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GEORGE HARRISON, PATTIE BOYD, ERIC CLAPTON
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Clapton also fell in love with Boyd, ultimately confessing his feelings to the couple. She initially refused his advances, sending him spiraling into a drug-fueled depression. Amid the haze of his growing addiction to heroin and alcohol, he penned the tracks that would become his opus, 1970’sLayla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The album’s title track directly addresses the unrequited love in its lyrics: “I tried to give you consolation / When your old man had let you down / Like a fool, I fell in love with you / Turned my whole world upside down.”
Several years later, Boyd left Harrison for good, and she and Clapton began living together in 1974. “Eric was very attractive and persuasive,“she later said. “George and I had many problems in our relationship that had a great deal to do with the enormity of his fame and his increasing passion for meditation and the spiritual life. He frequently simply wasn’t there for me, and there were other women.” Clapton immortalized her in song yet again, penning the gentle “Wonderful Tonight” for her.
The former Beatle bore no ill-will towards his friend, jokingly referring to him as his “husband-in-law.” Harrison even attended the pair’s 1979 wedding. “I’d rather she be with him than some dope,” he toldRolling Stoneat the time. Sadly, their union didn’t last and they divorced in 1988.
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BRIAN JONES, ANITA PALLENBERG, KEITH RICHARDS
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Anita Pallenberg first crossed paths with the Rolling Stones in 1965, when she snuck into one of the band’s concerts in Munich, Germany. The exquisitely beautiful 21-year-old model was able to talk her way backstage, where she hit it off with Jones, the enigmatic rhythm guitarist and founder of the group. At their first meeting he apparently told her, “I don’t know who you are, but I need you.”
Pallenberg and Jones quickly became an item. Or, as she later recalled, “I decided to kidnap Brian. Brian seemed sexually the most flexible.” By 1967 they were one of the hottest couples in London, but their drug use took a toll on the relationship. Jones was prone to jealous rages that often turned violent. “He was short but very strong and his assaults were terrible,” she later said. “For days afterwards, I’d have lumps and bruises all over me. In his tantrums he would throw things at me, whatever he could pick up—lamps, clocks, chairs, a plate of food—then when the storm inside him died down he’d feel guilty and beg me to forgive him.” At one point he punched her face with such force that it broke his own hand.
It was during this emotional maelstrom that Jones' bandmateKeith Richardsmoved into the South Kensington home he shared with Pallenberg. Richards also found himself drawn to the enigmatic model’s worldly nature. “She knew everything and she could say it in five languages,” he once marveled. “She scared the pants off me!”
Pallenberg and Richards had three children together: son Marlon Leon Sundeep in August 1969, daughter Dandelion Angela in April 1972, and son Tara Jo Jo Gunne in March 1976. Tragically, their youngest child died of SIDS at just 10 weeks old.
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LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, STEVIE NICKS, MICK FLEETWOOD
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In the midst of this personal turmoil—and a blizzard of cocaine—Fleetwood Mac recorded their 1977 blockbuster,Rumours. The thinly disguised references to their romantic tribulations turned the album into something of a musical soap opera, and it became one of the highest selling records of the decade. As the band hit the road to promoteRumours, Fleetwood and Nicks began a furtive affair. “Never in a million years could you have told me that would happen,” Nicks later toldUncutmagazine. “Everybody was angry, because Mick was married to a wonderful girl and had two wonderful children. I was horrified. I loved these people. I loved his family. So it couldn’t possibly work out. And it didn’t. I just couldn’t.” Inevitably, their romance was doomed from the start. Fearing that it “would have been the end of Fleetwood Mac” if they continued, the pair agreed to stop seeing each other. Fleetwood eventually began a relationship with Nicks' best friend, Sara Recor, whom he married in 1988.
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DAVID CROSBY, JONI MITCHELL, GRAHAM NASH
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TODD RUNDGREN, BEBE BUELL, STEVEN TYLER
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When Liv was 8 years old, she met Tyler and noticed a strong physical resemblance between herself and his daughter, Mia. She mentioned this to Buell, who finally revealed the truth about her biological father. After changing her name to Liv Tyler, father and daughter began to forge a relationship. In 1993, she appeared In her father’s music video for “Crazy” along withAlicia Silverstone.
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JOEY RAMONE, LINDA DANIELE, JOHNNY RAMONE
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TOMMY LEE, PAMELA ANDERSON, KID ROCK
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BaywatchstarPamela Andersonmarried Mötley Crüe drummerTommy Leein 1995, reportedly after knowing him for just 96 hours. They had two sons together, Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger, before divorcing in 1998. She eventually entered into an on-off relationship withKid Rock, and the pair announced plans to marry in April 2002. They split before they could make it to the altar, but shocked fans in 2006 when they rekindled their relationship and tied the knot that July. According to rumors, the surprise nuptials were the result of Anderson’s pregnancy. Tragically, she suffered a miscarriage that November while shooting the filmBlonde and Blonder.Seventeen days later she filed for divorce from Rock, citing irreconcilable differences.
Anderson revealed that she and Lee occasionally hooked up after their divorce, but relations between Lee and Rock were significantly less warm. According to Rock, Lee began sending him taunting emails while in the midst of his divorce.
Lee recounted his encounter with Rock at the VMAs on his website. “Here I am minding my own biz [when] I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble,” he wrote. “I stand up and embrace him with a semi hug and say ‘Hey dude … What up’?? He punches me in the face … well if ya wanna call it that!? … more like a bitch slap! … Wuss!! i go to knock this jealous no career havin country bumpkin the f— OUT … and before I can have a meeting with my fist and his ugly ass mug … security guards … NOT MINE at the Palms grab me and haul my ass outta the award show threatening me that if I move they’ll break my arm … yeah whatever!!”
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THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
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The ’60s psych pop foursome behind hits like “Monday, Monday” and “California Dreaming” formed more of a love square rather than a triangle. The trouble began in late 1965, when the quartet’s tenor, Denny Doherty, began sleeping with bandmate (and former model) Michelle Phillips, who was then married to the group’s guitarist and primary songwriter, John Phillips. When John learned of his wife’s affair, he wrote the band’s next single, “I Saw Her Again,” about the episode. Though unclear if the move was intended to be sadistic, he tapped Doherty to sing lead—and even asked him for writing input.
John’s wrath against his wife was less subtle. After he learned that Michelle also had a fling with Gene Clark of the Byrds, he fired her fromthe Mamas and the Papasin June 1966. Jill Gibson, a girlfriend of the band’s producer, Lou Adler, was brought in as a brief replacement, but Michelle’s “Mama” status was reinstated two months later due to fan demand.
source: people.com
