Thursday, September 19, 2013

Let me introduce you to the Boyd Sisters

This is Paula, Paula is the youngest Boyd

This is Jenny, second to oldest. She is the middle child.

This is Pattie, Pattie is the oldest of the three.

About Pattie Boyd:Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is a model, photographer and author from the United Kingdom, best known as the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. In August 2007, she published her autobiography Wonderful Tonight. Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse have been exhibited in Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London and throughout the United States.Boyd was born on 17 March 1944, in Taunton, Somerset,[1] and was the first child to Colin Ian Langdon Boyd,[3] and Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale), who were married on 14 September 1942. The Boyds moved to West Lothian, Scotland where her brother Colin was born in 1946.[4] The Boyd family moved to Guildford, Surrey, where her sister, Jenny Boyd was born in 1947. Boyd's youngest sister, Paula, was born at Nakuru hospital, Kenya, in 1951. The Boyds lived in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948 to 1953, after her father's discharge from the Royal Air Force. Boyd's parents divorced in 1952, and her mother married Robert Gaymer-Jones in February 1953, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). The family returned to England where Boyd gained two half brothers, David J.B. (b. 1954) and Robert, Jr. (b. 1955).
Boyd attended Hazeldean School in Putney, the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead, and St Martha's Convent in Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire (where she received three GCE O level passes in 1961). Boyd moved to London in 1962 and worked as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon, until a client who worked for a fashion magazine inspired her to begin work as a model. In 1964, Boyd met Harrison during the filming of A Hard Day's Night, in which she was cast as a schoolgirl. Her only line in the film was asking "Prisoners?", but she later appeared in the "I Should Have Known Better" segment. Boyd was "semi-engaged" to photographer Eric Swayne at the time, thus declining a date proposal from Harrison. Several days later, after ending her relationship with Swayne, she went back to work on the film and Harrison asked her out on a date for a second time. The couple went to a private gentlemen's club called the Garrick Club, chaperoned by the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. According to Boyd, one of the first things Harrison said to her on the film set was: "Will you marry me? Well, if you won't marry me, will you have dinner with me tonight?"
Boyd had her first encounter with LSD in early 1965 when the couple's dentist, John Riley, secretly laced her coffee with the drug during a dinner party at his home. As she was getting ready to leave with Harrison, John and Cynthia Lennon, Riley told them that he had spiked their drinks and tried to convince them to stay. Outside, Boyd was in an agitated state from the drug and threatened to break a store window, but Harrison pulled her away. Later, when Boyd and her group were in an elevator on their way up to the Ad Lib club, they mistakenly believed it was on fire.
Later that year, Boyd moved into Kinfauns with Harrison. The couple were engaged on 25 December 1965, and married on 21 January 1966, in a ceremony at a registry office in Ashley Road, Epsom, with Paul McCartney as best man. Later, the couple went on a honeymoon in Barbados. In September, Boyd flew with Harrison to Bombay to visit sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, before returning to London on 23 October 1966. The following year, Boyd attended the Our World broadcast of "All You Need Is Love". Through her interest in Eastern mysticism and her membership in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, she inspired all four Beatles to meet the Indian mystic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London on 24 August 1967, which resulted in a visit to the Maharishi's seminar in Bangor, the following day. Boyd accompanied Harrison on the Beatles' visit to the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, in February 1968. In March 1970, Boyd moved with Harrison from Kinfauns to Friar Park, a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion, in Henley-on-Thames. In 1973, Boyd's marriage to Harrison began to fail and she had an affair with Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood. She separated from Harrison in 1974 and their divorce was finalised on 9 June 1977. Boyd said her decision to end their marriage and leave Harrison was based largely on his repeated infidelities, culminating in an affair with Ringo Starr's wife Maureen, which Boyd called "the final straw". Boyd characterized the last year of her marriage as "fueled by alcohol and cocaine", and claimed "George used coke excessively, and I think it changed him ... it froze his emotions and hardened his heart." According to Boyd, Harrison's songs "I Need You" and "Something" were written for her.In the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends, and began writing and recording music together. At this time Clapton fell in love with Boyd. His 1970 album with Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, was written to proclaim his love for her, particularly the hit song "Layla". When Boyd rebuffed his advances late that year, Clapton descended into heroin addiction and self-imposed exile for three years.Boyd moved in with Clapton and married him in 1979. Her struggles within the marriage were masked by her public image with Clapton. Although Boyd drank and admits to past drug use, she never became an alcoholic or a drug addict like Clapton did. Boyd left Clapton in September 1984, and divorced him in 1988. Her stated reasons were Clapton's years of alcoholism, as well as his numerous affairs including one with Italian model Lory Del Santo. In 1989, her divorce was granted on the grounds of "infidelity and unreasonable behavior . Boyd believes she was the inspiration for the songs: "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight".
About Jenny Boyd: Helen Mary Boyd (born 8 November 1947 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is a fashion model, clinical consultant and author. She is the younger sister of 1960s model, Pattie Boyd. sister Pattie nicknamed her "Jenny", after a doll.
She was a fashion model in the 1960s.
She attended UCLA in the late 1980s, earned a PhD in psychology, and became a clinical consultant and author. She co-authored a book about music and psychology, titled Musicians in Tune.She had a relationship with folk-rock singer Donovan, who wrote the song "Jennifer Juniper" about her. Boyd, traveled with Donovan and her sister, Pattie Boyd to Rishikesh, India, to attend a training session in Transcendental Meditation held by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Later she shared an apartment with Magic Alex of Apple Corps's Apple Electronics subdivision. She also worked at the Apple Boutique in London.
She married drummer Mick Fleetwood in June 1970 and they had two daughters, Lucy and Amy. After divorcing Fleetwood (and remarrying and divorcing him a second time), Jenny married drummer Ian Wallace in 1984 but they later divorced.
About Paula Boyd: Unfortunately, no one know too much about Paula. She moved in with Eric Clapton and they dated for sometime before Eric fell head over heels for Pattie. Paula was sometimes asked to volunteer to model but later on in her life she became drug addicted and stopped. Paula died on November 8, 2006 at age 58.

7 comments:

  1. Patti was born in 1951, so she would have been 55 when she died.

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  2. You mean "Paula". Pattie is still alive.

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  3. Enjoyed reading Wonderful tonight. Fasinating

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  4. Bobby Whitlock , who played keyboards and sang on the album "Layla and Assorted Love Songs", dated Paula from 1971-1972

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  5. I'd like to add that Paula must have made quite an impression on Bobby Whitlock because he recorded a love song to her in early 1971 entitled "Song for Paula". This song was included on his album, "Bobby Whitlock", released in early 1972. It begins with these lyrics, "Now, Paula, all I want to do. Is to stay close to you. And pray that nothing comes between us. We have both our lives to live. And so much love to give...".

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