He asked, through a friend, whether Boyd would marry him the following Tuesday. “Will you marry me?”Ĭlapton’s proposal, years later, was even less romantic. Before asking Boyd to marry him, Harrison dashes off to consult with Epstein.

She fled her family’s suburban home, began a modeling career and was asked to appear as an extra in the first Beatles film, “A Hard Day’s Night.” It was on the set that she met Harrison, “the best-looking man I’d ever seen.” On their first date, they were accompanied by The Beatles’ manager and father-figure, Brian Epstein.īefore long, Boyd and Harrison married and set up house, exploring spirituality during a sojourn in India to learn from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.īoyd tells her tale in a matter-of-fact, even subdued way, but there are moments when the extraordinarily strange world of The Beatles’ breaks through. I feel very privileged to have been there.” It just all seemed to happen at the same time.

In the arts, everything emerged at the same time: poetry, writers, musicians, fashion designers, painters. “Then when the ’60s emerged, there was all of this freedom. “My parents behaved in the way they’d been treated as children themselves, which was very austere – children were seen and not really spoken to,” said Boyd, who still cuts a glamorous figure, from her shiny black boots to her blond hair and cornflower-blue eyes. The book begins a long way from the glamorous rock world, with an account of Boyd’s emotionally detached middle-class childhood – a world of secrets and silences in which “nothing was ever explained everything was a mystery.”

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