#george's songs about pattie > eric's songs about pattie

[laurapetrie]

THE PATTIE BOYD PLAYLIST and other assorted love songs

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Gee Pattie Boyd, how come you get TWO of the best love songs ever written about you?

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Spooky Season 2024: 12-22

Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (dir. Richard Friedman, 1989)

The opening of the new mall is hampered by one thing: a Phantom hiding in the air vents, and committing robbery and murder. It turns out this Phantom is really a teenager named Eric (Derek Rydall) disfigured in a fire set by the mall's developers to clear out any remaining houses impeding their dreams of commercial development. Now, Eric plans on having his revenge and watching over his girlfriend Melody (Kari Whitman), now an employee of the mall. But what will he make of her burgeoning romance with a journalist?

Talk about pure '80s cheese. This film feels like it was made to capitalize on the slasher cycle and the popularity of the Andrew Lloyd Weber Phantom of the Opera megamusical. It's not a particularly good movie, but it is dumb fun. I love how this Phantom makes free use of the goods available in the stores and how he spams his spin kick attack like he's in a video game.

Also, Pauly Shore is in this. He has a great scene talking about subliminal messaging in department stores, but is otherwise the usual Pauly Shore.

Hangover Square (dir. John Brahm, 1945)

Musician George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) is disturbed by long sessions in which he blacks out. He fears he may be committing murder, but is reassured by the police when he goes to them that isn't likely. Detective Dr. Allen Middleton (George Saunders) advises the overworked George take a break from composing. George does so by going to a pub where he meets the lovely Netta Longdon (Linda Darnell), a music hall entertainer who dreams of fame. George and Netta enter into a toxic relationship in which she uses him to advance her career while seeing other men on the side. When George discovers her treachery, his blackouts return-- this time in a far more violent form.

I'm starting to become fascinated by John Brahm, a director best remembered for his moody, macabre dramas in the 1940s. Hangover Square was his second and final collaboration with the talented but doomed Laird Cregar, who died two months before the film was released. It's as much a noir as a horror picture, drenched in that chiaroscuro lighting and urban dread so common to the classic cycle.

Cregar is astonishing in the lead role. Though handsome, he was a bigger man, so Hollywood refused to allow him to transition into leading man parts. He is marvelous here, passionate and sensitive, yet also sinister once his jealous rage takes over. I've seen Cregar in multiple films and he was truly fantastic, able to be comic as well as dramatic. Hollywood didn't deserve him.

Lastly, Linda Darnell's character sings this really catchy song when Cregar first sees her. I saw this film weeks ago but it is STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD.

The Sealed Room (dir. DW Griffith, 1909)

In some nondescript time period (everyone's dressed like it's either the early 18th century or the middle ages), a king (Arthur V. Johnson) learns his mistress (Marion Leonard) is smooching with a musician (Henry B. Walthall). Jealous to the point of rage, he has the couple sealed in a small room where they suffocate to death.

The Sealed Room is a gem from the nickelodeon era, though I admit my liking for it comes from how extra all the performances are, even by the standards of the early silent period.

It also has one of my favorite instances of what I like to call "silent film logic"-- that is, scenes featuring action that would be very loud in real life, but in a silent film, you may not think about it as much. Here, the king has the lovers walled up alive in a small room, where they lounge unaware. And yet, there's workers slapping up a brick wall not ten feet away from them! It's very amusing.

Frankenhooker (dir. Frank Henenlotter, 1990)

When his girlfriend Elizabeth (Patty Mullen) gets hacked to death by an automatic lawnmower he built, medical student Jeffrey (James Lorinz) decides to resurrect her by killing sex workers for their shapely body parts then sewing Elizabeth's severed head on top. He does this by having his victims smoke explosive crack.

No, I'm not making this up.

I first heard about Frankenhooker from James Rolfe of Angry Video Game Nerd fame. It sounded so insane that I knew I had to watch it. It's-- well, it's definitely a bizarre movie with lots of crude humor and pitch black jokes.

Would you believe me if I said it was kind of an unsung feminist work? I definitely did not expect THAT angle coming in, but that messaging is definitely there. Jeffrey is a villain-protagonist through and through, even before he starts committing murder. We learn he was already demanding Elizabeth modify her appearance to suit his tastes before she got killed. He views women as more a collection of body parts than proper people. However, his misogyny does catch up with him in the end and his fate at the resurrected Elizabeth's hands is the very definition of irony. I don't want to spoil it.

It's definitely not for everyone, but if you have a sick sense of humor and some friends that share that humor, you'll have a good time.

Friday the 13th: Part 2 (dir. Steve Miner, 1981)

A summer camp close to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is about to open. Little do the young, horny counselors know, Jason (Warrington Gillette and Steve Daskewicz)-- the boy that allegedly drowned long ago-- is still alive and he's mad his mama got decapitated in the previous film. Lots of people die.

I confess I have a hard time getting into these Friday the 13th films. I've read it took a few entries for the series to find its footing as gloriously dumb schlock, but the first one and this sequel were mostly boring for me. About all I liked was the last twenty minutes, when the heroine's background in child psychology comes into play. Otherwise, this gets a big meh from me. Not horrible, but nothing I can imagine I'll ever rewatch.

Corridor of Mirrors (dir. Terence Young, 1948)

A party girl (Edana Romney) becomes involved with a Renaissance era-obessed artist (Eric Portman). Their fetishistic relationship leads to heartbreak and murder.

Already discussed this one is great detail at my Wordpress blog. It's a great romantic thriller in the vein of Vertigo and Rebecca.

