Pattie Boyd
Also known as Patricia Anne Boyd
English model, photographer (born 1944)
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- Un maravilloso presente
- Pattie Boyd
- Wonderful today
- Wonderful Tonight
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Acting · Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
Pattie Boyd is an English model and photographer, famously having been married to George Harrison, and then to Eric Clapton (and having inspired Derek And The Dominos song "Layla"). She has been married to Rod Weston since April 30, 2015.
Known for
- Twiggy — Self2025
- Miss O'Dell — Self2025
- The Beatles: Get Back — Self2021
- Meeting the Beatles in India — Self2020
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — Self (archive footage)2018
- The Beatles 1+2015
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World — Self2011
- The Beatles: Parting Ways — Self2009
- Kate Garraway's Life Stories — Self
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Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is a retired English model and photographer. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966, experiencing the height of the Beatles' popularity and sharing their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married mutual friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something", and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", and "Wonderful Tonight".
In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States). Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been exhibited.