She was once described as the most serenaded blonde of her generation. Patti Boyd, the first wife of George Harrison, was the inspiration behind his most beautiful love song, "Something".
As if one classic were not enough, the '60s model was also immortalised in words by Eric Clapton, who wrote the anguished "Layla" about his love for her and "Wonderful Tonight".
Boyd was a 19-year-old film extra when she met Harrison on the set of A Hard Day's Night. She and a number of other models played schoolgirls who met the band on a train journey.
Harrison, who would later compare her to Brigitte Bardot, barely spoke to her at the time, but she recalled how she felt him staring at her. When she asked for an autograph, Boyd was rewarded with seven kisses under her name.
She initially turned down his invitation to go out together. But when Harrison persisted, the temptation proved irresistable.
The couple married in 1966 at Epsom registry office, Harrison having secured the permission of the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and for a while they were at the centre of the beautiful people of the 1960s.
They lived in a multi-coloured bungalow in Esher, Surrey, where guests would paint their signatures on the walls. In 1969, in an incident that only enhanced their glamour, they were each fined £250 for possession of cannabis.
It was Boyd, blue eyed and with long blonde hair, who originally turned Harrison to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and thus helped to shape his spiritual quest.
Ironically, it was as their marriage began to fail that the Beatle wrote "Something", once described by Frank Sinatra as the greatest love song of the century.
The tensions between the couple began to show as they struggled to have a child. Boyd, by now a housewife, also wanted to return to modelling against her husband's wishes.
It would later become part of rock and roll legend that Harrison's best friend, Eric Clapton, was the lover who became responsible for the breakdown of the relationship.
"But all those reports that my best friend stole her away from me were rubbish," the Beatle said of news reports that he had done just that.
However, the two musicians were once said to have engaged in an all night duelling guitar session for her hand. Clapton won.
They divorced in 1977 and Boyd married Clapton two years later.
It took much longer, until the 1990s, for Harrison and Clapton to renew their friendship.
Harrison met his second wife, Olivia Trinidad Arias, while he was on tour in America in 1974 and she was working as a secretary in the Los Angeles office of his record company, Dark Horse.
"I fell for her immediately," he said. "I told her that I didn't want her doing all that typing. We started going out with each other and, four years later, we married. She has been a very calming influence on me."
They were married in 1978 and a month before the ceremony their son, Dhani, was born.
As intensely jealous of her privacy as Harrison, Olivia, who was born in Mexico, has shunned the public gaze.
One of her few public appearances was made more than 10 years ago when she joined the wives of the three other Beatles, Linda McCartney, Barbara Bach and Yoko Ono, to launch an appeal for the abandoned children of Romania.
"First and foremost I am a housewife and a mother and as a mother I am devastated to see what is happening in Romania," she said in an interview at the time. "A child is like one of your arms and when I had a baby of my own I wanted to be a mother who was always there."
Of her husband she said: "George is a very wise person. I love him very much. He is a strict father and I am a demanding mother."
It was Harrison's second wife who was credited with saving the Beatle's life during the attack at their home in Oxfordshire in December, 1999, after she hit intruder Michael Abram with a table lamp.
She later said her husband had been "a whisper away from death".
Olivia helped to nurse her husband during his illness and, for much of the last months of his life, slept beside him in a hospital bed.
She was at his side when he died.