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- Title
- 'Savoy Truffle': Love, Lust and Longing in a Box of Chocolates
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- Auckland University of Technology
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This article re-reads The Beatles’ song, ‘Savoy Truffle’, not as an ode to Eric Clapton’s rotting teeth and chocolate consumption, but rather as a thinly veiled rock music metaphor reflecting the triptych love relationship between its composer, George Harrison, his wife, Pattie Boyd, and her lover and later husband, Eric Clapton. Re-reading ‘Savoy Truffle’ provides a valuable insight into the intricacies of how popular rock music communicates constructs of love within metaphor and how The Bea...
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- Research paper
- Research format
- Journal article
- Date created
- 2018
- Creator
- Neill, L / Hemmington, N
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- https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/12711
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- Eric Clapton; George Harrison; Pattie Boyd; The Beatles; Triptych Love; ‘Savoy Truffle’
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