Patty Boyd to BeatlesMi: George was a sweet and funny husband

Patty Boyd to BeatlesMi: George was a sweet and funny husband.

Her life as a former model, ex-wife of George Harrison and then of Eric Clapton, and today a writer and photographer on the Mosso stage excites the Milanese Beatles fans

«We had already been divorced for some time, but we were on friendly terms. George came to visit me. I was in the darkroom, he brought me gifts, we hugged and then walked in the garden. Then he saw the little flowers among the rocks moving in the wind and said: "The flower is trembling" and I said "but no, the flowers don't tremble, the people do". He smiled and left. I never saw him again"

The sweetness of the last meeting with her ex-husband is one of the most beautiful memories I have Patty Boyd, former model, ex-wife first of George Harrison and then of Eric Clapton, and today a writer and photographer, told Davide Verrazzani on the stage of the "Mosso" a Milano during the marathon dedicated to the Fab Four by Milano Music Week. The fabulous 60s with the excesses, the contradictions but above all the great creativity at all levels, those that Patty, now seventy-eight years old married to an entrepreneur, wanted to tell.
«I was born in Kenya and when I arrived in England I had problems, I was rebellious and different from many but this meant that I got closer to George Harrison and the legendary Beatles – she said – even we models then understood that there was something in the air it was something new that everyone loved and among these new things the Beatles were truly explosive."

The first date with the great Harrison was in a sophisticated restaurant, they were 19 and 20 years old and Brian Epstein, the legendary producer of the Beatles, accompanied them. «He didn't bother me because he was an expert in wine and taught us how to behave in such a chic environment for two young people like us».
On stage Patty talked about the Beatles' approach to India, which occurred precisely through her, the great living Muse first of George who created “Something” for her and then of Eric Clapton. «George was a funny man, at home he was different from how he was seen in public, obviously, a normal man who was passionate about music. But George experienced the contradictions of life, between meditation and excesses, and it was normal for all of us and I too had a contradictory soul."

The fans really gave the Beatles a hard time, even before John Lennon's murder. Did this happen to you too? «Yes, I had haters just because I was linked to a Beatle, I wasn't ready for that, it was all new, but the fans were really crazy for them».
«They loved playing together and George was so witty that when we broke up he wrote the cover of by by love and instead of “Happy” he called me “Clippy” referring to Eric!».
George Harrison wrote Something for her, the most covered lyric in the history of the Beatles, Eric Clapton instead dedicated Layla to her, but he wrote "Wonderful Tonight" in 1976 and she is the song he keeps in his heart. The former model presented “Pattie Boyd: My Life In Pictures” (Reel Art Press) a book in which she talks about her life in front of and behind the camera. You closed the day with the concert of the cover band “Triflers” which presented the great hits of the Fab Four. before them a splendid Fabrizio Grecchi who performed the successes for Piano Solo and a great Filippo Caretti, very young frontman of BeatBox.