#pattie boyd archive

[memphisbluesagain]

Pattie Boyd 1961-1962 (Elizabeth Arden, Cherry Marshall and Norman Parkinson)

I couldn’t find much detailed information about lovely Pattie from 1961-1962, so I decided to put together this long form post. Please, do let me know if I’m missing anything. Thanks!

- June 1961, Pattie leaves school with three GCE O Level passes and is living at home in Wimbledon, with her single mother and four siblings

- Late 1961, Pattie’s mother pulls some strings and gets her daughter a job at the Elizabeth Arden hair salon in London

“After school, I got a job at Elizabeth Arden in Bond Street, London - because I wasn’t qualified to do anything and my mum knew the CEO there.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

- In the new year, Pattie moves to London and begins working as a ‘shampoo girl’ / ‘trainee beautician’ on a small wage of £4.50 per week - which roughly translates to £97.53 as of 2023

“I thought: ‘I must get out, I must try and be independent’ - so I got a job and shared a flat with about five other girls.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I shampooed people’s hair and took their coats. I was a general dogsbody, but I must say that it was terribly glamorous because it was where I first saw fabulous magazines - like Vogue, Tatler and Harper’s Bazaar.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“The job at Elizabeth Arden was deadly boring. I was training to be a beautician, but my heart wasn’t in it and I’m not sure I would have made the grade. Elizabeth Arden herself came in one day and berated me for my makeup. She didn’t like the black pencil under my eyes; it was not the ‘Elizabeth Arden’ look, she informed me.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- Early 1962, Pattie had been working at the salon for roughly two months, until a Cherry Marshall Model Agency staffer took a special interest in her look

“A client who worked for Honey magazine asked me if I’d ever thought of becoming a model.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“Imagine my excitement when a client came into the salon one day and asked if I had ever thought of being a model. I said: ‘No, but I certainly could.’” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- The following day, Pattie was scheduled for a test shoot

“When I arrived, she had arranged for her in-house photographer, Anthony Norris, to take some test shots of me. He had set up some lights in a little studio and she gave me a couple of outfits to wear - I remember a beret and having to look sultry, smoking Gitanes. [a French brand of unfiltered cigarettes] They were black and white, moody shots, with a bit of a Parisian feel.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- Anthony Norris sends Pattie along to a secretary at Cherry Marshall Model Agency and a personal meeting with Cherry Marshall herself is arranged - Pattie was signed to a modelling contract the very same day

“A successful model has just got to be strict with herself and lay off all fattening foods. That means no bread, butter, spaghetti or sweets! Watch out for ‘puppy fat spread’ - eat proper meals at regular times, with lots of lean meat and green vegetables.” - Pattie Boyd (April, 1965 - Letter from London)

“My fairy godmother phoned Cherry Marshall, who then ran one of the top model agencies and she said she was sending me to her. Anthony Norris went with me and told Cherry he thought she should take me on.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“My secretary brought Pattie’s picture into me and told me Pattie was waiting outside. ‘I’ll see her’ I said - and there was Pattie, a shy 17-year-old who when she spoke, bubbles with impish charm. It would have been a mistake to change a thing about her. All we needed was to groom her rebellious hair and slim down her puppy fat. She started training immediately, the following Monday.” - Cherry Marshall, 1964

“She was shy until she started talking and then she bubbled over with enthusiasm, as she spoke of her ambition to be a model: ‘I know I’m a bit plump - but I can’t stop eating sweets!’ I said: ‘Pattie, from now on you cut out all sweets - and I want you to report on Monday at the school for training’. I wanted her rebellious hair groomed into a straight gleaming bob and she had to be taught how to apply photographic make-up. Nothing else should be changed. The name was right, the look was right and it would have been crazy to do anything to subdue her sparkling personality.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

- Pattie attends Cherry Marshall’s modelling school - graduating within three short months

“So that’s the advice that I’d pass on to all of you who dream of becoming models: train at a school that has proved itself - not just one of those places that give you a paper diploma and nothing else - and don’t try to sell yourself when you have qualified. Let your agent do that.” - Pattie Boyd (April, 1965 - Letter from London)

