By Megan Riedlinger
8:00am PDT, Apr 6, 2024
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We’re having a look again at among the most iconic rock {couples} via the years, beginning with this duo…
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain have been each rockers in their very own proper upon assembly in 1990. Kurt was the chief of Nirvana and Courtney fronted Gap. Two years later, they married in Hawaii and welcomed daughter Frances Bean in August 1993. Tragically, Kurt died by suicide lower than a yr later in April 1994.
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Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli fell for one another in 1980 and married simply eight months later.
They welcomed a son, musician Wolfgang Van Halen, a decade after that then break up one other decade on, in the end finalizing their divorce in 2007. Each went on to marry different individuals, however Valerie was nonetheless by Eddie’s facet when he died from most cancers at 65 in October 2020.
She’s mentioned that even though their marriage did not work out, the guitar icon remained a soulmate.
“We went via a variety of hell,” she mentioned on the “As we speak” present following Eddie’s loss of life. “We weren’t actually good to one another at a variety of factors in our lives as a result of we met so younger and have been very immature. However I am so glad that we have been capable of come to a good looking place by the tip of his life,” she added. “I want he was nonetheless right here.”
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Tommy Lee and Heather Locklear had a high-profile relationship within the ’80s, marrying a yr after they met in 1985 when the drummer was on the peak of his Mötley Crüe fame and the actress was starring on “Dynasty.”
However the rocker and the sweetness parted methods seven years later amidst rumors of Tommy’s infidelity.
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Pamela Anderson married Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in a white bikini in Cancun, Mexico, in 1995 after only a few days of relationship. They welcomed two sons and break up three years later after Tommy grew to become abusive. He even hung out in jail — however they made their approach again to one another in 1998… just for issues to implode once more. In her 2023 memoir “Love, Pamela,” the sweetness admits that trying again, “My relationship with Tommy could have been the one time I used to be ever actually in love.”
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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham met within the ’60s throughout Stevie’s senior yr of highschool. After taking part in in just a few bands collectively and each attending San Jose State College, they joined Fleetwood Mac in late 1974. Lower than two years later, their relationship was over, however their romance and heartbreak gave us some iconic songs together with “Landslide” and “Goals,” which Stevie wrote about their deteriorating relationship, and “Go Your Personal Method,” which Lindsey wrote about Stevie.
“You simply must throw your self into your track. I imply, I broke up with Lindsey in 1976,” Stevie later instructed The New Yorker of how they made it work as bandmates for many years. “We might solely been in Fleetwood Mac for a yr and a half, and we have been breaking apart after we joined Fleetwood Mac. So we simply put our relationship type of again collectively, as a result of I used to be good sufficient to know that, if we had damaged up the second month of being in Fleetwood Mac, it might have blown the entire thing.” They have been making the band’s acclaimed 1977 album, “Rumours,” within the midst of their private turmoil. “I simply bided my time, and tried to make every part as straightforward as doable, tried to be as candy and good to Lindsey as I could possibly be. He wasn’t glad, both,” Stevie added. “Then one thing occurred that was, you already know, ‘We’re completed.’ And he knew it. It was time. And the band was strong, by that point, so I may stroll away realizing that he was secure. And that the band was secure. And that we may work it out.”‘
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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was 35 when he met mannequin Patti Hansen on her twenty third birthday at Studio 54 in 1979.
9 months later, he noticed her once more at his thirty sixth celebration — Mick Jagger’s then-partner, mannequin Jerry Corridor, had invited her — they usually quickly began relationship.
The couple, who’ve two daughters collectively, married in 1983 on Keith’s fortieth birthday.
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English model-turned-photographer Pattie Boyd was simply 21 when she married The Beatles guitarist George Harrison, who was solely 22, in 1966 (they’re seen right here the day after their marriage ceremony) after assembly him whereas filming “A Onerous Day’s Night time” in 1964. She left him in 1974, unable to simply accept his infidelities, calling his affair with bandmate Ringo Starr’s spouse Maureen “the ultimate straw.” She impressed his music together with the songs “I Want You,” “If I Wanted Somebody,” “One thing” and “For You Blue.” Pattie quickly went on to marry considered one of George’s well-known rock star associates who’d lengthy been in love together with her…
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In 1979, Pattie Boyd wed rocker Eric Clapton. Their marriage was suffering from his drug and alcohol abuse and affairs, main Pattie to stroll out in 1987 and divorce Eric two years later. She famously impressed his songs “Layla,” “Fantastic Tonight” and “Bell Backside Blues.”
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Joan Baez was much more well-known than Bob Dylan after they began relationship within the early ’60s. Then he abruptly ended issues in 1965 after she’d given his profession a serious enhance following years of inviting him to hitch her on stage. Her heartbreak later impressed her hit 1975 track “Diamonds & Rust.”
