AUT LibraryAUT
View Item 
  •   Open Research
  • AUT Faculties
  • Faculty of Culture and Society
  • School of Hospitality and Tourism
  • View Item
  •   Open Research
  • AUT Faculties
  • Faculty of Culture and Society
  • School of Hospitality and Tourism
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

'Savoy Truffle': Love, Lust and Longing in a Box of Chocolates

Neill, L; Hemmington, N
Thumbnail
View/Open
Journal article (301.4Kb)
Permanent link
http://hdl.handle.net/10292/12711
Metadata
Show full metadata
Abstract
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 Beatles integrated multiple meanings into lyrics conveying love and its contention. Such multiplicity aids explanations exploring the band’s extraordinary popularity by providing a socio-temporal insight into an extra-ordinary time: the 1960s. In re-reading ‘Savoy Truffle’, this article contextualizes the multiplicity of love itself within an exploration of the passion within lust, the longing of desire and the satisfaction of having the desired object. The desired object was Pattie Boyd, who Harrison projected within a box of ‘Good News’ chocolates.
Keywords
Eric Clapton; George Harrison; Pattie Boyd; The Beatles; Triptych Love; ‘Savoy Truffle’
Date
2018
Source
Journal of European Popular Culture, Volume 9, Number 1, 1 April 2018, pp. 5-18(14)
Item Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Ingenta
DOI
10.1386/jepc.9.1.5_1
Publisher's Version
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jepc/2018/00000009/00000001/art00002
Rights Statement
Contributors to all Intellect journals can deposit their post-print file in institutional repositories or on a personal website. We define post-print as the version of the paper after peer review, with revisions having been made, but before copy-editing and typesetting have taken place. This is subject to an embargo period of 12 months. We ask authors to include a DOI or link to the full text version of their article on IngentaConnect if possible.

Contact Us
  • Admin

Hosted by Tuwhera, an initiative of the Auckland University of Technology Library

 

 

Browse

Open ResearchTitlesAuthorsDateSchool of Hospitality and TourismTitlesAuthorsDate

Alternative metrics

 

Statistics

For this itemFor all Open Research

Share

 
Follow @AUT_SC

Contact Us
  • Admin

Hosted by Tuwhera, an initiative of the Auckland University of Technology Library