The Old Dark House (dir. James Whale, 1932)

During a thunderstorm, a group of unwary British travelers are marooned at the crumbling mansion of the Femm family, a collection of eccentrics who may be insane. Everything goes wrong: the hulking butler gets drunk and preys on the women visitors, the area may flood, the lights go out, and there may be a homicidal maniac imprisoned in one of the rooms upstairs. Will anyone survive the night?

I have raved about this film for a long time now. It's truly a favorite of mine in general, not just for the Halloween season. Both witty and chilling, it's an atmospheric masterpiece. The damp and mold are palpable.

What fascinates me most is the Femm family itself and the gaps in their backstory. This is one movie where I feel like there's a Tolstoyan novel's worth of drama with the Femms. It's hinted that the 102-year-old patriarch of the house (played in drag by actress Elspeth Dudgeon) used to host orgies there. The death of the seductive sister Rebecca at the age of 21 may or may not have been due to inter-family foul play. Morgan the butler has a close, even weirdly tender relationship with the homicidally insane brother Saul, suggesting a myriad of possible connections between them. It's very interesting-- I like that the movie doesn't fill in all the blanks.

A Game of Death (dir. Robert Wise, 1945)

Don Rainsford (John Loder), big game hunter extraordinaire, finds himself shipwrecked on a mysterious island. The owner is Erich Kriegler (Edgar Barrier), an urbane German who also enjoys hunting, though with a slight difference-- he likes hunting humans. Teaming up with other shipwreck survivors Ellen (Audrey Long) and Robert (Russell Wade), Don tries finding a way to escape before they become Kriegler's next wall trophies.

This movie is a pallid, watered down, shot-for-shot remake of The Most Dangerous Game, one of the crown jewels of 1930s horror, so of course, I am not fond of it. And yet, I rewatch it every few years, so it must have something going for it. So instead of tearing into it as I normally do, I'll list a few things I think are actually good about it:

I like that the main character initially tries tricking Kriegler into thinking he will hunt people with him. Very pro-active.

I think Kriegler is a good villain. Not as memorably deranged and campy as Leslie Banks' Zaroff in the original film, but chilling in a more low-key way. His "the strong deserve to prey upon the weak" philosophy fits in nicely with Nazi ideologies-- no doubt what this wartime horror flick intended.

Um... I think Audrey Long is really pretty. I like her flow-y outfits.

... Yeah, that's it.

The Most Dangerous Game (dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, 1932)

All-American big game hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is shipwrecked on the unlisted island of Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks), a Russian aristocrat and master sportsman who claims he now hunts "the most dangerous game" of all. Being a himbo, it takes Bob a while before he realizes that game is human beings. Unwilling to hunt alongside Zaroff when given the offer, Rainsford and fellow prisoner Eve Trowbridge (Fay Wray) wage a game with Zaroff: let loose into the island's thick jungle, if they survive the night without Zaroff or the terrain killing them, they'll go free. If not, Rainsford dies and Eve will become a rather different kind of quarry for the evil count.

Now, here's my favorite "hunter hunts people" movie! While "The Most Dangerous Game" has been adapted and ripped off multiple times for a century, the original is still hard to beat. The castle set drips with gothic grandeur. The jungle soundstage is thick and suffocating, and once the chase intensifies, it becomes like something out of a nightmare.

I actually think the climactic hunt is among the greatest sequences in all cinema. The editing is so dynamic and the images are brilliant. And when you consider this is still an early talkie, when films were still trying to rediscover their footing after silent cinema came to an end, it becomes even more remarkable.

Going on Letterboxd, I was shocked to find a lot of people on there have mixed to negative opinions about this movie, largely because they think it's too over the top and that it's messaging is too on the nose.

I mean-- yes, these things are true, but I don't see them as flaws. It probably helps that I love camp and melodrama, and am not ashamed to admit it. And regardless of the fervent camp on display, I still think the trophy room scene is creepy and the chase is super intense. I have probably seen this movie close to a hundred times and yet, the chase still has me shouting at the TV, willing the characters to run faster. That's damn fine filmmaking.

The Haunting (dir. Robert Wise, 1963)

A researcher of the paranormal brings a motley crew of ordinary people into the allegedly haunted Hill House. Both potential ghosts and the neuroses of the visitors bring on sinister events and ultimately tragedy.

I love this movie more and more. I already wrote a bit about my reaction this time around, though since then, I started rereading the source novel, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Obviously, the book delves more deeply into Eleanor's psyche, but the film does a fantastic job of this as well. Given film is a visual medium, it can be a challenge to depict a character's interior state without delving into expressionism and this film does that well.

The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Terence Fisher, 1962)

Aspiring songstress Christine Charles (Heather Sears) and producer Harry Hunter (Edward de Souza) are drawn into a mystery at the London Opera House. A phantom is sabotaging any attempt to produce Joan of Arc: A Tragedy, a show allegedly written by the cold, snobby, rapey Lord Ambrose (Michael Gough). After some investigating, it turns out the Phantom (Herbert Lom) was once the meek-mannered Professor Petrie, whose music was stolen by Ambrose. Now, he wants only to see his opera done justice and only Christine's voice can make that happen.

I am very fond of this version of The Phantom of the Opera even though I think it has a myriad of dramatic flaws. Let's get the flaws out the way first. I think the film is a bit repetitive in retelling us Petrie's story over and over, at first through onscreen description and then through filmed depiction. I also think the ending is anti-climactic, like the writers didn't want to go the usual route of making the Phantom a homicidal maniac but they weren't sure how to make a properly dramatic finish without that characterization.

