scouser
7/3/2011 9:02:00 AM
On Jul 2, 8:57 am, "who?" <yourimageunre...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 3:23 am, scouser <denise.theophi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > On Jul 2, 4:23 am, "who?" <yourimageunre...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > > On Jul 1, 10:59 am, copperhead <copperhead...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Jun 26, 6:04 pm, Anne Onime <anonym...@rip.ax.lt> wrote:
> > > > She only mentioned Claps songs for her and not
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> > > > > Hari's Something.
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> > > > > Pathetic.
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> > > > Uh, "Something" wasn't written for, or about Patti.
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> > > Who was it written for? Patti claims it was.
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> > George told Shyamsundara (his lifelong friend from 1969 -2001) who was
> > a Hare Krishna devotee that he wrote it for Krishna but he put "she"
> > in the words so people wouldn't think he was a poof (which he amply
> > displayed he was not!).
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> > In another interview whilst Eric Clapton and George were rehearsing
> > before their Japan tour he said he did not write it for Pattie - the
> > one he wrote for her was "Isn't It a Pity".
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> > Pattie said he told her it was for her and he probably did - you know
> > what men are like, always giving a bunch of flowers when they've been
> > naughty. As for his affairs i think Pattie knew exactly what she was
> > getting into (as George sang in "Dark Horse" "I told you when we was
> > both at the starting gate") but women generally think/hope they can
> > change a man anyway. However, i don't think it was his liaisons that
> > bothered her as much as the headlong dive into religion - women she
> > could compete with but God was not so easy.
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> > Pattie's book was extremely derogatory at several junctures and it did
> > seem in it that she found it difficult to give George the praise that
> > she readily heaped on Eric - perhaps because they grew up together and
> > he far outsripped her development.
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> > i would not take it as gospel as she got an important fact such as the
> > date of George's passing wrong.
> > Poor editting no doubt. And i do wonder if she would ever have had the
> > courage to write it whilst George was alive.
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> > The British Beatles Fan Club ask me to write the critique on it for
> > them at the time and i was a little less harsh than i could have been
> > as someone who i knew was a big fan of Pattie's and i didn't want to
> > distress them. Still, there were some beautiful descriptions of Friar
> > Park and little anecdotes which were lovely to read so i am glad she
> > did write it anyway. Also, one thing that came through loud and clear
> > was how extremely generous George was - she had left George and gone
> > off with Eric in the July 1974 and went to do her Christmas shopping
> > in December 1974 to find at the end that her account had been closed
> > (duhh as it was obviously paid for by George) so she rang George in
> > distress and he gave her £5000 for her shopping! Notice she could not
> > ask Eric!
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> > "Ronnie" is a super book (for those who have not read it Ronnie Wood
> > was one of Pattie Boyd's boyfriends) as it puts the reader slap bang
> > in the middle of what was going on and actually tells what it must
> > have been like for the Beatles at certain points of their career with
> > some little nice anecdotes about George and John.
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> Thanks for posting all this info, Denise. I really appreciate it.- Hide quoted text -
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You're welcome mate.