Whereas selling her 2023 documentary “Joan Baez I Am Noise,” the folks music and activism icon revealed she lastly forgave Bob a long time later, explaining to Folks journal of their romance, “We have been in our early 20s. We have been silly, and you’ll’t blame anyone perpetually. I definitely tried however lastly stopped.”
She instructed Parade how she in the end received there: “A few years in the past, I painted a portrait of him when he was younger, put his music on and easily wept for about 48 hours. The entire resentment, all of the nonsense,” she mentioned.
“[In the film] when he is speaking about that he would not have any explicit girlfriend, we’re so younger. He [still has] his child fats. All of that from the previous, I would really like different individuals to launch him from that too,” she added. “Whenever you’re that age, there are mysterious issues that make you do what you do and say what you say. I used to be caught up in it at an early age too. It took me a very long time to develop out of it.”
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To rejoice Mick Jagger’s eightieth birthday on July 26, 2023, we’re having a look again at among the most iconic rock {couples} via the years…
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has dated — and married — his fair proportion of lovely girls, however his relationship with Marianne Faithfull is the stuff of rock legend. She was a proficient musician herself who co-wrote “Sister Morphine” for the Rolling Stones and influenced the group and their iconic ’60s fashion. The beautiful couple stayed collectively for 4 years, with Marianne ending issues in 1970 because the Rolling Stones have been on the peak of their fame and he or she was coming off success as an actress in a string of movies together with 1969’s “Hamlet.”
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Musician Child Rock and actress Pamela Anderson kicked off a wild romance made in tabloid heaven again in 2001 and received engaged the next yr. Their turbulent relationship ended for the primary time in 2003, nevertheless it wasn’t the final of the well-known duo. They discovered their approach again to one another in 2006 and married that very same yr in July… solely to finish issues 4 months later.
In her 2023 memoir “Love, Pamela,” the bombshell praised Child Rock (actual title: Bob Ritchie) for being “actually nice” to her sons with Tommy Lee but in addition confirmed rumors that they break up after attending a screening of “Borat” — by which Pam appeared — when he received upset after she made a reference to her intercourse tape with Tommy within the movie. “Bob stormed out, calling me a wh*** and worse,” she wrote, saying “he was embarrassed, and his response was not thought via.”
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Weapons N’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose dated supermodel Stephanie Seymour starting in 1991. Their courtship resulted in Stephanie showing in two of the band’s music movies, “Do not Cry” and “November Rain,” and finally led to an engagement, although they by no means made it down the aisle. The couple break up in 1993 and issues took a bitter flip after they sued each other — Axl accused her of assaulting him and stealing jewellery whereas Stephanie claimed he’d bodily abused her.
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One of the vital well-known {couples} in music ever? Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The Beatles member met future spouse Yoko in November 1966 when she was establishing her artwork exhibit on the Indica Gallery in London. The 2 have been reportedly immediately fascinated with each other, although Yoko supposedly had not heard of The Beatles. They started corresponding, regardless of John being married to Cynthia Powell on the time. He referenced Yoko in 1968’s “Julia,” after which whereas his first spouse was away that very same yr, he invited Yoko to go to him. The 2 began a romantic relationship that led to marriage the next yr and the beginning of a son, Sean Lennon, in 1975. The legendary music couple have been collectively till John’s tragic 1980 homicide, regardless of having an unconventional (and reportedly open) relationship.
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Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson and “Nearly Well-known” actress Kate Hudson met and shortly moved in collectively in the summertime of 2000. They married on New 12 months’s Eve later that yr when he was 34 and he or she was 21, welcomed a son in 2004 and break up in 2006.
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Impossibly cool rock couple David Bowie and Iman are up subsequent. The musician and the mannequin have been a match made in heaven, assembly at a cocktail party in 1990. David instructed HELLO! journal his attraction to Iman was “speedy and all-encompassing,” including that when he met her, he thought, “That ought to could be my spouse, in my head, was a completed deal.” Their candy romance kicked off that yr and resulted in marriage in 1992. They welcomed daughter Alexandria in 2000. They have been married for 26 years till his loss of life from most cancers in 2016.
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Deep Purple singer-turned-Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale had a memorable romance with actress-turned-video vixen Tawny Kitaen within the late ’80s. She famously starred in his band’s music movies for “Right here I Go Once more,” “Is This Love” and “Nonetheless of the Night time.” The MTV staples married in 1989 however break up simply two years later.
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It was a match made in heaven — a Victoria’s Secret mannequin and the lead singer of a rock band. Lily Aldridge and Caleb Followill met, fittingly, on the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Competition in 2007 and shortly began seeing one another. She even starred in his band’s music video for the 2008 hit “Use Someone.” After relationship for just a few years, the beautiful couple wed in 2011 and have since welcomed two youngsters, daughter Dixie and son Winston.