That out the way, this is a unique, even refreshing retelling in many ways. The Phantom/Christine relationship is no longer one of unrequited love-- in fact, Petrie seems wholly uninterested in romance or sex at all. He views Christine and himself as victims of the truly despicable Lord Ambrose: Petrie had his music stolen and Christine was sexually harrassed. Therefore, it is up to the two of them to wrest the opera back from Amrbose's influence and make it the production Petrie wanted. Petrie is one hard taskmaster. He is relentless in training Christine and at one point throws filthy sewer-water in her face when she faints.

But the Phantom is hardly an out and out villain here. He doesn't even kill people-- he has a convenient hunchbacked assistant to do that. No, the real baddie is Ambrose, among the nastiest villains in the Hammer canon. Ambrose never even kills anyone, yet he makes the blood boil with his wanton cruelty. Michael Gough (who I always remember best as Alfred in the Tim Burton Batman movies, as well as Batman Forever and Batman and Robin) is so good at being bad.

This version of POTO also has my favorite version of the Phantom's compositions. Usually, he writes a "burning" piece called Don Juan Triumphant, fitting his romantic obsession with Christine. Here, Petrie writes an opera about Joan of Arc, a virginal saint persecuted by powerful men-- a fitting subject for Petrie given his own persecution by an aristocrat. Joan's aria "I Hear Your Voice" is gorgeous and always brings me to tears, it's that beautiful.

Not a perfect film, but still a very good one.

[retropopcult]

"Something" is a song by British rock band the Beatles from their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road (1969). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, about his wife Pattie Boyd and is widely considered one of the greatest love songs of all time.

Apple Records issued the single as the flip side of "Come Together" (not as a "B" side, but as an "alternate A side") insisted by John Lennon, who considered "Something" to be the best song on the album. The single reached #1 in the US and three other countries (and was Top Ten in dozen more). The release marked the first time that a Harrison composition had been afforded A-side treatment on a Beatles single. In a 1990 letter to Mark Lewisohn, Alan Klein rebutted a claim made in the book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the single was intended as a money-making exercise: Klein said it was purely a mark of Lennon's regard for "Something" and "to point out George as a writer, and give him courage to go in and do his own LP. Which he did."

Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Harrison began writing "Something" in late 1968 during a session for the Beatles' White Album. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano at the same time as McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighboring room at Abbey Road Studios. But Harrison suspended work on the song, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it must have been a melody from another song (something McCartney also wrestled with on "Yesterday"). Only after months of checking with other artists (and borrowing the opening lyric from fellow songwriter James Taylor, another Apple Records client), Harrison was able to work out the middle eight and finish it. Finally sometime in 1969, Boyd recalled: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful. He first played it to me in the kitchen."

The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October 1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was leaving the band. By this time, the band members had grown apart. As a result, the film consisted of separate clips, edited together, featuring the Beatles walking around the grounds of their homes with their respective wives. Harrison's segment shows him and Boyd together in their garden at Kinfauns. The four segments were edited and compiled into a single film clip by Neil Aspinall. Allan Kozinn noted: "What Mr. Aspinall's idyllic film avoided showing was that the Beatles were at that point barely on speaking terms. In the film, no two Beatles are seen together."

"Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Song of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". Shirley Bassey had a top-five hit with her 1970 recording, and Frank Sinatra regularly performed the song, calling it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years." In 2000, Mojo ranked "Something" at number 14 in the magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time".

A year after Harrison's death, his good friends McCartney and Eric Clapton performed a loving rendition of the song at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall. Pattie Boyd said she was "moved to tears" by the performance.

[littlequeenies]

‘I’ve been called a witch, slut, murderer’: the ultra-creative women dismissed as rock star girlfriends

Despite their artistic skill, Anita Pallenberg, Suzi Ronson and Yoko Ono were cast as mere lovers or muses. They're now being allowed to tell their own stories – even if it's after death-Annie ZaleskiTue 21 May 2024 11.46 CEST

In a 2008 interview, Anita Pallenberg swore she would never write her autobiography. The artist, model and actor was weary of publishers who only wanted to read about her intimate dealings with the Rolling Stones – she dated both Brian Jones and Keith Richards, and had an affair with Mick Jagger. “They all wanted salacious,” she said then. “And everybody is writing autobiographies and that’s one reason why I’m not going to do it.”

Yet when Pallenberg died in 2017, she left behind pages of a neatly typed manuscript, titled Black Magic, that contained her life story. True to form, she characterised these memoirs as “memory images, a traveller’s tale through a landscape of dreams and shadows” rather than an autobiography. But she held little back while chronicling her spirited and frequently tumultuous life, quipping: “I don’t think the lawyers will like it very much.”Read in a narration by Scarlett Johansson, her unpublished words are the backbone of a compelling new documentary, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg. Kate Moss celebrates her as “the original bohemian rock chick that people still aspire to today” but more valuable is Pallenberg reframing her legacy on her own terms from beyond the grave. “I’ve been called a witch, a slut, a murderer. I’ve been hounded by the police and slandered in the press,” she wrote, before adding, “But I don’t need to settle scores. I’m reclaiming my soul.”Given how much ink has been spilt on the Stones over the years, it’s refreshing to hear Pallenberg share her own perspective on her experiences. She’s not the only high-profile rock girlfriend now getting a chance to tell their own story, asserting their place in, and influence on, male-dominated music culture.

Suzi Ronson, who was married to the guitarist Mick Ronson, just released a candid memoir, Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, that’s a clear-eyed look at rock star mythology. Pattie Boyd, married to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, was interviewed in 2018 by Taylor Swift for Harper’s Bazaar (“George and Eric had an inability to communicate their feelings through normal conversation,” Boyd said, “I became a reflection for them”) and this year she eloquently reminisced as she auctioned her memorabilia, including love letters from Clapton and handwritten Harrison lyrics, for a staggering £2,818,184. “The letters from Eric – they’re so desperate and passionate, a passion that blooms once in a lifetime,” she said. “They’re too painful in their beauty.”

