Pattie Boyd famous for marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton ties knot | Daily Mail Online comments She was the woman who inspired three of the greatest love songs of all time and was at the heart of the most famous love triangle in rock history. Married to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, model Pattie Boyd was one of the most envied women in the world. Yesterday at the age of 71, she wed for a third time – with a soundtrack provided by her Irish terrier Freddie who did his best to upstage the bride and her new groom, property developer Rod Weston. Scroll down for video Pattie Boyd has tied the knot for the third time, this time with Rod Weston at Chelsea Registry Office, Chelsea Old Town Hall, in London Pattie, photographed with Rod and their dog Freddie, was famously married to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton in the past The couple look delighted as their leave the town hall to a shower of confetti The setting was very rock and roll; Chelsea Register Office on the King’s Road, where so many of pop’s leading men and women have married over the years. But that’s where any similarity with Pattie’s famous past began and ended.

There were still splashes of style, of course, from the Bentley that took the happy couple to their wedding breakfast at the uber-trendy Beaumont Hotel in Mayfair to the presence of Pattie’s fellow Sixties model Edina Ronay. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share But there were no groupies or hangers-on as there had been when she married Clapton in 1979 or Harrison in 1966 – just a handful of close friends and family who threw confetti as Pattie and Rod, who have been together almost 25 years, emerged from the cream-painted Rossetti Room arm in arm. And in a nod to the tradition of the bride wearing something borrowed, Patti wore a hat owned by her late friend Pat Booth, the model turned best-selling author who died of cancer in 2009. Friends of the couple, who live in Kensington, feared they would never tie the knot. ‘It’s almost our silver anniversary so we thought we had better get on with it,’ said Weston, 61.

George Harrison (who died in November 2001) and Pattie Boyd, 21, leave Epsom Registrar Office after their marriage in January 1966 Eric Clapton married Pattie Boyd, the ex-wife of his friend George Harrison, in 1979 Since settling down with Weston, Pattie, a former Vogue cover girl, has turned herself into an accomplished photographer and her pictures have been exhibited all over the world. With the death of John Lennon’s ex-wife Cynthia last month, convent-educated Pattie is now the sole surviving first wife of a Beatle. Born in Somerset, she met Harrison on the set of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, when she was cast as a schoolgirl in The Beatles’ first film. They were married two years later when she was 21 and Harrison, 22. He later wrote the song Something for her. It was by no means the only famous song composed for the bewitching beauty.

The 70-year-old model, photographer and author, has found love for the third time with Weston Pattie showcased her age-defying good looks and sartorial prowess in a chic silver and blue coat jacket and silver dress She accessorised her look with silver sandals and an oversized hat, and carried a posy of flowers as her guests showered her and her new husband with confetti Eric Clapton, who pursued her passionately, rhapsodised about her refusal to abandon Harrison for him with his anguished and electrifying hit Layla. He also wrote his most famous ballad, Wonderful Tonight, for her. In her 2007 memoir, Wonderful Today, Pattie broke 35 years of silence to describe how after years of mutual anguish which pushed Clapton to the brink of a drug-induced breakdown, she eventually left Harrison to marry Clapton. Her affair with the guitarist started in 1970 after he played Layla to her for the first time. She said: ‘He played it to me two or three times, all the while watching my face intently for my reaction.

My first thought was, “Oh God, everyone’s going to know this is about me.’’ Pattie, now 71, met property developer Rod back in 1991 and he became her long-term partner Pattie with her mother and Diana and sister Jenny at her wedding on Thursday Pattie, who has graced the cover of Vogue numerous times, and had three of arguably the greatest love songs ever written for her, has had some of the most high-profile relationships of all time The first time that Pattie tied the knot was to George Harrison in January 1966 and legend Paul McCartney was best man ‘I was married to Eric’s close friend George Harrison, but Eric had been making his desire for me clear for months. ‘But with the realisation that I had inspired such passion and creativity, the song got the better of me. I could resist no longer.’ Later that day, Clapton confronted Harrison and said: ‘I have to tell you, man, that I’m in love with your wife.’ They finally got together in 1974, marrying five years later. But while the songs have gone into rock history the marriage did not last and they split up in 1984.

For Pattie, life these days is a lot less complicated and the bridge-playing former rock chick is happy to start a new chapter in her extraordinary life. George Harrison - The Beatles The Beatles George Harrison George Harrison George Harrison, (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as the "quiet Beatle", Harrison over time became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing it to the other Beatles, as well as to their Western audience.Following the band's break-up, he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Among his many accomplishments, Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most Beatles songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Beatles albums generally included one or two of Harrison's compositions.His later compositions with the Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he recorded and released as the triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". With Ravi Shankar, Harrison organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, widely regarded as the first major benefit concert. In his capacity as a songwriter, he penned two hit singles for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. In addition to his musical career, he also produced records and co-founded the production company HandMade Films. Harrison was married twice, first to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1977, and from 1978 until his death to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison.

