Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her unbelievable story

Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, after all 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. 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.
A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Writer of Wonderful Tonight

Why are you writing the book now?

I have been asked for the last 15 years to write a book, and it is only now that I feel the time is right. My confidence in myself was restored after two successful exhibitions of my photography, and it occurred to me that I used to be after all ready to check out the unique experiences of my life and to share them–including all the ups and downs.

Tell us about the first time you met George Harrison.

Working as a model, I once in a while went for castings, mainly for T.V. ads. I went for an interview with some of the directors I had worked with in the past, and he cast me in his first movie, A Hard Day’s Night, to play the part of a schoolgirl. When I first saw George on the set, I thought he was the best-looking man I’d ever seen. I used to be so surprised when he asked me out on a date at the end of my first day of filming.

Tell us about the first time you heard George Harrison’s song, “Something.”

George said he had written a song for me, and he played it on the guitar at home without the words. Then when I heard the song after it had been recorded I couldn’t consider how utterly beautiful it was. It was released on a single in October 1969, and I felt so thrilled and flattered.

Tell us about the first time you heard Eric Clapton’s “Layla.”

Eric invited me to his band’s flat sooner or later and played a rough recording of “Layla” on a cassette recorder. I used to be sitting on a sofa and he on the floor as it played, and he kept looking up at me for a reaction. I used to be stunned; the intensity, passion and tenderness came across so strongly–I knew, as he said, it was written for me.

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