George Harrison popular musicians had no role other than to stand on stage and sing their hit songs." Harrison married model Pattie Boyd on 21 January 1966, with McCartney serving as best man. Harrison and Boyd had met in 1964 during the production of the film "A Hard Day's Night", in which the 19-year-old Boyd had been cast as a schoolgirl. They separated in 1974 and their divorce was finalised in 1977. Boyd said her decision to end the marriage was due largely to George's repeated infidelities. The last infidelity culminated in an affair with Ringo's wife Maureen, which Boyd called "the
Cloud 9 (George Harrison song) lyrics that are "nonthreatening" and "meaningless". While admiring the guitar work, however, he remarks that Harrison's "personality" is still evident, despite the generic 1980s production, and acknowledges that, after his five-year absence, "'Cloud 9' gave notice that George Harrison was back as a force to be reckoned with." Harrison biographer Graeme Thomson was also unimpressed, stating that it sounded like Harrison's personality had been "surgically removed", calling the song "a generic piece of throbbing minor-key blues-rock which would have sounded equally at home on an album by Eric Clapton … or Gary Moore". "Cloud 9" was included on Harrison's 1989