- Pattie attends test shoots and works to build her portfolio - unpaid

“I knew I had a winner - everyone in the office agreed with me and they immediately swung into action. New pictures were taken, photographers and magazines informed, casting agents bombarded, press alerted. Here, we told them with absolute confidence that Pattie Boyd was the girl for the swinging sixties.” - Cherry Marshall, 1978

“Finding an agency was easy; finding a job was the hard part.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“We were too experienced to expect things to happen overnight, but we were impatient because Pattie was already seventeen and that wasn’t the youngest anymore. All we needed was to get one top photographer mad about her and she was made, but few of them would risk using an absolutely new girl on a job. They’d take test shots to find out what she was like and give her pictures for her portfolio, but no money. It was invaluable experience, but Pattie had to earn her living and we didn’t have much time.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“My agent would phone me last thing in the afternoon and tell me my jobs for the next day and my diaries would be quite full. But not to begin with - I had to work quite hard, going around to photographer’s studios and showing them my portfolio.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

[Rayment Kirby, 1962]

“Everyday I would go out with a list of photographer’s names and addresses and trudge around with my portfolio, hoping they would like what they saw and use me on a job. And if one did, I would try very hard to get him to give me some prints at a low rate, so that I could add them to my portfolio. I must have travelled on every bus and tube in London and when I was out of money, I walked. My diary for those days is full of IOUs for the odd fiver.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Within three months her diary began to fill up and she (Pattie) was in constant demand.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“If I had a job, I had a big, tall bag - no wheels in those days - with dark shoes, light-coloured shoes, all sorts of jewellery, wigs and hairpieces.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I was lucky. The trekking around worked and soon my diary was full of jobs. Modelling was fun. I loved trying on clothes and fiddling with my hair and makeup. We had to do it ourselves - there were no hair stylists or makeup artists and certainly no chauffeur-driven cars to ferry us around. We were not celebrities in the way that today’s top models are. For advertising jobs, we even had to bring our own accessories. I have my old appointment diaries about what I had to take to a shoot. Usually, it was light and dark court shoes, flatties, gloves, costume jewellery, hats or caps, boots, makeup, wigs and hair pieces. You could spot a model a mile off from the heavy bags that she was carrying.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“I went on to do lots of lovely shoots, although I never enjoyed posing for Freeman’s catalogues. They’d book you in for three or four days in a row, which meant lots of money, but the clothes were hideous and far too big - they had to have clips on the back.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I rang Norman Parkinson, the king of them all - and asked if he’d see her. A model had to be really good before he could be approached, particularly as he was not impressed by an agent’s idea of who was photogenic. We knew that, superficially, Pattie had certain drawbacks - she was un-modelly in the accepted sense, her face was too round and she had a gap in her front teeth. She came back to us in tears, eyes swimming with disappointment, all set to give up. She finally blurted out: ‘He asked me if it’s fashionable these days to look like a rabbit!’” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“One day I went to see the great Norman Parkinson. He looked at my book, then looked at me and said: ‘Come back when you’ve learned how to do your hair and makeup properly’ I felt so humiliated.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Seeing myself in magazines was so exciting. I couldn’t wait to show my mother and she was totally amazed, saying: ‘How on earth did you do that?’ - she had no idea that I’d been trampling the streets trying to get jobs and hopping on buses and trains to persuade photographers to take pictures of me.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

- Late 1962, Pattie began working for Honey magazine, which led to many other opportunities...

I will try to make a Pattie Boyd 1963-1964 long post soon! :)

[fornpt1]

Pattie and George🤎

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Sweet Jane Asher as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, July 19th 1965🌺

📸Shutterstock (The Hollywood Archive), eBay auction listing, 16 magazine and the many faces of Jane Asher!

