Two new rock and roll books - Patty Boyd and Nikki Sixx

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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by Pattie Boyd

So much myth surrounds the 1970s love triangle between George Harrison; his wife, Pattie Boyd; and Eric Clapton. After all, Clapton's pining for Boyd inspired him to write the legendary rock song "Layla." Here, Pattie Boyd breaks her 40-year silence on the subject and opens up about going from being an extra in The Beatles's A Hard Day's Night film to the object of affection of two of rock music's most renowned musicians.

http://beta.bordersstores.com/online...sku=0307393844

The Heroin Diaires: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by Nikki Sixx

Available: September 18

As 1980s hard rock hair bands go, none were much bigger than Mötley Crüe. And at the height of their popularity and fame, bassist Nikki Sixx could not have been deeper in the world of hard drugs and hard living. His era of excess is captured in The Heroin Diaries that he kept at the time, documenting every bizarre day that further propelled him into a drug-hazed spiral downward. Now sober, Sixx reveals it all with honesty and resolve.

http://beta.bordersstores.com/online...sku=0743486285