Wonderful Today
{{Short description|2007 book by Pattie Boyd and Penny Junor}}
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|author = Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor
|country = United Kingdom
|language = English
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|genre = Autobiography, memoir
|published = Headline Review
|release_date = 23 August 2007
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|pages = 320
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|isbn = 978-0-755316427
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Wonderful Today, subtitled The Autobiography, is the 2007 autobiography by English former fashion model and photographer Pattie Boyd, written with journalist and broadcaster Penny Junor.{{cite magazine|author=Rolling Stone staff|url=https://www.rollingstone.com:80/music/news/former-george-harrison-and-eric-clapton-muse-pattie-boyd-spills-the-beans-20070806|title=Former George Harrison, Eric Clapton Muse Pattie Boyd Spills the Beans|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=6 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917202738/http://www.rollingstone.com:80/music/news/former-george-harrison-and-eric-clapton-muse-pattie-boyd-spills-the-beans-20070806 |archive-date=17 September 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=18 April 2018}}{{cite news|first=Steve|last=Meacham|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/03/1183351210250.html|title=Beatle's muse comes clean|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=4 July 2007|access-date=18 April 2018}} It was published by Headline Review in Britain, on 23 August 2007, and by Harmony Books in the United States, where it was titled Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me. Beginning with her childhood in Kenya, the book covers Boyd's modelling career in London during the 1960s, her marriage to and divorce from Beatle George Harrison and later marriage and divorce of Harrison's best friend, Eric Clapton.{{cite web |url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WireStory?id=3726023&page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622100028/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WireStory?id=3726023&page=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 June 2011 |title= Pattie Boyd Recalls Life With Rock Stars|access-date=9 August 2008|first=Jill|last=Lawless|date=13 October 2007|publisher=AP via ABC}} The book's title is in reference to Clapton's 1977 song "Wonderful Tonight", which he wrote about Boyd.{{cite news|first=Janet|last=Maslin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/books/27masl.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin|title=The Muse Who Made the Guitars Gently Weep|newspaper=The New York Times|date=27 August 2007|access-date=4 May 2018}}
Reception
Reviewing Wonderful Today for The Daily Telegraph, Lynn Barber described it as "absolutely gripping" and a memoir that "gives more insight into the weirdness of rock-star life than anything I have ever read".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3667995/Pattie-Boyds-side-of-the-story.html|first=Lynn|last=Barber|title=Pattie Boyd's side of the story|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=20 September 2007|access-date=17 April 2018}} Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a B+ rating and wrote: "Boyd pads her pages with a few too many humdrum memories, but her detailed chronicle of her legendary exes' slides into infidelity and substance abuse will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal."{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/2007/08/31/wonderful-tonight/|first=Simon|last=Vozick-Levinson|title=Wonderful Tonight|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=31 August 2007|access-date=4 May 2018}} In her review for The Austin Chronicle, Margaret Moser described it as "a sweet, sad memoir that rings true", with the best chapters dedicated to Boyd's life in the 1960s through to the end of her marriage with Clapton, after which she "turns the mirror inward, and the book becomes SFF – strictly for fans".{{cite news|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2007-11-30/565834/|first=Margaret|last=Moser|title=Book Review: Rock & Roll Books|newspaper=The Austin Chronicle|date=30 November 2007|access-date=4 May 2018}}
In the United States, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/bestseller/0923besthardnonfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|title=New York Times Best Seller list for 9/23/07|access-date=5 July 2012|work=The New York Times}} In an interview the following year, for the website entertainment.ie, Boyd said she was surprised at the extent of the book's success.{{cite web|first=John|last=Balfe|title=Interview with Pattie Boyd |url=http://entertainment.ie/music/feature/Interview-with-Pattie-Boyd/201/42.htm|publisher=entertainment.ie|date=28 August 2008|access-date=18 April 2018}}
References
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{{George Harrison}}
{{Eric Clapton}}
{{The Beatles literature}}
Category:Music autobiographies
Category:2007 non-fiction books
Category:Books about the Beatles
Category:Headline Publishing Group books
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