The whole story of Paul and Jane, 16 magazine!🌼

Despite the fact that she is a sophisticated and worldly person, she is still very human and understanding towards other people. Maybe this is one of the reasons she is so popular with the Beatles tans. Of course, being loved by Beatle People can have its side effects, for there are many times when Jane worries if she is noticed and liked because of herself, her talent and her work-or because she is a "part" of Paul McCartney. She agrees that just about everyone who likes Paul would be inclined to like those around him, but she secretly hopes that she can carve her name in the heavens of the bright stars by using just her very own talent!🌷

Paul and Jane are well suited to each other, as both are mature and straightforward and, under all their charm, have a take-it-or-leave-it attitude which gains them considerable respect from the press and the fans🌸

Well, Paul has bought that magnificent house in the middle of London and it is time to face the fact that he certainly doesn't plan to live there all by himself. The fans who really love Paul wouldn't want it that way, anyway-and those fans who can't accept Jane as a part of Paul's life don't really love him as much as they pretend to. He has given much, almost all, of himself to the public. That public should be only too glad to give Paul all the happiness he can find🌱

What about Beatle girls Maureen Starr and Pattie Boyd? What does the future hold for them? In the January issue of 16 once again re-enter Beatle World and find out the truth about these two lovelies and the idolized men in their lives. The January issue of 16 will go on sale at your newsstand on November 23rd🍀

Via @ladyjaneasher on Instagram🪴

[ladyjaneasherr]

Sweet Jane Asher as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, July 19th 1965. ❤️

📸: Shutterstock ( The Hollywood Archive), eBay auction listing, 16 magazine and the many faces of Jane Asher!

The whole story of Paul and Jane, 16 magazine!

Despite the fact that she is a sophisticated and worldly person, she is still very human and understanding towards other people. Maybe this is one of the reasons she is so popular with the Beatles fans. Of course, being loved by Beatle People can have its side effects, for there are many times when Jane worries if she is noticed and liked because of herself, her talent and her work-or because she is a "part" of Paul McCartney. She agrees that just about everyone who likes Paul would be inclined to like those around him, but she secretly hopes that she can carve her name in the heavens of the bright stars by using just her very own talent!

Paul and Jane are well suited to each other, as both are mature and straightforward and, under all their charm, have a take-it-or-leave-it attitude which gains them considerable respect from the press and the fans.

Well, Paul has bought that magnificent house in the middle of London and it is time to face the fact that he certainly doesn't plan to live there all by himself. The fans who really love Paul wouldn't want it that way, anyway-and those fans who can't accept Jane as a part of Paul's life don't really love him as much as they pretend to. He has given much, almost all, of himself to the public. That public should be only too glad to give Paul all the happiness he can find.

What about Beatle girls Maureen Starr and Pattie Boyd? What does the future hold for them? In the January issue of 16 once again re-enter Beatle World and find out the truth about these two lovelies and the idolized men in their lives. The January issue of 16 will go on sale at your newsstand on November 23rd.

[phoenixqueen07]

Gynandrous : having both male and female reproductive organs

It is 1967 and the Summer of Love in Swinging London. And love is in the air!

Roggie is a high profile fashion model and the most famous gynandrous/intersex person in England. She is best friends with Pattie Boyd and moves among the elite of the London social scene.

Brian is a noted songwriter and musician in British music. And one of the most eligible bachelors.

When they finally meet sparks fly and a romance blossoms. Roggie is smitten and taken in by Brian's gentle nature and intelligence. And Brian is done in by Roggie's wit and humor and those dazzling blue eyes. He is also surprised and delighted by what he encounters in her bed!

Written by @beatlegirl1968

Beta’ed by @pumpkinlilyao3

Art by @phoenixqueen07

[maureenforever]

I'm obsessed with the idea of George and Maureen... here's some fanfiction I found....

No Love Of Their Own (3729 words) by Withthebeatlesgirls Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Beatles (Band) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Maureen Cox/George Harrison, Pattie Boyd/George Harrison, Maureen Cox/Ringo Starr Characters: Maureen Cox, George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Ringo Starr Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Sad Ending, maureen pov, I don't follow the timeline of their actual affair, so not really historically accurate, also mo calls Ringo Ritchie because thats what she called him irl, she didn't really ever call him ringo, incase anyone didn't know that Summary: Maureen has been hurting over her marriage to Ringo breaking down, she takes comfort in the man she believes understands what she is going through.

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison and Pattie Boyd arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on 1 August 1967 (photo by AP Photo); George and Ravi Shankar at Kinnara School of Music a few days later (photos by Ed Caraeff, Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images, Cummings Archives/Redferns and ImageCollect).

