Wonderful Tonight; so-so in prose — 1 year ago
I was really hoping for great things from this book. However, Pattie Boyd, former wife of both Beatle George Harrison and guitar god Eric Clapton, inspiration of such songs as “Wonderful Tonight,” “Layla,” “Something,” etc. gives barely a peek behind the curtain of greatness.
Pattie shares much, but holds back so much of what puts you in the moment. The book is a telling of those counterculture years and beyond, in a mostly strictly factual way. There is not much of a depth of emotion.
The famous guitar duel between Clapton and Harrison over Pattie is disappointedly described in a bare paragraph or two.
It would be wholly unfair to expect that because of these two men’s utter musical genius, their muse and wife would able to demonstrate a similar literary genius in order to tell their tales. But still. That’s what I had really wanted.