Tate Modern, in London, is meanwhile celebrating Yoko Ono with a career-spanning exhibition, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind – a pointed reminder that Ono’s artistic collaboration with John Lennon was only a relatively brief part of her career. It shows how her artistry spans theatre, writing and music, but also how it makes space for her story to change over time – for example, the various performances of Cut Piece across the decades – and for others’ perspectives. Take Ono’s 1964 artist’s book Grapefruit, which uses short, abstract action items (“Imagine the clouds dripping. Dig a hole in your garden to put it in”) to generate a huge potential variety of creative responses.

Among those was Lennon’s Imagine. In a 1980 BBC interview, Lennon said Grapefruit provided “the lyric and the concept” of the song, but Ono didn’t receive a songwriting credit until 2017 even though Lennon was aware of the oversight in his lifetime. “But those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho,” he told the BBC, “and I sort of omitted to mention her contribution.”

Pallenberg, too, served as inspiration for Rolling Stones songs such as Gimme Shelter. But Catching Fire reinforces the idea that even if sexism meant she was underestimated by the public, she wasn’t a passive presence or muse. “Neither Anita nor I wanted to be with them because we wanted some of their power,” Marianne Faithfull says in voiceover – she was in the band’s orbit alongside Pallenberg owing to a relationship with Jagger. “We had our own power.”

Faithfull’s power was her own music career; Pallenberg, who spoke several languages and worked as a model, influenced the Stones’ look. (“I started to become a fashion icon for wearing my old lady’s clothes,” Richards quipped in his bookLife.) And she refused to rearrange her life for the Stones. “No girls were allowed in the studio when they were recording,” she said. “You weren’t allowed even to ring. I did other things; I didn’t sit at home.” She maintained an acting career, notably in 1968’s movie Barbarella and 1970’s Performance – though her voice was dubbed out in the former: you wonder whether her “muse” tag meant casting directors underestimated her.

Suzi Ronson, a colour-loving hair wizard who brought David Bowie’s tomato-red Ziggy Stardust coif to life, also took a different path from other women of her time. She left a steady job and went on the road, steering the Ziggy Stardust tour aesthetic by handling hair, makeup, and other tasks.

Me and Mr Jones illuminates her part in helping Bowie crystallise his vision – and shows how fame and rock stardom corrupt. On a Mott the Hoople tour, she seethes while Mick, cozying up to a baroness, orders Suzi to find his hairbrush, treating her like an assistant rather than a girlfriend. It wasn’t the only time she was underestimated. “I’m now the pathetic girlfriend, clinging on to my man, a position I never thought I’d find myself in,” she writes after joining Mick on tour with Bob Dylan for a few days, after not being invited. “I try to be understanding, but truthfully I’m infuriated at being left out.”

These new works also highlight how each woman, at a time when women struggled to “have it all”, cultivated agency through one of the only paths open to them: motherhood. Rather than being something limiting, becoming mothers allowed them to reinvent their lives. Suzi Ronson, long out of Bowie’s orbit and living in England with her parents after giving birth, reflects that “the life I created for myself has disappeared, and my career with it,” she writes, but her daughter brings joy and solace – and encourages her to stay optimistic and keep striving for a unique path. “As I push her around the same streets my mother used to push me, I swear to her: this isn’t going to be it, and I pray I’m right.” Ronson closes the loop by noting that she and Mick return to the US, living in the singer Maria Muldaur’s house and finding equilibrium.

Ono confronted motherhood’s messiness. Her installation My Mommy Was Beautiful used photos of breasts and vaginas to demystify birth and celebrate the strength of the body, and the 1969 song Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow) – which Yoko wrote for her young daughter Kyoko – conveys primal agony and frustration. “Society’s myth is that all women are supposed to love having children,” Ono said in 1981. “But that was a myth. So there was Kyoko, and I did become attached to her and had great love for her, but at the same time, I was still struggling to get my own space in the world. I felt that if l didn’t have room for myself, how could I give room to another human being?”

Pallenberg also navigates this conundrum. Jake Weber, the actor son of notorious Stones associate Tommy Weber, becomes visibly emotional when talking about how “generous and funny” Pallenberg was to him after his mother died in 1971, during the Stones’ debauched French summer. “She filled a vacuum of a surrogate parent,” he said. “She was lovely like that. Her thing was trying to give us joy.” Catching Fire also visits the agonising fallout of the sudden June 1976 death of Pallenberg’s 10-week-old son Tara.

Pallenberg has the last word in Catching Fire, and her conclusion illustrates the importance of women directing their own narratives. “Writing this has helped me emerge in my own eyes,” she noted. “Reading over what I’ve written, I get a lump in my throat. But it doesn’t need to be a doom and gloom kind of story.” The film makes it clear that Pallenberg’s chief power was, ultimately, resilience, which she needed during an often-challenging life (she lived with various addictions, including to heroin and alcohol) and several tragic events, such as when a 17-year-old shot and killed himself in Richards’ bed.

