Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me - Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor

Pattie Boyd served as the muse for two great musicians. She is the subject of George Harrison's "Something" and Eric Clapton's "Layla." Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" is a song about waiting for Pattie as she prepared to go out for the evening. Pattie is the the product of two broken homes. Her first father literally abandoned her. Her second father was emotionally distant and abusive. Without releasing herself of culpability for her own choices, she comments on how her upbringing negatively influenced her adult life. She met George on the set of "Hard Day's Night." Later, when her relationship with George became strained, she was pursued by Eric Clapton. George's distance and a string of infidelities - with, among others, Ronnie Wood's wife and Ringo's wife, Maureen - finally led Pattie to leave George for Eric. Eric's addictive personality, plus his womanizing, put strains on the relationship that finally led to another divorce. Pattie ends the book by commenting on how she has finally come to value herself for her own achievements and not simply as the wife of a famous rock star.