Best Selling Books by Pattie Boyd

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ''70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a 40-year silence, telling how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century. She met the Beatles in 1964 in the cast of A Hard Day''s Night. Ten days later George Harrison proposed. For 20-year-old Boyd, it was the beginning of a rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles'' inner circle. She describes the dynamics of the group, and the memories she has of Paul and Linda, Cynthia and John, Ringo and Maureen, and especially the years with her husband, George. Then her turbulent life took another unexpected turn with a passionate letter from Eric Clapton. Now the high-profile model whose face epitomized the swinging London scene of the 1960s, a woman who inspired Harrison''s song "Something" and Clapton''s anthem "Layla, " has wrriten her book.--From publisher description.

An extraordinary visual memoir from Pattie Boyd—model, photographer, and muse to rock ‘n roll royalty. The former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd is perhaps the most famous muse of all time, inspiring Harrison''s "Something" and Eric Clapton''s "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight." Swept up into the height of Beatlemania as a young model, Boyd captured endless photographs of her years with the band, and later with Clapton. In Pattie Boyd: My Life Through A Lens, Boyd offers candid and intimate photographs of rock royalty and the elite social circles of the 60s and 70s, and also shares the drawings, paintings, and mementos collected from a life shared with pop-culture icons. Alongside it all are Boyd''s own stirring reflections, giving a look into the golden age of rock ''n roll that only a woman at the center of it all could provide.

Autorretrato de una de las musas más destacadas de los revolucionarios años sesenta. Modelo y casada sucesivamente con George Harrison y Eric Clapton, pese a todo Pattie Boyd no siempre llevó una vida de glamour: la falta de autoestima y las drogas fueron el contrapunto dramático de unos años inolvidables.

What is it like to grow up in Kenya in the 1950s with lions and giraffe roaming in the garden? To be a child in a household where no one spoke at mealtimes, to be left alone and bewildered at boarding school at the age of eight, and to find your father had been replaced by a new one when you came home one holiday? These are just some of the memories from Pattie Boyd''s extraordinary childhood. She went on to become an icon of the Sixties: a top model, a Beatle wife, an acclaimed photographer, Eric Clapton''s wife and the inspiration for some of the most beautiful love songs ever written -- including the timeless Layla and Wonderful tonight.