“I felt like some nasty person who caused death and destruction around her,” Pallenberg said after the 1979 incident, but Catching Fire refuses to let Pallenberg become a tragic figure or cautionary tale. The film ends noting that she got sober, graduated from college, and aged with iconoclastic gusto. The lessons are clear – redemption is possible and we are not our worst moments – while also reinforcing what we miss when women’s voices are silenced or ignored. Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, directed by Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill is in UK and Irish cinemas now

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pattieboydfp "Yet I came to believe that although something about me might have made George and Eric put pen to paper to write songs; it was really all about them."🌸💚🌸

These two photographs are of Pattie Boyd wearing a wig for Vogue, 1971. Credits go to Alexis Waldeck🌸

Via @pattieboydfp on Instagram🌸

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Patty Boyd

Princess princess got lost between two men look at the beauty look at the grace look at the fair nature of her. She’s one of the most stunning women I’ve ever ever seen in my life 60s ethereal hippie, she married Georgia around 19 6405 they had many a happy she got to court between two men and while she was living with George she probably married him around 1965 when the Beatles really took off they were both really young. They met on the set of a “hard days night”, semi biographical film, which if you haven’t watched direct highly recommend🎥 it starts all the Beatles, and the man who played Steptoe, as Paul McCartney’s clean grandfather?. I was obsessed as an autistic I was obsessed with this film 🍿 I watched it over and over again to the point of my siblings and their friends thought I was crazy, I was just autistic, and this is where they met, she plays one of the schoolgirl, when they get on the train. I haven’t read patties book but I know adjust of what happened in their marriage. They were married for. They were married for 11 years from 1966 to 1977, things won’t go right and George with cheating on Patty with groupies and others the worst part of it all is that he was having an affair with Maureen Starkey yeah that’s right Ringo wife Patty had to inform Ringo about so if you didn’t split them up, this was another reason to put a Riff between the Beatles, excuse the pun.

So she had to write a letter to Ringo informing him of the affair, which was one of the hardest things she had to do, the other side part she was really close to Maureen, they were like best friends.

During this time or after they met Eric Clapton, George and Patty and Eric was very interested in Patty. She turned down all his advances until she had enough and she fell for him. He played her the song Layla, which was about her during the end of her marriage, it was hard to get to him because he was chanting Harry Krishna all the time.

Happy apart from the fact that he was a heroin addict the whole time of their marriage pretty much, yet again with another man who cheated on her and used drugs so she got to the most talented men in the industry but I had to pay the price of their silliness and stupidity. These men don’t know what they have a woman like Patty Boyd should be treated with the upmost respect .

She has lived a very interesting life and has gone through very interesting experiences. I think she paints I think she writes but I’m sure she has many stories to tell to sit and listen to them.

[pattie-remembers]

Pattie Boyd: ‘George and I nearly drowned in a riptide on our Barbados honeymoon’

February 22 2023, 12.00pm GMT

Barbados, where Pattie Boyd and George Harrison were caught in a riptide on their honeymoon

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Pattie Boyd lives in London with her husband, Rod Weston, and their dog, Freddie. A Sixties model and now an acclaimed photographer, she was formerly married to Harrison and Eric Clapton.

I was three years old when my parents moved to Kenya to live with my grandparents. We had a beautiful, big rambling house. The garden went on into the wilderness, it wasn’t unusual to see giraffes and lions wandering in.

Growing up in Africa shaped me. I remember very clearly riding bareback on my horse through woodland. I got used to the unusual. Going to bed one night I heard a noise. Underneath the door was a snake, slowly slithering into my room. I was frozen, absolutely riveted, he was huge. I was nineyears old and I started screaming.

I was sent to boarding school in England when I was ten and it was quite a shock to the system. The other girls didn’t know what I was talking about. Africa was all I knew.

Boyd with George Harrison, in 1966

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George and I nearly drowned on our honeymoon in Barbados. We stayed in the middle of the island and explored the north coast. One glorious day we went swimming and to my horror I realised that there was a riptide. I was swimming towards the beach and not moving. I realised that if we were to swim parallel to the shore, we might get away from the current. I was terrified. I remember Mick Fleetwood said to me once, it is a weird thing when you know you’re drowning, you start swallowing water and everything becomes euphoric. George and I finally made it to the beach and sat there panting. The waiters brought us sandwiches and we ate the whole lot in shock.

India with the Beatles was a magical time. We were in an ashram, surrounded by like-minded people. The maharishi kept insisting it was very important for us all to learn meditation, for us and for the world. He said things were going to escalate and get faster and meditation would give us the tools to slow life down.

The Beatles would sit on the ashram steps with their guitars, jamming together and singing. They wrote so many songs there, everything from The White Album. The whole vibe was gentle and calming and inspirational.

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Touring with Eric was new to me because I never went on tour with George and the Beatles. America was eye-opening. When Eric went on stage, the audience would stretch back as far as the eye could see. I used to sit on the side, drink in one hand, camera in the other. During the encore the audience would lift their lighters into the air and the whole auditorium would be filled with flickering lights in the dark. I love to capture beauty with my camera. It’s like anything fabulous: it’s not going to be there for ever.

Boyd with Eric Clapton in 1978

ALAMY

Eric didn’t really like travelling otherwise. I think when you’re a musician and you tour, then the idea of travelling for a holiday is not high up on your list.

A place I’ll always love is Venezuela. I went in 1994 when I was single and discovering who I was again. I did a day trip to Angel Falls, eventually reaching the top of a mountain that looked down over an incredibly steep edge. The idea was to go hang-gliding, something that had never crossed my mind before. I said, “Blow that! I’m not jumping off this cliff!” Suddenly an elderly Indian lady ran past us and leapt off the mountain as we watched in horror. Well, we had to do it then, didn’t we? Clutching my camera to my chest, I jumped into nothing. I felt like a condor in the air — I was jumping to freedom.

Angel Falls in Venezuela

ALAMY

Peru is a special place. I went there with a female shaman, and I knew I was going to take ayahuasca [a plant-based psychedelic drug]. Greedy me, I ended up doing it twice. It was amazing. We also knew that we would be shedding a lot, both physically and spiritually. Just before we started I noticed a huge snake curled on one of the eaves. Six hours later we walked out and I saw the snake’s skin lying on the floor. The symbolism was clear. I never did ayahuasca with George and Eric, they weren’t adventurous like that.