“Recently Harrison along with the other three Beatles signed a petition to the English Government urging the legalization of marijuana. The petition was also signed by 61 other British citizens and was addressed to the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins. The advertisement appeared in a full-page story in the London Times. When asked about his reason for supporting the legalization of marijuana, Harrison said, ‘I think if somebody can go and buy a crate of Johnny Walker whiskey and drink that and be perfectly within the law then I think somebody, particularly in his own home, should be able to smoke a marijuana cigarette. You know, I think marijuana is only as bad as ordinary cigarettes or alcohol or tea or coffee or any of those things. ‘They’re all drugs, all stimulants you know. The thing is to define between something that is merely a stimulant and something that makes your physical body crave for it. There’s no comparison between marijuana and heroin.’ Harrison went on to say, ‘I think the use of marijuana is increasing everywhere in the world. It’s not just America and Britain, but it’s everywhere, and it’s not just marijuana, you know, marijuana is the thing that society has picked up on, but that’s not really the problem. The thing is that the young people want something more out of life than just the physically gained things that they get out of society. They’re looking for something more, and it’s a natural part of evolution that’s taking place.’” - KRLA Beat, 26 August 1967 (x)

Q: "George, given the drug experimentation of the 60's, how do you feel about the legalitzation of pot?" george_harrison_live: "Well, I saw someone on TV last night pulling out huge loads of pot out of various fields in California. My feeling is..." george_harrison_live: "as long as you can go into a store and buy" george_harrison_live: "whiskey" george_harrison_live: "bourbon" george_harrison_live: "and all the rest of it" george_harrison_live: "then, a little grass is nothing." george_harrison_live: "the authorities are just causing the price to be high — 'scuse the pun." - Yahoo web chat, 15 February 2001

[pattie-remembers]

“I love those big shoulder pads, the glamour of hair, false eyelashes,” Boyd said of the 1980s

TONY BOCK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES

ENTERTAINMENT

Pattie Boyd, model of the Swinging Sixties, prefers 1980s fashion

David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent

Wednesday October 05 2022, 12.01am, The Times 

She may be the face of the Swinging Sixties and Seventies, as well as swinging on the arm of two of its icons, but for Pattie Boyd the 1980s were just better.

The former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton had a ringside seat for the Beatles in the 1960s and toured with Clapton in the 1970s. Yet yesterday Boyd, 78, told the Henley Literary Festival: “The Eighties were absolutely fantastic.

“It was so full-on. I love those big shoulder pads, the glamour of hair, false eyelashes, it was absolutely super glamorous.”

Harrison and Boyd pose for a portrait in 1966

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Boyd with Eric Clapton

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Boyd, who was pursued by Clapton, right, while still with Harrison, said there had been no antipathy between the two

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At the British Phonographic Awards in the Grosvenor House Hotel, 1987

CLIVE DIX/SHUTTERSTOCK

If she could relive a moment, it would be travelling to Cornwall on a train with the Beatles where for ten hours she “listened to them play music and run around laughing and having fun”.

Boyd, who was pursued by Clapton while still with Harrison, said there had been no antipathy between the two — although she had been nervous about Harrison’s reaction to Clapton writing the song Layla for her.

However, Harrison attended the party after she married Clapton in 1979. “Musicians absolutely adore each other because of how they play, because of their music,” she said. “And I think that transcends social relationships.”

Not all musicians found it as easy to forgive. Bryan Ferry had turned up at the party, shortly after Jerry Hall, his ex-fiancee, had started dating the Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. “He said, ‘Is Jerry here?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Is Mick here?’ I said, ‘Yes.’

“He turned round and went back into his car and took half the drive with him. Furious, absolutely furious.”

[harrisonstories]

George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, John Lennon, and Cynthia Lennon on holiday in Tahiti, 1964. 2/2

Source: Michael Ochs Archives

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[memphisbluesagain]

More rares of George Harrison & Pattie Boyd from the day after their wedding - so cute

[littlequeenies]

Beautiful Pattie Boyd modelling portrait circa 1963.

