Wonderful Tonight

Book No: 5
Title: Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me
Author: Pattie Boyd
Genre: Memoir
Completed: 1/31/09
No. of Pages: 307
Rating: 2.5/5*****

What a huge disappointment this book was! Pattie Boyd was a 17 year old teenager, on her way to becoming a well known and in demand model (in the days before models were 'stars') when she met George Harrison on the set of A Hard Day’s Night. She subsequently married George and eventually divorced him and married Eric Clapton. She was the inspiration for three of the best love songs ever written, "Something" by Harrison and both "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. She lived through some of the most interesting times when London was the epicenter of everything happening in the '60's. So someone please tell me why her book was so damn boring???
This book reveals nothing and name drops incessantly, names that may not mean anything to those who didn't grow up in the '60's. My shopping list is more entertaining than this book. Stories are told but there is no emotion connected to anything. She is aware of her husband’s infidelities, yet never takes a stand against them; she just seems to float through life. Her marriage to Clapton was a nightmare, yet the stories she tells about this time are so cautiously retold that you get no sense of the torment she must have endured. Obviously there is/was something striking about this woman, yet nothing, but nothing comes across in this book. I was hoping to read something that might bring across the energy and a sense of the whirlwind she lived in, but it was an interesting story with little or no passion evident.