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Famous Muses & Groupies in Rock Music Pt. 34

MUSE: Pattie Boyd (full name Patricia Anne Boyd)

Pattie truly needs no introduction, but here’s one anyway, lol. Pattie was born on March 17th, 1944 in Somerset, England. Like a lot of girls born on St. Patrick’s Day, she was given the name Patricia as a reference. She was the first born child of Colin and Diana Boyd, and has three younger siblings: Colin Jr., Jenny and Paula. Later after Colin and Diana divorced, Diana re-married and Pattie gained four more half-siblings. Both Jenny and Paula are former models and music muses like their big sister. From 1948-53, the Boyd family lived in Nairobi, Kenya while Colin was discharged from the Royal Air Force. Pattie and her siblings were primarily educated at private schools after the family moved back to England, with Pattie working as a shampoo girl at a salon after graduation. It was there that a client who worked for Honey Magazine convinced Pattie to give modeling a try. Soon the young blonde girl was being hired for advertisements, TV commercials, fashion spreads, runways/catwalks and magazine covers by 1963. She was a favorite of photographer David Bailey and a muse to designer Ossie Clark. Even film director Richard Lester was somewhat inspired by Pattie after he worked with her on a snack commercial and then gave her a minor role in his film A Hard Day’s Night (1964). She also supplied a cameo in Lester’s follow-up zany comedy The Knack…and How to Get It (1965).

Not only is Pattie considered one of the original supermodels of the 1960s next to Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, but she is also the quintessential music muse in classic rock. During the filming of A Hard Day’s Night, Pattie’s co-star, George Harrison of the Beatles, asked her out. Her popularity then soared even higher as the girlfriend of the most famous guitarist of the British Invasion. George and Pattie were THE power couple of rock music scene in the ‘60s, and lived the high life of Swinging London. The love birds eventually married on January 21st, 1966, and spent most of their relationship living on the properties Kinfauns in Surrey and later Friar Park in Oxfordshire. On the exterior, Pattie had it all: more photoshoot and ad offers than ever, four Vogue Magazine covers in 1969, an attractive, charming rockstar husband, and friendships with fellow muses and stars like Marianne Faithfull and Jane Asher. Pattie and Jenny even ran their own fashion boutique in 1968 called Juniper in Chelsea Market, after the song ‘Jennifer Juniper,’ Donovan wrote for Jenny. Like most musician wives/girlfriends, Pattie was at many of the band’s events and shows. She, along with Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Starkey, traveled with the Beatles on location for the production of Help! (1965), the band’s second film with Lester. She was also at the live 1967 TV taping of ‘All You Need Is Love;’ appeared in the music videos for ‘A Day in the Life’ (1967) and ‘Something’ (1969); was at the movie premiere of Yellow Submarine (1968); modeled for Apple Boutique—owned by the band in ’67-68; visited Rishikesh, India with the band on their spring 1968 spiritual retreat, and so on.

But on the interior, George & Pattie had almost as many problems as they did perks. Only a couple years into their marriage, Pattie discovered she was infertile. In her 2007 memoir Wonderful Tonight, Pattie says that George wanted to start a family eventually and didn’t want to adopt. He also told her she should quit modeling when they got engaged, but she was still interested in her career. A year into dating, the two had an unfortunate experience where they drank spiked tea with LSD at a party, and the final year of their relationship George was a cokehead. Though both were interested in learning about Indian culture at first, George became obsessed with playing sitar and practicing Hinduism to the point of it effecting their sex life. And of course, George and his bandmates still had groupies on tours and in the studio, which Pattie couldn’t accompany him on because of her fashion jobs. George later had a quick affair with model Charlotte Martin in 1968 while Charlotte was spending the week in their house. In 1973, George & Pattie participated in a wife-swap with Ronnie & Krissy Wood, with George and Krissy going on vacation together, and Ronnie and Pattie staying behind at Friar Park. The final straw, as Pattie considers, was George sleeping with bandmate Ringo Starr’s wife Maureen in 1974. The Harrisons officially divorced in June 1977.

But the biggest instigator and infamous blow to the Harrison marriage was George’s ‘best friend’ Eric Clapton. A guitar god on stage and in the studio, but kinda a douche at home. In 1968, Eric grew strongly attracted to Pattie, to the point that he dumped live-in girlfriend Charlotte Martin because he couldn’t stop thinking about Pattie. In Wonderful Tonight, Pattie suggests the main reason Charlotte slept with George was out of spite from the break-up. Naturally Pattie denied Eric in 1969 when he first declared his love (though in Eric’s own 2007 memoir, Clapton, he claims they’d already made out at this point). Rather than move on, he spent six months shacking up and doing drugs with Pattie’s 17-year-old sister Paula. After his fling with Paula, Eric spent a year with his new band, Derek & the Dominos, composing and recording the 1970 album ‘Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs.’ Every track, excluding the covers, was written about Pattie. It sucks Eric was basically a creep during all this because, IMO, ‘Layla’ is the great rock anthem of all time, and the rest of the album is amazing.

Pattie eventually did officially reciprocate Eric’s feelings in 1975, and they married on March 27th, 1979. Except that Eric was stoned or drunk their whole relationship, carried on with groupies on the road, began seeing future wife Lory del Santo while still with Pattie, was distant emotionally, etc. Basically a repeat of her marriage to George, but 100x worse. The worst moment was probably when Pattie was still living with George, and Eric threatened to snort a bag of heroin if she didn’t leave George (why do people like them together??). Pattie also attempted to get pregnant in 1984 with vitro fertilization, but that only caused two miscarriages. :( She moved out of their house in 1987, and filed for divorce a year later.