Growing up in Kenya helped me not to be frightened in life. I am excited because there are more things to see, more adventures, and I don’t like to repeat things, I don’t see the point. There is always something new around the corner.

Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures is published by Reel Art Press at £39.95 (reelartpress.com)

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[louiswilliamtomlinsons]

oh to be patty boyd and have george harrison and eric clapton confess their undying love for you and write romantic songs about you that ended up becoming all time classics

[georgeharrisonsmiling]

Now that we are talking about George's problematic traits, why do you think he was friends with Eric Clapton for so many years?

That's not a simple question but I think that basics are: He gave George respect, partnership and support in a moment George really needed it and wasn't getting it from his friends. Some examples:

The moment that bonded them was when Clapton helped George save his song but I think the friendship was sealed when they wrote a song together and George was credited. That was a new experience for George and that song is important enough to be included in "I me mine".

During the final tense months of the Beatles, George's escape was Clapton's house to the point of creating "Here comes the sun" there.

Clapton was one of, if not the biggest of George's supporters when he made All things must pass. All the songs rejected by the Beatles, George and Clapton recorded them together.

During the concert for Bangladesh, John left New York without even letting George know at the last minute. Meanwhile Clapton was there during all the rehearsals and the concert even when he was going through withdrawal.

Also George and Clapton loved each other. For all his many many many faults, it cannot be denied that Clapton loved George nor that they had a very weird relationship. Clapton admitted that he mainly went after Pattie because she was George's wife. Pattie suffered the most, but she wasn't the only woman caught up in whatever mess was going up between those two. There also other weird examples of their relationship like Clapton warning Olivia from dating George or him saying things like everyone else disappeared the moment George walked into a room. Clapton was even a bit heartbroken when he discovered at George's memorial that he was just one of the many best friends George had.

[nityarawal]

11/2/2023

Morning Songs

"Now And Then, " 

Beatles 50 Year Release Peace Party

Now And Then

You Melt My Heart

Now And Then

I Wonder If It's

Really You

Now And Then

Are You There

Or Is It Just

Ketu

Mercury

Buddha

Now And Then

Are You Here

Now And Then

What Do You Need

Needy

Now And Then

Thankyou

For Hearing Me

Please

Now And Then

You Melt My Heart

Now And Then

You Come Thru

Time

Now And Then

It's Like Someone Is There

A Shooting Star

For Paul's Birthday

A Masked Bicyclist

Mind F'ing With 

My Brain

In The Night

Making Me Laugh

Love 

In Comedy

Serendipity

Or A Dog

In Sunglasses

Spying At Gas Stations

Funny Pranks

Beatles Magic

Miracles

How'd You Do It

How Do You Always

Show Up

Knights

Making Me Cry

Rocket Tears

For Doing Everything

Right

Seen So Many Mammas

Have A Beatles 

Moment

Meltdown

You Got Us All

Buckling At The Knees

With Pleas'

Seen So Many Mammas'

Having A Beatles'

Moment

Crying Sincerely

Who Do We Love Most

It Changes

Over The Years

First John

Like My Dad's Namesake

Then Paul

"I Will,"

Then George

"I've Got My Mind Set On you,"

Then Ringo DLF

Lust "TMCharities"

Touring

Selling Art

"I Wanna Be Your Man,"

But My Husband

Wouldn't Share

My Hearts Desires

Sadly We Pined

For More

Then Paul

Then Dhani

Then George 

Then Paul

Some How Darin 

Slipped In

A Identical Rockstar

Icon

"Old Yellers,"

"Birds of Olympus,"

Ken Doll

For Court

Sweet Little Sean

I Discovered With UK Niece

Also His Charlotte

Dhani's

"Mereki"

"London Water,"

Magic With Nitya4Eternity

"Parallel,"

Ringo- "I Wanna Be Your Man,"

4 Times

Sung To Me

Danced For A 

Chance

Selling Art To 

Crowds

Love Peace

#FreeBritney

#4BillionMomsStrong 

We Can't Stop

You Got Us Buckling

At The Knees

Dancing

Talking About Pizza

You Got Us Buckling

At The Knees

A Puddle

Of Mothers Love

You Always Do

You Got Us Buckling

At The Knees

It's True

"Let It Be,"

Peace On Earth

To You My Dear

Knights

Souls

Beatles' Family

Maharishi's

Kids

Maharishi 

Mother Divine

Loves You

Eternally

I Will Always

Love You

Thankyou For 

Bringing John's

Last Words Back

I Will Always 

Love You

Yoko, Olivia, Patty June

Layla & Majnun

All The Epic Stories

Uncle Eric

And Elo

Gave Us Too

God Bless America

Thankyou Beatles

For Giving Back

One Song

I Can't Even

Sing Through It

Yet

Grazia

Prego

Let The Heavens 

Unfold- Peace- Baray

"Woman-Life-Freedom; Liberty," Shervin

Peace

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal

[beatleshistoryblog]

LECTURE 20: THE END: Here is the promotional film for George Harrison’s ethereal and timelessly romantic song “Something,” from the Abbey Road (1969) album. Along with “Here Comes the Sun,” “Something” has long been regarded as a masterpiece, which demonstrated Harrison’s song writing prowess in the final months of the Beatles’ existence. Singer and actor Frank Sinatra famously described “Something” as, “The greatest love song ever written.” The film – shot in October 1969 – shows each of the Beatles walking around the grounds of their estates with their wives. Many commentators have noted the strikingly different styles of the Beatles in the video, and the fact that they are not all shown together, which suggests that by this time they were heading in dramatically different directions. George wrote the song for his then-wife, Pattie Boyd, but their relationship – like George’s relationship with the Beatles – was in trouble at this point. As Pattie Boyd wrote many years later in her 2007 memoir Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me: "George wrote a song called 'Something.' He told me in a matter-of-fact way that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions. George's favourite version was the one by James Brown. Mine was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in our kitchen. But, in fact, by then our relationship was in trouble. Since a trip to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India in 1968, George had become obsessive about meditation. He was also sometimes withdrawn and depressed."

