Friends remembering the last time they saw George, a 2021 series. First up: Pattie Boyd.
“I never dreamed it was the last time. I was distraught. He was my first love and the most important influence in my life. I will always miss him.” - Pattie Boyd, Hello!, 31 August 2004
“He had initially gone to see Ringo who lives near me [in England] and then just on the off-chance phoned to see if I was in too. We had a lovely time.” - Pattie Boyd, The Mammoth Book of The Beatles
“About three months before he died he was in my area. He was going to see Ringo, and he popped in. He brought me a few little gifts and some music to listen to, it was really sweet. I knew he wasn’t well, I realized that he knew he wasn’t well. In a way I think he was coming to say goodbye. I could see he was very drawn and he was using energy more than he needed to, to appear up and happy. You could sense he wasn’t well.” - Pattie Boyd, Starts At 60, 19 April 2018
“I think probably the memory that will always remain with me is when he came to see me not long before he passed away. And he came over to my cottage and wanted to see the garden and wanted to see my darkroom because I’d been doing some printing, and he wanted to see the flowers. And he saw some flowers, tiny little flowers that were growing in a crack in the pavement, and the wind was blowing them. He referred to them as ‘shivering flowers,’ and I thought, Oh God, that’s so sweet. He just had a wonderful view, and he used such a different language to describe what he was feeling or thinking. And, you know, he brought me a little gift, a little something for my studio, a little Krishna. And, you know, he was just always generous and kind and sweet and always had a good sense of humor.” - Pattie Boyd (on how she best remembers George), Every Little Thing With Ken Michaels, 3 February 2019 (x)