So what was the consolation for all this bullshit for two decades? How about a dozen of the best songs ever written. Forget ‘Layla,’ what about ‘Bell Bottom Blues,’ and ‘Wonderful Tonight?’ Or ‘I Need You?’ Or ‘If I Needed Someone?’ Or ‘For You Blue’ and ‘Old Brown Shoe?’ ‘Something??’ Yeah, I know George denied the last one, but LBR, he down played a lot of Beatles stuff after he married and had a kid with Olivia Arias. So while Pattie could hold a grudge and completely ignore her musical impact like Jane Asher, she’s owned up to the title of rock’s greatest muse; despite years of jealous fangirls and sexist fanboys. #kween Since the 1990s, Pattie’s been with third husband Rod Weston and has toured with two photography exhibits in 2006-2010 and 2011 on her own photos she’s shot. She’s also appeared in various documentaries like “The Beatles Anthology” (1995-96), Living in the Material World (2011) and Life in 12 Bars (2017). In her book, she retrospectively called George the love of her life, and felt Eric was probably only obsessed with her out of a musical jealousy with George.

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“She was his security blanket, his inspiration, his wife and mother of his kids. She was the one who got Paul off his ass when he was having to sue the other Beatles. His heart was broken. He would've sat up there in Scotland and just become a drunk. If she hadn't got on his case, none of it would have ever happened. She was more than an important element, she was a necessity.”🌼

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Paul and Linda McCartney after a press conference at Beverly Hills Hotel, California🌼

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Linda is holding one of her photo books🌼

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Things I Like • Printed Tin-Plate Sign • Sandie Shaw Shoes • 1968

This pop-art and art-deco style printed tin-plate sign was made for the fashion shop set up by the British pop-singer, Sandie Shaw. Shaw is best remembered as the singer of Puppet on a String, the song that won Eurovision in 1967. Sandie famously performed bare-foot, due to her long slender feet and the difficulty of finding suitably comfortable footwear.

Sandie was included, as a song-bird, in John D Green’s famous photo-book, Birds of Britain (1967)

Birds of Britain details many of the famous British women from the Swinging Sixties in lavish photographs.  The photos include Charlotte Rampling (strangely sitting in a fruit bowl), Pattie Boyd, Susannah York, Ingrid Boulting, Julie Christie, Sarah Miles, Jane Asher, Mary Quant, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Barry, Lady Curzon, Jean Shrimpton’s younger sister Chrissie, Hayley and Susan Mills, Lulu, Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw. There are singers, dancers, models, actresses, designers, socialites, artists, and various performers and personalities from the decade.

The metal sign was designed by David Fairbrother-Roe and made by Polypops ltd. It’s a classic bit of pop-art Britain and swinging London.

Sandie established a fashion shop and a line fo clothes and shoes for her sort of girl-about-town.

Lovely.

PS 

This style found its most complete expression in the massive Biba store in Kensington. More recently, this style has formed the basis of much of Victoria’s Secret success.

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Paul and Jane🌺♥️

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“If you look at it very straight, very conventionally, it was a quite mad thing to do, to put a playpen on the top deck of the bus and put all the children in there while driving around Europe. It was not what you'd expect from a normal band. But we weren't a normal band." Paul McCartney🌼

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1. Paul and Linda McCartney inside the 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour bus, and 2. outside in front of it. Alamy🌼

3. Paul and Linda with baby Stella on the 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour bus' top deck. From the Wingspan book🌼

4. The 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour bus. From Wingspan book🌼

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Jane Birkin, London, UK, 23rd April 1968🌷

Photo by Reg Burkett (Daily Express)📸🌷

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"Eric's manager, Roger Forrester, decided it would be fun to do a tour of Europe by train. At one point we were on the Orient Express, which was fantastic and different. This is us waiting at the station. It was a two-week tour and it got crazy. The Danish promoter was kidnapped by the roadies who did naughty things to his passport, eventually tossing it out of the window of a moving train.”🌸

These photographs are of Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton in Munich🌸

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Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman🍁

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Pattie Boyd and George Harrison on their honeymoon in 1966🌸

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Celia Hammond photographed for the Queen magazine cover for the 19 June 1962 issue 61 years ago, by @norman_parkinson @iconicimagesnet💐

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Sharon Tate🍁

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Just love them!💕💕💕

The Ronettes performing “Is This What I Get For Loving You?” on Hullabaloo, April 1965.

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Paul, Linda & Stella in Denmark 1976🌼

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cynthialennondaily Exclusive New Book Excerpt: Cynthia's Surprise 1994 Canadian Reunion with Dot Rhone!🌻

There is a brand new edition of @beatlesandcanada by the brilliant John Arnone. This new edition of his book includes new pictures, detailed stories and so much more about Canada's impressive history with the Beatles. Especially this amazing story of Dot Rhône and Cynthia meeting again years after. With an even more impressive photograph🍁

Be sure to follow @beatlesandcanada for more🌻

Copyright 2023 John Robert Arnone, Used With Permission🍁

Photo by Barb Marx from Us and Them: Canada, Canadians and The Beatles🌻

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Monica Vitti (📸Pierluigi Praturlon, 1969)🥀

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