{"id":602,"date":"2024-08-17T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-pattie-boyd-as-muse\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:45:54","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-pattie-boyd-as-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-pattie-boyd-as-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Pattie Boyd as Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A musician needs a muse.&#0160; George Harrison and Eric Clapton found her in Pattie Boyd.&#0160; Here are five of the best known songs that she is said to have inspired.&#0160; If you don&#39;t love at least four of these five, you need a major soul adjustment. Frank Sinatra famously said of George Harrison&#39;s &quot;Something&quot; that it &quot;was the best love song ever written.&quot; He ought to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=udBP7poismk\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MZ3Vh8jZFdE\">Something<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z5lmar2dIqw\">Isn&#39;t it a Pity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qwprrAEL9-E\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UprwkbzUX6g\">Wonderful Tonight<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3n92zksrhbc&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_self\">Layla<\/a>&#0160; (The best part starts at 3:13 the poignancy of which still rends my soul the way it did 54 years ago)<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKAYGVIkbok\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKAYGVIkbok\" target=\"_self\">Bell Bottom Blues<\/a>&#0160; (&quot;If I could choose a place to die, it would be in your arms . . . .&quot;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pattie boyd\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c014e8c1f22b6970d-800wi\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A musician needs a muse.&#0160; George Harrison and Eric Clapton found her in Pattie Boyd.&#0160; Here are five of the best known songs that she is said to have inspired.&#0160; If you don&#39;t love at least four of these five, you need a major soul adjustment. Frank Sinatra famously said of George Harrison&#39;s &quot;Something&quot; that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-pattie-boyd-as-muse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Pattie Boyd as Muse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}