From the great instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/reelartpress/

Their caption says: "Reel Art Press are very pleased to announce that we have started working with Pattie on a book of photographs of her from the very start of her modelling career and photos taken by her during the swinging 60’s and beyond, featuring previously unpublished images by leading photographers and unseen artefacts from Pattie's personal archives. To be published October 2022."

[ludmilachaibemachado]

September 2, 1969 - Mal Evans drove Pattie Boyd, George Harrison and the Dylans to Heathrow Airport for Bob and Sara's flight back to New York. From Fiery Creations Archives. Published in the book, Stealing Dylan From Woodstock, by Ray Foulk🌸🌸🌸

Something About the Beatles' Girls FB🌸

[delightfullyatomicfest]

Paul McCartney / Beatles books on the Internet archive (free and legal)

Free to access, just need to sign up for account then can borrow for an hour as many times as needed.

(couple more added 13 June 2021)

Beatles

The Beatles Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies (1968): https://archive.org/details/beatlesauthorize00davi

Beatles Monthly Book (1963-1969). Link to first one: https://archive.org/details/beatles-monthly-01_20210217

The true story of the Beatles by Billy Shepherd (1964): https://archive.org/details/truestoryofbeatl00shep [not yet read, of interest due to date]

The Beatles : the real story by Julius Fast (1968): https://archive.org/details/beatlesrealstory00fast [of interest due to date]]

Shout! by Philip Norman (1982): https://archive.org/details/shoutbeatlesinth00phil_1 [know your enemy etc etc]

Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald (1997): https://archive.org/details/revolutioninhead0000macd_v3d6

Two of us : John Lennon & Paul McCartney behind the myth by Geoffrey Giuliano (1999): https://archive.org/details/twoofusjohnlenno0000giul [very questionable author]

The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz (2005): https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit

Added June 2021: Can’t Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould (2007): https://archive.org/details/cantbuymelovebea00goul

Lewisohn isn't available on there.

Paul

Many Years from Now by Barry Miles (1998): https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneyman00mile

McCartney by Chris Salewicz (1986): https://archive.org/details/mccartney00sale

Paul McCartney now & then by Tony Barrow (2006): https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneynow00robi

McCartney by Christopher Sandford (2007): https://archive.org/details/mccartney0000sand_l3m5

Paul McCartney: A Life by Peter Ames Carlin (2009):  https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneylif0000carl

Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes (2010): https://archive.org/details/fabintimatelifeo0000soun

Conversations with McCartney by Paul Du Noyer (2015): https://archive.org/details/conversationswit0000duno/page/n1/mode/2up

John

Dakota days : the untold story of John Lennon's final years by John Green (1984): https://archive.org/details/dakotadays00john_cr2

John by Cynthia Lennon (2005): https://archive.org/details/john00lenn

George

Wonderful tonight : George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and me by Pattie Boyd (2007): https://archive.org/details/wonderfultonight00boyd/

Ringo

Postcards from the Boys by Ringo (2004): (https://archive.org/details/postcardsfromboy0000star_c5h5 [<3 <3 <£]

Associates

A cellarful of noise by Brian Epstein (1964): https://archive.org/details/cellarfulofnoise00epst/

The love you make : an insider's story of the Beatles by Peter Brown (1983): https://archive.org/details/loveyoumakein00brow [of burned in a fire by Paul and Linda fame]

Magical mystery tours : my life with the Beatles by Tony Bramwell (2005): https://archive.org/details/magicalmysteryto00bram/

Miss O'Dell : my hard days and long nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the women they loved by Chris O’Dell (2009): https://archive.org/details/missodellmyhardd0000odel

John, Paul, George, Ringo & me : the real Beatles story by Tony Barrow (2011): https://archive.org/details/johnpaulgeorgeri0000barr

Linda McCartney by Danny Fields (2000): https://archive.org/details/lindamccartney00fiel

Added June 2021: The longest cocktail party : an insider's diary of the Beatles, their million-dollar Apple empire, and its wild rise and fall by Richard DiLello (1983): https://archive.org/details/longestcocktailp00dile

Note to self: want to find ‘Love Me Do’ book from 1964