[littlequeenies]

Why Do We Love…

Charlotte Martin

Our series "Why Do We Love..." published on each muse's birthday are getting to an end, and French former model and artist Charlotte Martin is next!

[Charlotte Martin in 1967 by Robert Whittaker. Sent to us by lovely Kana from Japan for our Family Zepp site, remember?]

We first new about Charlotte when one of us created a website called Family Zepp on piczo back in the day, remember that? We were teenagers and we loved Led Zeppelin, but unlike The Beatles, there weren't any sites for the girls or the children, so one of us started and we became familiar with the names of Maureen and Carmen Plant, Sabel Starr, Lori Mattix ... and Charlotte!

[Charlotte in 1969 by Barry Lategan]

Truth to be told, we had to do a real detective job with Charlotte, because it was said that she was a 1960s supermodel, but unlike Pattie Boyd, we couldn't find anything! And, like her, she had a relationship with Eric Clapton, before having one with Jimmy Page.

[Charlotte and Eric in 1967, by Robert Whittaker]

We also learnt that she had a short relationship with Beatle George Harrison, but never was included anywhere as a "Beatlegirl". Little by little we found (sometimes with a little help from our friends) more and more Charlotte information and photos, including modelling pics, but in every pic she looked different, so we weren't sure if it was her or not!

[For years these were the only Charlotte pics on the net we could find, early 1970s, late 1970s and 1980s...]

Little by little we learned she was on The Beatles "All You Need is Love" video or in Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" film, so we took screencaps of her, to build our collection for the Family Zepp website!

[Left, 1967 "All you need is Love", sitting between Paul McCartney -not shown- and John Lennon. Right, with her baby daughter Scarlet Page in a cameo in "The Song Remains the Same". Our caps]

But we think most of the photos we found came after, maybe thanks to tumblr and later (recently) instagram. We found amazing blogs like Liz Eggleston/Miss Peelpants who find the greatest and rarest Charlotte pics and share them with us all. So we could see Charlotte's beauty and talent once and for all!

[Three of the numerous of modelling Charlotte scans that Liz Eggleston/Miss Peelpants shares in her blog, go and follow her!]

[One of the typical images of Charlotte... thanks to tumblr and instagram we could find out the date and occasion! The 1967 Legalize Cannabis Rally at London's Speaker's Corner]

[Left, another Beatles' connection! Modelling The Fool for The Apple boutique in 1968. Right, Charlotte shared her 1969 modelling image on her instagram]

We respect Charlotte for never selling her stories of the times she spent with The Beatles, Eric, Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin... even if we'd like to know all the details!

[Charlotte, Jimmy, and their daughter, photographer Scarlet, in a Scarlet photography exhibition in 2007. Charlotte is in good terms with both Eric and Jimmy.]

Nowadays she is a very successful artist and painter, and you can see her creating her work on her website or the numerous exhibits she's done.

[Charlotte in 2017 with one of her paintings, from her website]

Today, for her 75th birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Charlotte and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR BIOGRAPHY OF HER, WITH LINKS TO AMAZING SITES

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

OUR PHOTO COLLECTION HOSTED AT GOOGLE PHOTOS (all the photos have been collected from the net, photographers, details, websites etc are credited when known)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BEAUTIFUL ARTIST

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

So let’s talk Patty Boyd, she one that was one of the main main models of the 1960s. She gained recognition in the film a hard days night(Beatles film) just Anita Pallenberg was with the Rolling Stones she was with the Beatles and that is how George Harrison met her on the set of a hard days night when she played a schoolgirl. She has a very interesting life story. Her sister was with the drama of Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, they were both models she’s a Pisces and so is George it’s very interesting when you and your partner are the same time because they give us the same essence and you are the same essence in your sunshine. The rest of the chart can be a lot more complicated in Siri all composite, so some of the best songs ever have been written about Patty Boyd, Layla, being the most well one and also you look wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton who stole Patty from George, but I don’t believe anybody can be stolen if the relationship is truly over and those two people have had enough of each other.

When it became the end of the relationship, Georgia got very into Indian culture and Harry Krishna. He was chanting around the house all the time when she was chaunting around the house when she was trying to get through to him, he cheated on her with Maureen Starkey, which was Ringo Starr‘s wife, which is very deceitful and very mean for her from both parties because her and Maureen were supposedly quite close, and also it was very wrong of George to do that to Ringo Ringo, who is a cancer Maureen who is a Leo which is very common for Leo women. They can’t always be a girls girl as much as they want to be. They won’t always be but let’s not forget that Patty did the same to George with Eric, even though that came as you later, and then what did Eric do to Patty he cheated on her too they both had the most beautiful woman in the world and they treated her not so we’ll.

