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Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor: Wonderful Tonight – George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me (Harmony Books)

Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 19 September 2007

SHE IS PERHAPS rock's most famous muse: Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton. This lithe, leggy, blonde fashion model directly inspired a troika of classic rock's most enduring songs: 'Something', by the Beatles, and 'Layla' and 'Wonderful Tonight', by Eric Clapton. Her famous marriages have long held a soap-opera like fascination, considering Slowhand basically stole her from the Quiet Beatle, despite the two guitarists' close friendship.

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