Beginning in the mid-1960s, Harrison was closely tied to the Hare Krishna movement, and in many interviews he spoke on the subject of his mystical beliefs. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton, and is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography—I Me Mine (1980). Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. Early years: 1943–1957 Harrison was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 25 February 1943,the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise (née French). He had one sister, Louise (born 16 August 1931), and two brothers, Harry (born 1934) and Peter (born 20 July 1940). His mother was a Liverpool shop assistant, and his father was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line. His mother's family had Irish roots and were Roman Catholic; his maternal grandfather, John French, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, emigrating to Liverpool where he married a local woman, Louise Woollam.

Harrison's birthplace was also the home in which he lived for the first six years of his life: 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, which was a small two-up, two-down terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with an alley to the rear. The house had an outdoor toilet and its only heat came from a single coal fire. In 1950, the family were offered a council house, and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke. He first attended school at Dovedale Primary School, nearby to Penny Lane, the same school attended by John Lennon, several years Harrison's senior. He passed his 11-plus examination and achieved a place at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building that now houses the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), which he attended from 1954 to 1959. [ Harrison said that, when he was 12 or 13, he had an epiphany of sorts — riding a bike around his neighbourhood, he heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" playing from a nearby house; the song piqued Harrison's interest in rock and roll.

Even though he had done well enough on his 11-plus examination to get into the city's best high school, from that point on, the former good student lost interest in school. At age 14, Harrison sat at the back of the class and would often draw guitars in his schoolbooks. “I was totally into guitars,” he later said. “I heard about this kid at school who had a guitar at £3 10s, it was just a little acoustic round hole. I got the £3 10s from my mother: that was a lot of money for us then.” Harrison bought a Dutch Egmond flat top acoustic guitar. While at the Liverpool Institute, Harrison formed a skiffle group called the Rebels with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly. On the bus to school, Harrison met Paul McCartney, who was eight months older than him. McCartney later became a member of Lennon's band, the Quarrymen. The Beatles: 1957–1970 Harrison joined the Beatles when they were still a skiffle group called the Quarrymen.

He first auditioned for the band at Rory Storm 's Morgue Skiffle Club, playing "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" (by Bert Weedon ) in March 1958. However, Lennon felt that Harrison, then 14, was too young to join the band. During a second meeting, engineered by McCartney on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, Harrison performed the lead guitar part for the song " Raunchy ". Soon thereafter, Harrison began socializing with the group, and filled in on guitar as needed. By the time Harrison turned 15, Lennon and the others had accepted him as one of the band. Since Harrison was the youngest member of the group, he was looked upon as a kid by the others for another few years Harrison left school at 16 and worked as an apprentice electrician at local department store Blacklers for several months. During a low period in the band's activity, Harrison attempted to join Rory Storm's Tornados, but was turned down by Storm's mother, who believed that Harrison was too young. Harrison then joined the Les Stewart Quartet with Les Stewart, guitarist Ken Brown, and Geoff Skinner.

Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club on 29 August 1959, and Brown arranged for the quartet to be its resident band. When Brown missed rehearsals to help decorate the Casbah, Stewart refused to play. Brown and Harrison recruited Lennon and McCartney at short notice to help them fill the residency, reactivating the Quarrymen name for the occasion. The Beatles were offered an engagement in Hamburg in 1960, and soon began playing at the Kaiserkeller . The musical apprenticeship that Harrison received playing long hours with the rest of the group, as well as the guitar lessons he took from Tony Sheridan, laid the foundations of the Beatles' sound, and of Harrison's quiet, professional role within the group; this role would soon contribute to his reputation as "the quiet Beatle".The band's first trip to Hamburg was shortened when Harrison was deported for being under age. When Brian Epstein became the Beatles' manager in December 1961, he changed their image from that of leather-jacketed rock-and-rollers to a more polished, professional look, securing them a recording contract with EMI in the process.

The group's first single, " Love Me Do ", featuring Harrison playing a Gibson J-160E , reached number 17 in the UK chart in October 1962, and by the time their debut album, Please Please Me , was released in early 1963, the Beatles had become famous and Beatlemania had arrived. After Harrison revealed in an interview that he liked jelly babies , British fans inundated the Beatles with boxes of the sweets as gifts. A few months later, American audiences showered them with the much harder jelly beans instead. In a letter to a fan, Harrison later insisted that no one in the band actually liked jelly babies, and that the press must have made it up. The popularity of the Beatles led to a successful tour of the United States and the making of the film A Hard Day's Night , during which Harrison met his future wife Pattie Boyd . In the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours , all four Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Harrison, whose role within the group was that of the careful musician who checked that the instruments were tuned, by 1965 and the Rubber Soul album, was developing into a musical director as he led the others into folk-rock , via his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan , and into Indian music with his exploration of the sitar . Harrison's musical involvement with the Beatles reached its peak on Revolver in 1966 with his contribution of three songs and new musical ideas. By 1967, Harrison's interests appeared to be moving outside the Beatles, and his involvement in the seminal album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band consists mainly of his song " Within You Without You ", on which no other Beatle plays, and which stands out for its difference from the rest of the album's compositions. During the recording of The Beatles (commonly known as the White Album) in 1968, tensions were high in the band, with drummer Ringo Starr briefly quitting. These troubles surfaced again during the filming of rehearsal sessions at Twickenham Studios in early 1969 for what later became the album and film Let It Be.