Later on in her late years, she is not resentful of any of this, and she has wrote a book about all of the debacle and everything that happened in those times of her lives, and I believe that she has many happy memories 😌☀️🙏🌞💎🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 they love, George and Eric would’ve been attracted to patties exulted X halted Venus in Pisces, which squares her Gemini Mars, so her masculine energy brings out the bad of her feminine energy. I think astrology squares are more significant and oppositions, and there are a lot more difficult to deal with because for example, let’s say you’re a Leo a Scorpio, which squares you is going to make you feel uncomfortable they might make you feel less prideful. They might make you feel protective where is for a Scorpio and Leo Leo may make the Scorpio feel uncomfortable by being overconfident or by being oversensitive or by letting themselves be on show of who they really are, George was a Scorpio moon, Scorpio Mans, feel very intensely. They are very private. They are private about things that they should not maybe even be private about it is in detriment. Sorry it is in it fall . Hi rising sign is in Capricorn. He’s rising sign is in Libra, so they square each other so putting that together, his libra ascendant sat in her eighth house, so she could’ve had a lot of delusions about the relationship in a very dark and twisted way and she could’ve been controlled by that because his moon would’ve also been sat in the night house which was higher power higher learning on the Sagittarius household so those two placements were sitting together very closely, and when the moon and Neptune come closely together, you can have very unreal estate and delusions around relationships for her. That must’ve been very difficult, and I spoke, she had a whole life because she had it with Eric, too

For George, he is a libra rising and her ascendant is going to sit in his Hot ascendant is going to sit in his fourth house which is to do with family lineage heritage where you come from your roots and who you are as the person from a very young age. It also is the house that rules cancer so yeah we’ve Capricorn being here in the opposite sign. There might be some conflict there, but he is going to feel very deep connection to her emotionally, as I believe it’s the house of the moon some argue it’s the house of the father while some argue it’s the house of the mother but there’s a little interesting story for you about the Beatles. I’m sure many of you knew this already .

[pattie-remembers]

“I love those big shoulder pads, the glamour of hair, false eyelashes,” Boyd said of the 1980s

TONY BOCK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES

ENTERTAINMENT

Pattie Boyd, model of the Swinging Sixties, prefers 1980s fashion

David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent

Wednesday October 05 2022, 12.01am, The Times 

She may be the face of the Swinging Sixties and Seventies, as well as swinging on the arm of two of its icons, but for Pattie Boyd the 1980s were just better.

The former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton had a ringside seat for the Beatles in the 1960s and toured with Clapton in the 1970s. Yet yesterday Boyd, 78, told the Henley Literary Festival: “The Eighties were absolutely fantastic.

“It was so full-on. I love those big shoulder pads, the glamour of hair, false eyelashes, it was absolutely super glamorous.”

Harrison and Boyd pose for a portrait in 1966

MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES

Boyd with Eric Clapton

L J VAN HOUTEN/REX FEATURES

Boyd, who was pursued by Clapton, right, while still with Harrison, said there had been no antipathy between the two

ALAN DAVIDSON/SHUTTERSTOCK

At the British Phonographic Awards in the Grosvenor House Hotel, 1987

CLIVE DIX/SHUTTERSTOCK

If she could relive a moment, it would be travelling to Cornwall on a train with the Beatles where for ten hours she “listened to them play music and run around laughing and having fun”.

Boyd, who was pursued by Clapton while still with Harrison, said there had been no antipathy between the two — although she had been nervous about Harrison’s reaction to Clapton writing the song Layla for her.

However, Harrison attended the party after she married Clapton in 1979. “Musicians absolutely adore each other because of how they play, because of their music,” she said. “And I think that transcends social relationships.”

Not all musicians found it as easy to forgive. Bryan Ferry had turned up at the party, shortly after Jerry Hall, his ex-fiancee, had started dating the Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. “He said, ‘Is Jerry here?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Is Mick here?’ I said, ‘Yes.’

“He turned round and went back into his car and took half the drive with him. Furious, absolutely furious.”

[idahogreys]

Footlight brooklyn

#Footlight brooklyn movie#

#Footlight brooklyn full#

There are fascinating songs in this and it is highly recommended. While it was liked by many, it was not a typical Broadway musical as it was about the Americans’ Admiral Perry going to Japan. Pacific Overtures by Sondheim tried out at the Colonial in Boston and came into New York. There are a few nice songs but it was not Broadway worthy. Music Is, by Richard Adler, directed by George Abbot, started in Seattle and then played the Kennedy Center but closed quickly when it arrived in New York City. It closed opening night on Broadway but the version we have was of an early part of the tour and is quite interesting! The revised lyrics were written by Charles Burr and Forman Brown. It had a long tour because of Yul Brynner’s popularity but in California the show took a terrible wrong turn and was made into a farce… an unfunny farce. Home Sweet Homer by Mitch Leigh originally had lyrics by Eric Siegel and was called Odyssey (both titles, of course, alluding to Homer’s Odyssey).

#Footlight brooklyn full#

We sell the studio cast of the full original score. It was revised and remounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1976 but only played four performances then transferred to New York. Going Up by Louis Hirsch originally had a moderate run in 1919. It moved to Broadway and had a healthy run and was even done in London after that. I very much liked the Paul Sorvino version and made it into my first Broadway cast album which I am very proud of.īubbling Brown Sugar was a black revue originating from Rosetta LeNoire at her Harlem based amas repertory. Carol Demas was replaced by Patti LuPone and six months later Paul Sorvino replaced Topol. Topol did not want to keep the story true to the original Baker’s Wife plot because he felt no woman would ever leave him for a younger man.

#Footlight brooklyn movie#

Producer David Merrick was the last person who would give an actor ownership of his show so Chaim Topol, from the movie Fiddler on the Roof, was chosen. A part was originally offered to Zero Mostel, who said he would only do it if he owned a part of the show. The Baker’s Wife was a Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein show. It changed songs, directors, and even story lines… eventually limping into the Mark Hellinger Theatre and only lasting 7 performances. There were many problems in telling the story of being backstairs at the White House with the president and first ladies. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – this Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner musical made to celebrate the centennial was a good idea but never really came together.