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.
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 1965when 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.
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