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Priscilla Presley was simply 14 when she met a 24-year-old Elvis Presley in Germany the place her father was stationed on the similar time the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll was doing navy service there. They started an harmless but lengthy romance that led Elvis to suggest in 1966. They married in Las Vegas only a few months later and welcomed daughter Lisa Marie Presley — Elvis’s solely little one — in 1968, precisely 9 months after their marriage ceremony day. They break up in 1972.
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Shannon Tweed was a Playboy Playmate — Playmate of the 12 months in 1982 and Hugh Hefner’s associate for 14 months, in truth! — earlier than she fell for the one and solely Gene Simmons of KISS. The singer-bassist met the mannequin on the Playboy mansion, naturally, they usually began relationship in 1983. After 28 years and two youngsters collectively, daughter Sophie and son Nick, the longtime lovers lastly made issues official and married in 2011.
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It was a rock romance written within the stars when No Doubt and Bush each carried out at a vacation live performance for Los Angeles radio station KROQ in 1995. Lead singers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale struck up a romance, which led to marriage in 2002. The musicians, who had three sons collectively, lasted for practically 20 years, splitting in 2015.
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Patti Scialfa was a proficient guitarist, singer and songwriter when she joined the E Road Band in 1984 and shortly headed out on tour with Bruce Springsteen, suspending recording her personal album. The 2 weren’t romantically concerned but — Bruce was nonetheless with first spouse Julianne Phillips and Patti briefly dated Tom Cruise — however by 1988, Bruce had separated from Julianne and he and Patti struck up a romantic relationship. By 1990, they’d welcomed their first little one, son Evan, they usually married in 1991. Daughter Jessica joined the brood in 1991, adopted by son Samuel in 1994. They have been settled in New Jersey ever since, impressing the rock world with their profitable love story.
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Rock music’s most mysterious couple? That is Meg White and Jack White, who initially claimed to be brother-and-sister members of The White Stripes. It was later revealed that the duo had truly married in 1996, however they stored up the charade of being siblings till splitting as a pair in 2000… although they remained bandmates and went on to seek out worldwide success as a duo. Meg later married future-ex-husband Jackson Smith (the son of rockers Patti Smith and Fred “Sonic” Smith) in Jack’s yard!
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The Beatles star Paul McCartney and photographer Linda McCartney had an extended relationship that kicked off within the ’60s. They married in 1969 and welcomed three kids collectively (he adopted her daughter from her first marriage). The couple moved to a farm and have become animal activists following the disbanding of the Beatles in 1970 and shortly shaped the band Wings. Linda tragically handed away in 1998 after a three-year battle with breast most cancers.
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Debbie Harry’s relationship with Blondie co-founder Chris Stein was ignited after they grew to become bandmates. They met in 1974 when Chris joined her then-band, The Stilettos. They went on to co-found Blondie in 1974 and shortly made it massive with hits like “Rapture,” “Coronary heart of Glass” and “Name Me.” Their romance endured till 1989, after which they remained bandmates.
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Rocker Pete Doherty was the frontman of The Libertines when he met a really well-known mannequin by the title of Kate Moss at her celebration in 2005. They kicked off an intense off-and-on relationship for the following few years that included marriage plans earlier than they lastly break up for good in 2007.
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Dying Cab for Cutie rocker Ben Gibbard discovered love with one other well-known face — Zooey Deschanel, who sings within the duo She and Him on prime of performing — within the ’00s. Zooey and Ben made it to the altar in 2009… although they ended up splitting simply two years later in 2011.
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Pat Benatar is a legendary rocker who rose to fame within the late ’70s. And by her facet the entire time? Guitarist Neil Giraldo, who was taking part in for Rick Derringer earlier than becoming a member of Pat on tour in 1979. The proficient duo began relationship and married in 1982, finally welcoming daughters Haley and Hana. Their love sparked some critical music magic — Neil additionally produced a few of Pat’s greatest hits together with “Love is a Battlefield” and “We Belong” and carried out on each considered one of her albums.
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Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz — who beforehand dated Molly Ringwald and was married to actress Ione Skye within the early ’90s — discovered love in 1996 with fellow musician Kathleen Hanna of the punk band Bikini Kill. Kathleen went on to entrance Le Tigre within the late ’90s and early ’00s, after which The Julie Damage after 2010. Her songs “Capri Pants” with Bikini Kill and “Simply My Form” from The Julie Damage are about Adam, aka Advert-Rock. They married in Hawaii in 2006 and are nonetheless collectively.
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Musicians Régine Chassagne and Win Butler married in 2003 — the yr earlier than their band, Arcade Hearth, discovered fame with their debut album, “Funeral.” In 2022, Régine stood by him after he was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls — which he denied, insisting each encounter exterior his marriage was consensual.