{"id":31266,"date":"2025-01-21T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-21-1966-george-harrison-married-model-pattie-boyd\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:02:41","slug":"on-this-day-jan-21-1966-george-harrison-married-model-pattie-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-21-1966-george-harrison-married-model-pattie-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 21, 1966: George Harrison married model Pattie Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-21\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Jan. 21, 1966&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beatle<\/strong> <strong>George Harrison<\/strong> married model <strong>Pattie Boyd<\/strong>, with his bandmate <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> serving as best man.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison and Boyd met on the set of the 1964 movie <em>A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The couple separated in 1974 and divorced in 1977, with Pattie blaming the split on Harrison\u2019s infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>During her marriage to Harrison, his good friend, <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>actively pursued her.\u00a0He even wrote the song \u201cLayla\u201d about his secret love for Pattie. Boyd and Clapton would eventually marry in 1979, although their tumultuous union ended in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison would go on to marry <strong>Olivia Trinidad Arias<\/strong> in 1978 and they were married until his death in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 21, 1966&#8230; Beatle George Harrison married model Pattie Boyd, with his bandmate Paul McCartney serving as best man. Harrison and Boyd met on the set of the 1964 movie A Hard Day\u2019s Night. The couple separated in 1974 and divorced in 1977, with Pattie blaming the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-21-1966-george-harrison-married-model-pattie-boyd\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}