was having an affair with Maureen Starkey, the wife of his fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.
Can't Stop Thinking About You | Background and composition
In addition, his wife, Pattie Boyd, had temporarily left him that same weekend, after discovering that Harrison was having an affair with a French woman they had invited to stay at their home. Although the song is recognised as a deeply personal statement, "Hear Me Lord" is one of the compositions that Harrison does not mention at all in his 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine". Harrison biographer Simon Leng describes the self-revelation evident in its lyrics as "unprecedented", adding: "How many millionaire rock stars use a song to beg forgiveness from God, or anyone else ...?" Leng identifies three "anchors" in the song's lyrics: the phrases "forgive me", "help me" and "hear me".
Hear Me Lord | Background and composition