News A best song George Harrison written about Pattie Boyd
Let’s be honest; everyone dreams of having a song written about them. Love letters come and go, gifts will be lost to time when things go sour, and jewellery will tarnish, but music is forever. More so than any other art form, there is immortality in song, and in that way, Pattie Boyd will live forever.
Anyone can be a muse. Girlfriends, boyfriends, friends and lovers everywhere are captured daily, but not everyone can be a muse to multiple musical legends. And as her influence, beauty, and inspiration struck them, Boyd sat above them as a goddess-like figure. In the 1960s and beyond, the model and photographer had a hoard of musicians worshipping at her alter, penning odes and hymns to her love.
‘So Sad’ – George Harrison
“So sad, so bad, so sad, so bad,” Harrison made no secret of his feelings as his marriage with Boyd began to disintegrate. While the blame for the split is all too often placed on Boyd’s flame for Clapton, the Beatle strayed first and strayed plenty. The reason for their separation in 1974 was down to his own infidelity, most notably with Ringo Starr’s wife, which Boyd saw as the final stray.
Released that same year, ‘So Sad’ is Harrison’s heartbreak talking as he reckons with his loneliness at the end. Their divorce wouldn’t be finalised by 1977, and in 1979, Boyd married Clapton.
