The Beatles song, “Something,” on the album Abbey Road was written for Boyd by Harrison. Their marriage was marked by several milestones. When they actually did marry in 1966, Boyd said, “I was so happy I thought I might burst.” He was the shy Beatle, she was the Vogue model. Pattie Boyd and George Harrison became an iconic couple. “Are you completely mad? Dump the boyfriend immediately,” Boyd recalled a friend saying to her. In A Hard Day’s Night Boyd played the part of a schoolgirl whose only line was “Prisoners.” Small a role as it may have been, it was enough to get George Harrison to notice her.Īt lunch, on set he asked her to go out with him, or more specifically, he said, “Will you marry me?” Boyd had a boyfriend at the time, so she declined.

He told her to report to London’s Paddington Station, she had been given a small bit role in a film by involving the Beatles. She worked her way to the front cover of Vogue magazine. Her modeling career took her to New York and Paris. She found work at a beauty salon but was quickly inspired to pursue modeling. A more notable result of her marrying George Harrison? Meeting his good friend Eric Clapton.īorn in Somerset, England on March 17, 1944, Pattie Boyd moved to London in 1962. But a more notable result of her casting was in meeting George Harrison, whom she went on to marry. After finding success in modeling, she was cast in the famous 1964 Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night.

Pattie Boyd was a blonde, doe-eyed girl from South West England. There are women who marry rock stars, and then there’s the woman who married two. Flickr/Wikimedia Commons Pattie Boyd with George Harrison 1966, and Eric Clapton on guitar 1975.

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