Great Perspective, Written Well Enough

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	• Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor Three Rivers Press, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 240 reviews view larger image
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Not Worth The Wait

I have to agree with many other reviewers. Although I was born in 1965, I became a huge George fan and always envied Pattie's life and looks. It was very interesting to read about her childhood and early modeling career but we want to read about her as a Beatle wife and That Triangle. I was pulling my hair out at her jumping from one year to another. one minute a story is a married story, the next is a premarried story, etc. Unlike the official review, I see no "scandals" that I didn't already know. Sure we read about a few drug stories and a cook's meal or two, but what about any explanation for her leaving George for a very seedy-at-the-time Eric? Pattie was always an enviable muse, but when she talked about trying various drugs like LSD because as she writes "I would try anything!" I lost a lot of respect. She speaks about that in such a flippant way as if she's talking about riding a roller coaster or trying calamari. This woman must have 50,000 pages of unknown Beatle stories, and they don't all have to be sordid or hurtful, and we don't read much of anything. We just wanted a book of new things!
I bought the book as a pre-order last fall, and I am sorry to say I cannot remember much else about it. If people had asked her for fifteen years to write her story, this could not possibly be "it."

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LOVED IT

HI! I love the Beatles so this book was a must have. It is nice to hear about that stage of their lives from someone one who was very close to the Beatles. Very nicely written and the information was good. That is to say, that the book, of course tells you things you already know and confirms those things. But...you also get to read about the details you never really knew about and her feelings. One was... I heard he was kind of rotten but I was surprised how awful Eric C. was to her.So that was a surprise. Anyway I recommend this book. I have read a lot of other Beatle books etc. But to me it is always best to read a book from someone who was directly associated with them.

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Great Perspective, Written Well Enough

This book is written in a plain and understandable way. Not massively insightful but her perspective makes it very meaningful as 60s rock history. Pattie names names like few others so you can launch lots of research from her work. Being a woman's account, she tends to focus on ambience such as the food, the fashions, the wallpaper, the furniture, etc. Her memories benefit from having a diary but her depictions of John, Paul & Ringo as individuals are not very sharp. For instance, John Lennon is hardly mentioned in this book.

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