The Women of Rock
I just finished reading Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd. Actually, I only ended up skimming the book. It was a charming tome, but not terribly interesting and certainly not worthy of 336 pages. The whole thing could have been summed up into a novella-length booklet and still conveyed the same basic information.
I found some of Boyd’s tidbits about life in the 60s interesting, though. The general attitude toward sex, diet pills, modeling, and celebrity was so different from today. Now we have the internet and a world where nothing falls into the realm of private information anymore. The mystique is gone when it comes to the high life and the limelight.
One thing I can say about Boyd’s book is that it is 100 times better than The Vixen Diaries by Karrine Steffans. I did not even skim that one as much as flip through it. Steffans’ book is simply a series of name dropping and surface level recollections. You almost feel sorry for her that she believed who eve it was who told her she had enough material for a second book.
And yes, I know that technically Steffans does not aptly fall into the catagory “The Women of Rock”.
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