Frustrated by the poor working conditions in the cold and sterile film studio, as well as by Lennon's creative disengagement from the group and what he[ who? ] perceived as a domineering attitude from McCartney, Harrison quit the band on 10 January. Following negotiations with the other Beatles at two business meetings, he agreed to return twelve days later. Relations among the Beatles were more cordial, though still strained, during recording sessions for Abbey Road , which was to become the band's final recorded album. Abbey Road included two Harrison compositions: " Here Comes the Sun " and " Something ". "Something" was later recorded by Frank Sinatra , who considered it "the greatest love song of the past fifty years," despite crediting its composition to Lennon and McCartney. Harrison's increasing productivity, coupled with his difficulties in getting the other Beatles to record his music, meant that by the end of the group's career he had amassed a considerable stockpile of unreleased materialHarrison's last recording session with the Beatles prior to the band's break-up was on 4 January 1970. Lennon, who had privately left the group the previous September, did not attend the session.

Solo work: 1968–1987 Before the Beatles split up in 1970, Harrison had already recorded and released two solo albums, Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound . These albums were mainly instrumental. Wonderwall Music was a soundtrack to the Wonderwall film in which Harrison blended Indian and Western sounds; while Electronic Sound was an experiment in using a Moog synthesizer . It was only when Harrison was free from the Beatles that he released what is regarded as his first solo album, the commercially successful and critically acclaimed All Things Must Pass . All Things Must Pass: 1970 After years of being restricted in his songwriting contributions to the Beatles, All Things Must Pass contained such a large outpouring of Harrison's songs that it was released as a triple album , though only two of the discs contained songs—the third contained recordings of Harrison jamming with friends. The album is regarded as his best work;[ it was a critical and commercial success, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and produced the number-one hit single " My Sweet Lord " as well as the top-10 single " What Is Life ".

The album was co-produced by Phil Spector using his " Wall of Sound " approach, and the musicians included Eric Clapton , Dave Mason , Gary Wright , Billy Preston , and Ringo Starr. Later sued for copyright infringement over the song "My Sweet Lord" due to its similarity to the 1963 Chiffons song " He's So Fine ", owned by Bright Tunes, Harrison denied deliberately plagiarising the song, but he lost the resulting court case in 1976, as the judge deemed that Harrison had subconsciously plagiarised "He's So Fine". When considering liable earnings, "My Sweet Lord"'s contribution to the sales of All Things Must Pass and The Best of George Harrison were taken into account, and the judge decided a figure of $1,599,987 was owed to Bright Tunes. The dispute over damages became complicated when Harrison's former manager Allen Klein purchased the copyright to "He's So Fine" from Bright Tunes in 1978.

In 1981, a district judge decided that Klein had acted improperly, and it was agreed that Harrison should pay Klein $587,000, the amount Klein had paid for "He's So Fine", so he would gain nothing from the deal, and that Harrison would take over ownership of Bright Tunes, making him the owner of the rights to both songs and thus ending the copyright infringement claim. Though the dispute dragged on into the 1990s, the district judge's decision was upheld. The Concert for Bangladesh: 1971 Responding to a request for help by longtime friend Ravi Shankar , Harrison organized a major charity concert, The Concert for Bangladesh, on 1 August 1971, drawing over 40,000 people to two shows in New York's Madison Square Garden . The aim of the event was to raise money to aid the starving refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War .

Ravi Shankar opened the proceedings, which included other popular musicians such as Dylan (who rarely appeared live in the early 1970s), Clapton, who made his first public appearance in months (owing to a heroin addiction which began when Derek and the Dominos broke up), Leon Russell , Badfinger , Billy Preston and fellow Beatle Starr. Tax troubles and questionable expenses tied up many of the concert's proceeds. Apple Corporation released a newly arranged concert DVD and CD in October 2005 (with all artists' sales royalties continuing to go to UNICEF ), which contained additional material such as previously unreleased rehearsal footage of " If Not for You ", featuring Harrison and Dylan. Living in the Material World to George Harrison: 1972–1979 Harrison would not again release an album that came close to the critical and commercial achievements of All Things Must Pass.

Although 1973's Living in the Material World initially did well, holding the number one spot on the US album chart for five weeks and reaching number two in the UK, and the album's single, " Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) ", was also successful, reaching number one in the US and the top ten in the UK, neither could match the sales of All Things Must Pass and "My Sweet Lord". The album was lavishly produced and packaged, and its dominant message was the power of Harrison's Hindu beliefs. [63] The one fully secular song, " Sue Me, Sue You Blues ", expressed Harrison's disgust with the endless legal squabbling of the former Beatles. The Dark Horse album of 1974 written after Harrison's break-up with his wife Pattie Boyd and when he was suffering from laryngitis received harsh reviews, as did his accompanying tour of North America. Harrison was criticized for poor songwriting and poor vocals on the album, and for over-indulging his love for Indian music during the tour. [ The album and single " Dark Horse " did briefly make an appearance near the top of the US charts, but both failed to chart in the UK.

[ His final studio album for EMI (and Apple Records) was Extra Texture (Read All About It) , featuring a diecut cover. The album spawned two singles, " You " which reached the Billboard top 20 and " This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) ", which became Apple's final original single release in December 1975. Following the former Beatle's departure from Capitol, the record company was in a position to license releases featuring Beatles and post-Beatles work on the same album, using Harrison for this experiment. The Best of George Harrison (1976) combined his Beatles songs with a selection of his solo Apple work. Thirty Three & 1/3 , his first Dark Horse release, was his most successful late-1970s album, reaching number 11 on the US charts in 1976, and producing the singles " This Song " (a satire of the " My Sweet Lord "-" He's So Fine " court case ruling) and " Crackerbox Palace ", both of which reached the top 25 in the US.

With an emphasis on melody, musicianship, and subtler subject matter rather than the heavy orchestration and didactic messaging of earlier works, he received his best critical notices since All Things Must Pass. With its surreal humour , "Crackerbox Palace" also reflected Harrison's association with Monty Python 's Eric Idle , who directed a comic music video for the song. After his second marriage and the birth of son Dhani , Harrison next released an eponymous album — 1979's George Harrison — which included the singles " Blow Away ", " Love Comes to Everyone " and " Faster ". Both the album and "Blow Away" made the Billboard top 20. In addition to his own works during this time, between 1971 and 1973 Harrison co-wrote or produced three top ten US and UK hits for Ringo Starr (" It Don't Come Easy ", " Back Off Boogaloo ", and " Photograph "). Harrison played electric, slide and dobro guitars on five songs on Lennon's 1971 Imagine album (" How Do You Sleep?

", " Oh My Love ", " I Don't Want to Be a Soldier ", " Crippled Inside " and " Gimme Some Truth "), with his stinging slide guitar work on the first of these suggesting that he took John's side of the intense Lennon-McCartney feud of the time. Lennon later said of Harrison's work on the album, "That's the best he's ever fucking played in his life!" [71] Harrison also produced and played slide guitar on the Apple band Badfinger 's 1971 top ten US and UK hit " Day After Day ". During the decade, Harrison also worked with Harry Nilsson ("You're Breakin' My Heart", 1972), as well as Billy Preston (" That's the Way God Planned It ", 1969, and " It's My Pleasure ", 1975) and Cheech & Chong (" Basketball Jones ", 1973).He also appeared with Paul Simon to perform two acoustic songs on Saturday Night Live in 1976.

Somewhere in England to Cloud Nine: 1980–1987 Harrison was deeply shocked by the 8 December 1980 murder of John Lennon . The crime reinforced his decades-long worries about safety from stalkers . It was also a deep personal loss, although unlike former bandmates McCartney and Starr, Harrison had had little contact with Lennon in the years before the murder. Their estrangement had been marked by Harrison's longstanding dislike of Lennon's wife Yoko Ono , his refusal to allow her participation in the Concert for Bangladesh, and, during the last year of Lennon's life, by Harrison's scant mention of Lennon in his autobiography, I, Me, Mine , published several months before Lennon's death. The omission had upset Lennon greatly, which Harrison had regretted, leading him to leave a telephone message for Lennon, but Lennon had declined to return the call and they had not spoken again. Following the murder, Harrison said, "After all we went through together I had and still have great love and respect for John Lennon. I am shocked and stunned. To rob life is the ultimate robbery in life." Harrison modified the lyrics of a song he had written for Starr to make it a tribute song to Lennon.

" All Those Years Ago " received substantial radio airplay, reaching number two on the US charts. Although released as a Harrison single, all three surviving ex-Beatles performed on the track. "Teardrops" was issued as a follow-up single, but was not nearly as successful. Both singles came from the album Somewhere in England , released in 1981. Originally slated for release in late 1980, Warner Bros. rejected the album, directing Harrison to replace several tracks and change the album cover. The original album cover that Harrison preferred was used in the 2004 reissue. In 1981, Harrison played guitar on one track of Mick Fleetwood 's record The Visitor and on Lindsey Buckingham 's song "Walk a Thin Line". Aside from a song on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack in 1985 (his version of a little-known Bob Dylan song " I Don't Want to Do It "), Harrison released no new records for five years after 1982's Gone Troppo album received little notice from critics and the public.

In October 1985, Harrison made a rare public appearance on the Cinemax Channel 4 live concert TV special in a tribute to Carl Perkins . He appeared along with Starr and Clapton, among others. The show was entitled Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session , and Harrison performed " Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby ", "Your True Love", " That's Alright Mama " (including the guitar solo), " Glad All Over " (including the guitar solo), "Gone Gone Gone" and " Blue Suede Shoes ". He agreed to appear because he had been an admirer and close friend of Perkins for over two decades. In 1987, Harrison returned to the record business with the critically acclaimed platinum album Cloud Nine , co-produced with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra , and enjoyed a hit (number one in the US; number two in the UK) when his rendition of James Ray's early 1960s number " Got My Mind Set on You " was released as a single; another single, " When We Was Fab ", a retrospective of the Beatles era complete with distinct musical flavours representing each band member, was also a minor hit.

MTV regularly played the two videos, elevating Harrison's public profile with another generation of music listeners. The album reached number eight and number ten on the US and UK charts, respectively. In the US, several tracks also enjoyed high placement on Billboard's Album Rock chart – "Devil's Radio", " This Is Love " and "Cloud 9", in addition to the aforementioned singles. Live performances: 1971–1992 On 23 November 1971, Harrison appeared on an episode of The Dick Cavett Show performing a song written by Gary Wright called "Two Faced Man" with a band called Wonder Wheel. Harrison played slide guitar with this band as a favour, to reciprocate Wright's playing piano on Harrison's album All Things Must Pass. The episode can be viewed on the DVD titled The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons Disc 3. In 1974, Harrison launched what would be his final tour of the United States. Critics and fans panned the shows for their long mid-concert act featuring Pandit Ravi Shankar & Friends and for Harrison's hoarse voice.

Harrison had hired filmmaker David Acomba to accompany the tour and gather footage for a documentary. Due to Harrison's vocal problems throughout most of this tour, they did not release the film. However, in 1977, Acomba placed a newly revised director's cut in the Harrison archive. In 1986, Harrison made a surprise performance at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 , a concert event to raise money for the Birmingham Children's Hospital . Harrison played and sang the finale " Johnny B. Goode " along with Robert Plant , the Moody Blues , and Electric Light Orchestra , among others. The following year, Harrison appeared at The Prince's Trust concert in Wembley Arena , performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun" with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and others. On 1 May 1990, during Eric Clapton's Journey Man Tour, Harrison joined Clapton on stage at the L.A. Forum, performing "Crossroads" and "Sunshine Of Your Love".In 1991, Harrison staged a tour of Japan along with Clapton.

It was his first tour since the 1974 US tour, but no other tours followed. The Live in Japan recording came from these shows. On 6 April 1992, Harrison held a benefit concert for the Natural Law Party at the Royal Albert Hall , his first London performance since the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert. In October 1992, Harrison performed three songs, " If Not for You ", " Absolutely Sweet Marie ", and " My Back Pages ", at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. A recording of this performance was released on the album The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration in August 1993. On 14 December 1992, Harrison took part in a memorial concert at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles for Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro . The concert featured an all-star line-up that included Boz Scaggs , Donald Fagen , Don Henley , Michael McDonald , David Crosby , Eddie Van Halen , and the surviving members of Toto. The proceeds of the concert were used to establish an educational trust fund for Porcaro's children.

Later life: 1988–2001 Early in 1989, Harrison, Lynne and Starr all appeared in the music video for Tom Petty 's song "I Won't Back Down", although Starr did not actually play on the track; Harrison played acoustic guitar. The same year also saw the release of Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 , a compilation drawn from his later solo work. This album also included two new songs, "Poor Little Girl", and "Cockamamie Business" (which saw him once again looking wryly upon his past as a Beatle), as well as " Cheer Down ", which was co-written with Petty and had first been released earlier in the year on the soundtrack to the film Lethal Weapon 2 . Unlike his previous greatest hits package, Harrison made sure to oversee this compilation. Later that year, Harrison played slide guitar on the songs " Leave a Light On " and "Deep Deep Ocean" from Belinda Carlisle 's third album, Runaway Horses . "Leave a Light On" was successful worldwide.

In 1996, Harrison recorded, produced and played on "Distance Makes No Difference With Love" with Carl Perkins for his Go-Cat-Go record. Harrison's final television appearance was not intended as such; in fact, he was not the featured artist, and the appearance had been intended to promote Chants of India, another collaboration with Ravi Shankar released in 1997, at the height of interest in chant music. John Fugelsang , then of VH1 , conducted the interview, and at one point an acoustic guitar was produced and handed to Harrison. When an audience member asked to hear "a Beatles song", Harrison gave a sheepish look and answered, "I don't think I know any!" Harrison then played "All Things Must Pass", the Traveling Wilburys song “If You Belonged to Me”, and revealed for the first time "Any Road", which subsequently appeared on the 2002 album Brainwashed . In January 1998, Harrison attended the funeral of his boyhood idol, Perkins, in Jackson, Tennessee . Harrison played an impromptu version of Perkins' song "Your True Love" during the service.

That same year he attended the public memorial service for Linda McCartney , in addition to appearing on Starr's album Vertical Man , playing electric and slide guitars on two tracks. In 2001, Harrison performed as a guest musician on the Electric Light Orchestra album Zoom . He played slide guitar on the song "Love Letters" for Bill Wyman 's Rhythm Kings, and remastered and restored unreleased tracks from the Traveling Wilburys. He also co-wrote a new song with his son Dhani, " Horse to the Water ". The latter song ended up as Harrison's final recording session, on 2 October, just eight weeks before his death. It appeared on Jools Holland 's album Small World, Big Band. Harrison's final album, Brainwashed, was completed by Dhani Harrison and Jeff Lynne and released on 18 November 2002. It received generally positive reviews in the United States, and peaked at number 18 on the Billboard charts .

A media-only single, " Stuck Inside a Cloud ", was heavily played on UK and US radio to promote the album (number 27 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart), while the official single " Any Road ", released in May 2003, reached number 37 on the British chart. The instrumental track, "Marwa Blues" went on to receive the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance , while the single "Any Road" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance . The Traveling Wilburys: 1988–1990 In 1988, Harrison played an instrumental role in forming the Traveling Wilburys with Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison , Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty when they gathered in Dylan's garage to quickly record an additional track for a projected Harrison European single release. The record company realized the track (" Handle With Care ") was too good for its original purpose as a B-side and asked for a full, separate album. This had to be completed within two weeks, as Dylan was scheduled to start a tour. The album, Traveling Wilburys Vol.

1 , was released in October 1988 and recorded under pseudonyms as half-brothers (supposed sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.). Harrison's pseudonym on the first album was "Nelson Wilbury"; he would use the name "Spike Wilbury" for the Traveling Wilburys' second album. After the death of Roy Orbison in late 1988 the group recorded as a four-piece. Though Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 was their second release, the album was mischievously titled Vol. 3 by Harrison. According to Lynne, "That was George's idea. He said, 'Let's confuse the buggers.'" [90] It was not as well received as the previous album, but did reach number 14 in the UK and number 11 in the US where it went platinum, while the singles " She's My Baby ", "Inside Out", and " Wilbury Twist " received some air play. The Wilburys never performed live, though the subject of a possible performance was discussed privately among the band members. "George often talked about it," Petty later stated in an interview.

"Especially when we'd have a few drinks he'd get very keen on the idea. And then the next day he'd be not so keen on it. The group did not record together again following the release of their second album. The Beatles Anthology: 1994–1996 In 1994–1996, Harrison collaborated with the surviving former Beatles, and Traveling Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne for The Beatles Anthology project, which included the recording of two new Beatles songs built around solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by John Lennon in the late 1970s, as well as the lengthy interviews on the Beatles' history. The single " Free as a Bird ", was the first Beatles single since " The Long and Winding Road " in 1970. HandMade Films: 1978–1994 In 1978, Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brien formed the film production and distribution company, HandMade Films.

Created to promote the Monty Python troupe, it raised £2 million to finish their film Life of Brian after EMI Films , the original financiers, withdrew their funding due to the film's controversial, satirical content. Though the company was formed with the intention of funding only the one film (a scenario which was described by Idle as "the most anybody's ever paid for a cinema ticket in history"),Harrison and O'Brien bought the rights to The Long Good Friday , which had been faced with various cuts, and released it in its original form. The first film produced under the company was 1981'S Time Bandits , equipped with a soundtrack by Harrison, a solo project by Python Terry Gilliam for whom HandMade originally also was to finance The Adventures of Baron Munchausen before several funding parties including HandMade dropped out of the project. Harrison produced twenty three films with HandMade, including Mona Lisa , Shanghai Surprise , and Withnail and I . He made several cameo appearances in these movies, including a role as a nightclub singer in Shanghai Surprise and as Mr Papadopolous in Life of Brian. Handmade Films became a rarity in the British film industry, a production company that was both consistently successful and internationally known.

The company was well regarded both for nurturing British talent and for most of its films having British settings or inspirations. Harrison was involved in some creative decisions, approving projects such as Withnail and Iand visiting sets as executive producer to sort out creative problems. On the whole, though, he preferred to stay out of the way: "[As a musician] I've been the person who's said of the people with the money, 'What do they know?' and now I'm that person. But I know that unless you give an artist as much freedom as possible, there's no point in using that artist." The bulk of the financial and business decisions were left to O'Brien, who was tasked with making sure that films got made on time and on budget. This eventually resulted in disagreements and lawsuits between the pair as HandMade Films encountered reversals, and Harrison sold the company in 1994. Relationships with the other Beatles For most of the Beatles' career, the relationships in the group were extremely close and intimate. According to Hunter Davies , "the Beatles spent their lives not living a communal life, but communally living the same life.

They were each other's greatest friends." Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd described how the Beatles "all belonged to each other" and admitted, "George has a lot with the others that I can never know about. Nobody, not even the wives, can break through or even comprehend it." Starr also stated, "We really looked out for each other and we had so many laughs together. In the old days we'd have the biggest hotel suites, the whole floor of the hotel, and the four of us would end up in the bathroom, just to be with each other." and added "There were some really loving, caring moments between four people: a hotel room here and there – a really amazing closeness. Just four guys who loved each other. It was pretty sensational Lennon stated that his relationship with Harrison was "one of young follower and older guy", and stated that he "was like a disciple of mine when we started." The two would often go on holiday together throughout the 1960s, but their relationship took a severe turn for the worse after George published his autobiography, I, Me, Mine in 1980. Lennon felt insulted and hurt that George mentioned him only in passing.

The book mentions Lennon 11 times, which is higher than the number of mentions received by McCartney, the Beatles, Clapton, or even George's second wife, Olivia .Nevertheless, Lennon claimed he was hurt by the book and also that he did more for George than any of the other Beatles. As a result, George and John were not on good terms during the last months of Lennon's life. After Lennon's murder, George paid tribute to Lennon with the song " All Those Years Ago " which was released in 1981, six months after Lennon's murder. It contains the lyric "I always look up to you", suggesting implicit agreement with Lennon's appraisal of their relationship McCartney has often referred to Harrison as his "baby brother", and he did the honours as best man at the younger man's wedding in 1966. The two were the first of the Beatles to meet, having shared a school bus, and would often learn and rehearse new guitar chords together. McCartney stated that he and George usually shared a bedroom while touring.

Musicianship Guitar work Although not fast or flashy, Harrison's guitar work with the Beatles was solid and typified the more subdued lead guitar style of the early 1960s. [112] The influence of the plucking guitar style of Chet Atkins and Carl Perkins on Harrison gave a country music feel to many of the Beatles' early recordings. [113] Harrison also explored other instruments, including the twelve-string guitar , the sitar and the slide guitar , and developed his playing from tight eight- and twelve-bar solos in such songs as " A Hard Day's Night " and " Can't Buy Me Love ", [113] to more complex slide guitar playing, [114] first recorded during an early session of " If Not for You " for Dylan's New Morning in 1970. [115] The earliest example of notable guitar work from Harrison was the extended acoustic guitar solo of " And I Love Her ", for which Harrison purchased a José Ramírez nylon-stringed classical guitar to produce the sensitivity needed.

"Till There Was You" Sunglasses, Photo sessions and Robert whittaker on Pinterest ‘ Acclaimed Beatles artist, Shannon, has been commissioned to create more than 110 pieces of original artwork for the Hard Day's Night Beatles-themed hotel. See more Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' - Part One | Daily Mail Online Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' - Part One Last updated at 08:58 06 August 2007 George Harrison wrote the love song Something for his wife Pattie Boyd. Eric Clapton wrote Layla for her. Theirs was the most extraordinary love triangle in rock history. Now, after four decades of silence, the woman who drove two music legends wild tells the raw, unexpurgated story of her life... We met secretly at a flat in South Kensington. Eric Clapton had asked me to come because he wanted me to listen to a new number he had written. He switched on the tape machine, turned up the volume and played me the most powerful, moving song I had ever heard.

It was Layla, about a man who falls hopelessly in love with a woman who loves him but is unavailable. He played it to me two or three times, all the while watching my face intently for my reaction. My first thought was: 'Oh God, everyone's going to know this is about me.' Scroll down for more... I was married to Eric's close friend, George Harrison, but Eric had been making his desire for me clear for months. I felt uncomfortable that he was pushing me in a direction in which I wasn't certain I wanted to go. Scroll down to view an exclusive video interview with Pattie... But with the realisation that I had inspired such passion and creativity, the song got the better of me. I could resist no longer. That evening I was going to the theatre to see Oh! Calcutta! with a friend and then on to a party at the home of pop impresario Robert Stigwood. George didn't want to go to the show or the party. After the interval at Oh!Calcutta! I came back to find Eric in the next seat, having persuaded a stranger to swap places with him. Afterwards we went to Robert's house separately but we were soon together.

It was a great party and I felt elated by what had happened earlier in the day but also deeply guilty. During the early hours, George appeared. He was morose and his mood was not improved by walking into a party that had been going on for several hours and where most of the guests were high on drugs. He kept asking 'Where's Pattie?' but no one seemed to know. He was about to leave when he spotted me in the garden with Eric. It was just getting light, and very misty. George came over and demanded: 'What's going on?' To my horror, Eric said: 'I have to tell you, man, that I'm in love with your wife.' I wanted to die. George was furious. He turned to me and said: 'Well, are you going with him or coming with me?' I had met George six years previously, in 1964, when he was filming A Hard Day's Night. Britain and most of Europe was in the grip of Beatlemania. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were mobbed everywhere they went, and at their concerts thousands of hysterical teenagers cried and screamed so loudly that no one could hear the music.

Shortly before they started shooting A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles took America by storm. In February 1964 they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, one of America's most prestigious programmes, and attracted an audience of 73million. I was a model, working with some of the most successful photographers in London, including David Bailey and Terence Donovan. I was appearing in newspapers and magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, but in March my agent sent me along to a casting session for a film. Scroll down to view an exclusive video interview with Pattie... She called later to tell me I had been offered the part of a schoolgirl fan in a Beatles film. On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute and George, with velvet-brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I had ever seen. At a break for lunch I found myself sitting next to him. Being close to him was electrifying. Almost the first thing he said to me was: 'Will you marry me?' He was joking but there was a hint of seriousness.

We got together soon after that and married two years later on January 21, 1966. I was 21, he was 22. I was so happy and so much in love. I thought we would be together and happy for ever. Three years later, in 1969, George wrote a song called Something. He told me in a matter-of-fact way that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions. Frank Sinatra said he thought it was the best love song ever written. George's favourite version was the one by James Brown. Mine was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in our kitchen. But, in fact, by then our relationship was in trouble. Since a trip to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India in 1968, George had become obsessive about meditation. He was also sometimes withdrawn and depressed. My moods started to mirror his and at times I felt almost suicidal.

I don't think I was ever in any real danger of killing myself but I got as far as working out how I would do it: put on a diaphanous Ossie Clark dress and throw myself off Beachy Head. Scroll down to view an exclusive video interview with Pattie... And there were other women, which really hurt me. George was fascinated by the god Krishna who was always surrounded by young maidens. He came back from India wanting to be some kind of Krishna figure, a spiritual being with lots of concubines. He actually said so. No woman was out of bounds. I was friendly with a French girl who was going out with Eric Clapton. When she and Eric broke up, she came to stay with us at our house, Kinfauns, in Esher, Surrey. She didn't seem remotely upset about Eric and was uncomfortably close to George. Something was going on between them but when I questioned George he told me my imagination was running away with me, that I was paranoid. I left to stay with friends and within days George phoned to say the girl had gone. I returned home but I was shocked that he could do such a thing to me. I felt unloved and miserable.

It was around this time that Eric began to come over to our house. He and George had become close friends, writing and recording music together. Eric's guitar playing was held in awe by his fellow musicians. Graffiti declaring 'Clapton is God' had been scrawled on the London Underground, and he was an incredibly exciting performer to watch. He looked wonderful on stage, very sexy. But when I met him he didn't behave like a rock star – he was surprisingly shy and reticent. I was aware that Eric found me attractive and I enjoyed the attention he paid me. It was hard not to be flattered when I caught him staring at me or when he chose to sit beside me. He complimented me on what I was wearing and the food I had cooked, and he said things he knew would make me laugh. Those were all things that George no longer did. One night in December 1969 I took my 17-year-old sister Paula to see Eric play in Liverpool. Paula was very pretty and a bit of a wild child, and that night Eric fell for her. After the show we all went to a restaurant and everyone was quite drunk and raucous.

When the rest of us went back to the hotel, we left Eric and Paula dancing. The next night Eric was playing in Croydon and again Paula and I went to watch, and again there was a wild after-show party, this time at Eric's Italianate manor house, Hurtwood Edge in Ewhurst, Surrey. Soon after, Paula moved in with Eric. In March 1970, George and I moved into a new house. Friar Park was a magnificent Victorian Gothic pile near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, with 25 bedrooms, a ballroom, a library, a formal garden of 12 acres and a further 20 acres of land. One morning shortly after moving in, a letter arrived for me with the words 'express' and 'urgent' written on the envelope. Inside I found a small piece of paper. In small, immaculate writing, with no capital letters, I read: 'dearest l,'as you have probably gathered, my own home affairs are a galloping farce, which is rapidly degenerating day by intolerable day . . .

it seems like an eternity since i last saw or spoke to you!' He needed to ascertain my feelings: id I still love my husband or did I have another lover? More crucially, did I still have feelings in my heart for him? He had to know, and urged me to write. 'please do this, whatever it may say, my mind will be at rest . . .'all my love, e.' I assumed it was from some weirdo. I got fan mail occasionally – when I wasn't getting hate mail from George's fans. I showed it to George and others who were at the house. They laughed and dismissed it, as I had. That evening the phone rang. It was Eric. 'Did you get my letter?' he asked. Exclusive video interview...

Question: Pattie Boyd, George Harrison’s first wife, was cast as a schoolgirl fan in which Beatles film?
Answer: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’