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Wonderful Today: The Autobiography of Pattie Boyd [Hardcover]

Pattie Boyd , Penny Junor
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review; First Edition edition (23 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755316428
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755316427
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 96,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Absolutely gripping and gives more insight into the weirdness of rock-star life than anything I have ever read.'

(Lynn Barber, Telegraph )

'The most compelling rock autobiography ever'

(Mail on Sunday )

'Gripping'

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Mail on Sunday, August 12 2007

'The most compelling rock autobiography ever' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In this long-awaited autobiography of Pattie Boyd's life, including her two legendary ten-years-or-so marriages to two of rock's biggest names, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, co-author Penny Junor has managed to coax a great many interesting revelations and stories from a very private, somewhat reluctant and reticent Pattie. And so she is to be commended.

The book starts with a fairly unremarkable middle-class upbringing - even though she spends some of her early youth in Kenya, her father is disfigured in the war and her parents ultimately split up and she has to come to terms with a new 'wicked' stepfather, it all nevertheless seems very British and reserved.

Certainly, Pattie doesn't excel academically. But Pattie's rare beauty leads her into the modelling world which is the springboard to her encounters with the rich and famous, including George Harrison, where her looks and attractive personality immediately win him over. Even at the first meeting she is betrayed by her decent upbringing - she turns down a date with 'THE FAMOUS BEATLE' George Harrison because she already has a boyfriend. Not many young girls at the time would have given it a second thought. We also discover that Pattie had not even heard a Beatles album until then, so she shares something in common with Yoko Ono who also claimed to be totally unfamiliar with their work when she first 'bumped into' John.

We learn a great deal about her early cosy relationship with George and her dealings within the Beatles 'inner circle' and how the couple just drifted apart, Pattie feeling neglected. The surreal existence that was being a Beatles wife is made manifest, and it was enough to test the strongest of relationships. It's ironic that Pattie introduced George and The Beatles to the Maharishi and to meditation and chanting and it was this road, as well as 'experimentation' with drugs, that led to George and she becoming isolated and distant from each other. Pattie says that some relationships just have a natural time-span and this was one of them - they remained good friends.

The relationship with Clapton is much darker and tougher to fathom. He clearly loved her, but It's actually hard to read about some of the drink and drug-induced abuse and Pattie is to be congratulated on exorcising these particular demons. Clapton's unfaithfulness is probably par for the course for rock stars, but he would have retrieved some credibility and dignity if he had been seen to have done the decent thing financially when they eventually split up. There was no doubt that he could afford it and there's no doubting who has the moral high ground now.

It's odd that such an apparently ordinary and straight-laced girl, albeit of incredible beauty, should have appealed to these two very musical men and created such a fervour and passion, and to have inspired some of the greatest popular songs ever written.

Pattie claims that her 'failed' marriages and experience have made her a better person, and perhaps that's true. I like to think that people can take something from adversity and that it can have a positive 'purpose'. She now lives alone, although definitely not a lonely figure, and makes a living from photography (and now from writing.) Having seen and heard her recently at a publicity event, she certainly comes across as a grounded, decent, positive and happy person with no bitterness and a zest for life.

Not bad for a rock chick.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wonderful Today is fascinating--but only as far as it goes, and one wishes it went much further. So many aspects of Boyd's life could have made an entire book in of itself--her '60s modelling career, her inside view of Beatlemania, life post-Harrison with Clapton, life post-rock star wifedom. Instead each is discussed rather than detailed, so that often there is no more sense of being there than has been evidenced in past biographies of Harrison and Clapton. When Boyd does let us know how she perceived and felt things, the book is tough to put down, but she doesn't do it often enough. For instance, she tells us that Harrison was her soulmate but provides no evidence of how and why. She also refers to herself as "painfully shy" multiple times yet she somehow manages to strike up a dizzying number of friendships with intriguing people, famous and nonfamous. Boyd is apparently a charismatic soul; unfortunately that charisma isn't always evident from this at-time pedestrian book.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
It was okay 16 Sep 2007
Format:Hardcover
I've deliberately not read the other reviews on here because I don't want to be influenced at all. This is my view and of course once I've written it I will go and see how many others felt the same way.

I was very disappointed by this book. As lovely as she looks (and she still looks amazing) I found there to be a constant 'poor little me' thread running through this book. It seems she was a beautiful doormat and these rock stars well and truly wiped their feet on her. Or did they? With one breath she divulges yet another horrible/selfish thing that Clapton and Harrison did; in the next she is saying how wonderful they were and the loves of her life.

I also found some of the anecdotes quite confusing. She goes into flashback reverie and then, on the same page, brings us back to the present time and it becomes a little messy.

I've never read any bios of Harrison or Clapton so do not know if this is 100% accurate or the tale of someone who has re-written their past. Maybe if Clapton had been a bit more generous with the divorce settlement she would not have had to write this book.
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Nothing that hasn't been said before
Pattie Boyd was married first to George Harrison and then to Eric Clapton. Both had written classic songs about her including `Something' by George and `Wonderful Tonight by Eric. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Robin Webster
Pattie Boyd - Wonderful Today
I realy enjoyed this book, could not put it down. It was great insight to the vibrancy and style of London in the 1960s. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kay123
Wonderful memories
A very interesting picture of the swinging 60's from one of the people at the centre of things. Very surprising how silly and immature icons such as Eric Clapton and George... Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. K. Obeney
exciting read however.....
It was a very exciting read with some great stories that shows you life behind the scenes of rock start life. However i do have to say it wasn't very well written....
Published 13 months ago by angie
Wonderfully candid
I really enjoyed this book. I was a sixties teenager, an avid Beatles fan and it was a fab time to be young. Read more
Published 22 months ago by J. Bayliss
RUBBISH
Not the sort of book i usually read but she has interested me and i wanted to know about her. What a let down. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Dostoyevsky
WAG 1
I suppose that, these days, this lady would be a WAG. The subtitle says it: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and me. She was married to Harrison before taking up with Clapton. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2009 by Ian Millard
Best love triangle story!
What a great book, I read it in 3 days. I would highly recommend reading. It has some sad and funny bits in it and I think Pattie Boyd is great and although her mad life has had... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Maz
pattie boyd
great book great price. if you are a beatles fan and want an insight into their world during the sixties then this is an enlightening read.
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by Mrs. Margaret E. Miles
Fab!!
Bought this as I lived in london at this time and knew some of the places and people mentioned.
A thoroughly good read! Could not put it down! JW
Published on 20 July 2009 by J. Wilkinson
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