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On Mar 17, 1944: #PattieBoyd, English #model, #photographer and #author who married both George Harrison and Eric Clapton (not at the same time), born in Taunton, England.
#HappyBirthday #82 🥂✨🧁

50+ Music Dec 9

"Wonderful Tonight" is a song written and performed by English singer #EricClapton. The #ballad was included on Clapton's 1977 album #Slowhand. Clapton wrote the song on his 1974 #Martin D-28 guitar about #PattieBoyd. The female vocal harmonies on the song are provided by #MarcellaDetroit (then #MarcyLevy) and #YvonneElliman. It peaked at number 16 on the #Billboard Hot 100 on 15 July 1978, spending seven weeks in the top 40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprwkbzUX6g

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight [Official Live]

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Frank Böhmert Nov 3

Immer wieder putzig, Haight-Ashbury Anfang August 1967 als gruseliger Kurztrip für George Harrison & Pattie Boyd -

- diesmal erzählt in Spiegel-Geschichte 4/25 "Wahnsinn! - Wie sich der Umgang mit psychischen Problemen über die Jahrhunderte verändert hat":

"Angeblich noch am selben Abend schwor George, bis dahin neben John Lennon das Hippie-Idol und der Oberkiffer der legendären Kultband The Beatles, allem Drogenkonsum ab."

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#GeorgeHarrison #PattieBoyd #HaightAshbury

50+ Music Oct 24

"Wonderful Tonight" is a song written and performed by English singer #EricClapton. The #ballad was included on Clapton's 1977 album #Slowhand. Clapton wrote the song on his 1974 #Martin D-28 guitar about #PattieBoyd. The female vocal harmonies on the song are provided by #MarcellaDetroit (then #MarcyLevy) and #YvonneElliman. It peaked at number 16 on the #Billboard Hot 100 on 15 July 1978, spending seven weeks in the top 40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxAiUq8yn34

Eric Clapton- Wonderful Tonight (HQ)

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50+ Music Sep 15, 2025

"I Need You" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles from their 1965 album #Help It was written by #GeorgeHarrison, the group's lead guitarist, and was the second composition of his to be released by the Beatles. The track appears in their film Help!, in a scene filmed on #SalisburyPlain where the group were under military protection from a murderous cult. Harrison wrote "I Need You" about #PattieBoyd, the English model whom he married in January 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t24nX_sak8

I Need You (Remastered 2009)

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50+ Music May 22, 2025

"For You Blue" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles from their 1970 album #LetItBe. The track was written by #GeorgeHarrison as a love song to his wife, #PattieBoyd. It was also the #Bside to the "#LongAndWindingRoad" single, issued in many countries, but not Britain, and was listed with that song when the single topped the US #Billboard #Hot100 and Canada's national chart in June 1970. On the #CashBox Top 100 chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFHRaZERHg

For You Blue (Remastered 2009)

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Variety Mar 25, 2024

Pattie Boyd, Ex-Wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Sells Intimate Letters, Personal Archive for $3 Million-Plus at Auction
#Variety #News #GeorgeHarrison #PattieBoyd

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pattie-boyd-george-harrison-eric-clapton-sells-archive-million-1235951071/

Pattie Boyd, Wife to George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Sells Archive

Pattie Boyd's collection of personal memorabilia — including letters from ex-husbands Eric Clapton and George Harrison — has sold for over $3 million.

Variety

Sharon Gascoigne Mar 19, 2024

A #secondhandbookshop find today.

I'm curious to know more about #PattieBoyd as she's had such an interesting life and I imagine she's got plenty to tell in this book ☺️

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Jake has moved!Mar 18, 2024

Here's a cool 2018 Pattie Boyd interview by Taylor Swift.

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a22020940/taylor-swift-interviews-pattie-boyd/

#PattieBoyd #TaylorSwift

Taylor Swift Interviews Rock ’n’ Roll Icon Pattie Boyd on Songwriting, Beatlemania, & the Power of Being a Muse

Taylor Swift interviews Pattie Boyd about falling in love, surviving Beatlemania, and what it was really like being married to two of rock ’n’ roll’s biggest legends George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

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Thinking Munk Feb 27, 2024

don't telephone! send a letter.... that is much safer.

#EricClapton #Pattieboyd #ThinkingMunk