Pattie Boyd's "Wonderful Tonight"

August 30, 2007 (WLS) -- For the first time ever Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, a high-profile model whose face epitomizd the swinging London scene of the Sixties, a woman who inspired Harrison's song "Something" and Clapton's anthem "Layla," has decided to tell her story. An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a 40-year silence in WONDERFUL TONIGHT, as she tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll.

She met the Beatles in 1963 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day' Night. Ten days later a smitten George Harrison proposed. For 20 year-old Pattie Boyd it was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles inner circle - a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck and a veritable Who's Who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the music-making and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Paul and Linda, Cynthia and John, Ringo and Maureen, and especially the years with her husband, George.

It was a sweet, turbulent life, but a life that was going to take an unexpected turn that started with a simple note in the mail. It was a love letter from Eric Clapton, which Pattie at first dismissed, but then found she could not ignore. And so began Pattie's second great love affair, and eventual marriage to the singer.

Pattie Boyd is now an acclaimed photographer; the book will contain many of her personal photos.

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