Wonderful Tonight - George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

Zusatztext "[T]he appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of 'A Hard Day’s Night'… a charming! lively and seductive book! and like all good memoirs it also works as a cultural history… The prose is clear and unpretentious! and although she writes candidly about the pain her husbands ’ infidelities caused her…this isn’t a bitter tell-all. There’s an aura of sweetness around Boyd’s approach." — New York Times Book Review “A scrumptious memoir…There is exactly one big question for Ms. Boyd to answer here: What made her leave Mr. Harrison for Mr. Clapton! her husband’s close friend? To its credit the book answers that question plausibly and fully.” — The New York Times "They say if you can remember the '60s! you weren't really there. Well! Pattie Boyd was there! and she remembers it all." Wonderful Tonight "is a unique gospel of a turbulent time by someone who was in the very eye of the rock 'n' roll hurricane." — Sydney Morning Herald "Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs! but life was far from glamorous. The ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton speaks out in this compelling autobiography." — The London Sunday Times "There are so many wonderful stories in Pattie Boyd's life: Falling in love with a Beatle. Falling in love with another famous rock star! Eric Clapton! and being serenaded with 'Wonderful Tonight' . . . "But there is much that is excruciating in her life story." Boyd "was taught by her parents that she didn't deserve to be loved; she was told by her husbands that she wasn't worth very much! but here she is: not dead! not on drugs! not an alcoholic! but a survivor." — London Daily Mail “Will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal.” — Entertainment Weekly “Boyd finally answers some of those questions [about George Harrison and Eric Clapton]–but on her own terms.” —USA Today “Sixties model Pattie Boyd opens up about her rocky relationships with two of music’s most famed performers.” —Harper’s Bazaar Informationen zum Autor Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story, from her tumultuous childhood and the beginning of her modeling career to her marriages with George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and shares exclusive photographs of her life in the sixties and beyond “A charming, lively, and seductive book.”— The New York Times Book Review “[ Wonderful Tonight ] will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal.”— Entertainment Weekly This is my truth, which may not necessarily be as others remember it. But if my story is to have any validity, I have to tell the truth as I see it. In Wonderful Tonight, iconic photographer Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence and reveals 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. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day’s Night. Ten days later, a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old Pattie Boyd, this was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles’ inner circle—a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and a veritable who’s who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the music-making, and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Linda and Paul McCartney, Cynthia and John Lennon, Maureen and Ringo Starr, and especially with her husband, George. It was a sweet, turbulent life, which took an unexpec...

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Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor

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• Autori: Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor
• Editore: Crown Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.05.2008
• EAN: 9780307407832
• ISBN: 978-0-307-40783-2
• Pagine: 321
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 204 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte