Ep370: Pattie Boyd - A Life in Pictures & Music
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Pattie Boyd's life has been surrounded by music, art and history. Once married to George Harrison, then Eric Clapton, Pattie inspired some of the greatest songs of the 20th century and witnessed key moments in music history. Today we discuss her new book 'A Life In Pictures' and many of her moments that are collective cultural touchstones.
Topics include:
- Sharing her photos in the new book
- Best practices for her photography
- Going through all her negatives
- So many songs written about Pattie
- Meeting George
- Did she know much about The Beatles prior to meeting George
- George asking Brian Epstein about getting married
- Pattie's participation in a few Beatles recordings
- Talking to George about music
- The records that George and Pattie enjoyed
- Watching Frank Sinatra record "My Way"
- Meeting Elvis
- George sharing the song "Something" with Pattie
- Pattie would hear Beatles demos as they were doing them
- Pattie's memories of Magic Alex
- Meeting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Recalling the moment of hearing of Brian Epstein's death
- Moments and Memorabilia from the Beatles
- Recollections of The Beatles breakup
- John & Yoko talking George back into the band
- Pattie's perspective of Yoko in the studio
- Did George miss being in The Beatles?
- The Beatles received a large financial offer to reform
- Wearing disguises in public
- The original Derek & the Dominos / Layla painting
- Many photographs for potential subsequent books
- Pattie left a lot of her Beatles white label promos with Eric
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection. |
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| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. |
| 0:12.4 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:16.3 | Well, hello, everyone. It's Nate. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to episode 370 of the Vinyl Guide. The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. And this week, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 370 of the Final Guide, the podcast for |
| 0:21.7 | record collectors and music nerds. And this week, holy moly, I'm sharing with you an interview |
| 0:26.8 | that I'm quite excited about, very proud of, and incredibly honored to present, a conversation |
| 0:32.7 | with Patty Boyd, who has been a witness and a participant in many key moments of music history. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, Patty, as you know, was previously married to George Harrison and Eric Clapton. |
| 0:45.2 | She was the subject of songs like Something, Layla, Wonderful Tonight, and more. |
| 0:50.7 | And Patty is a photographer and artists as well, who's released a brand new book, |
| 0:55.6 | My Life in Pictures, which is exactly that, her life in photographs, which includes many |
| 1:01.3 | elements and images that music fans will enjoy. It's an absolutely wonderful book. Patty Boyd, |
| 1:06.8 | My Life in Pictures, available wherever you get your music books, or signed copies are available |
| 1:11.8 | direct from pattyboid.co.uk. |
| 1:15.7 | Now today, Patty and I discuss all sorts of topics. |
| 1:19.6 | Meeting George, getting wrapped up in the Beatles world, sharing music and records with George, |
| 1:25.1 | watching Frank Sinatra record My Way, meeting Elvis, her recollection |
| 1:30.0 | on key Beatles moments like the passing of Brian Epstein or the various breakups of the band. |
| 1:35.8 | We also talk about Yoko in the studio, the Beatles receiving offers to reform, the original |
| 1:41.8 | Derek and the Domino's cover painting, and lots more. |
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