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welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10
craziest music love triangles you all
had the same size
we used to kind of nick each other's
clothes a lot
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no matter what it takes we're going to
keep fleetwood back together
and our breaking up is not going to
break up this band for this list we'll
be ranking noteworthy romantic
relationships in the music industry that
involved
three or more people we'll be using the
term love triangle loosely
to include a variety of messy intra and
interband relationships
what's your favorite bit of music drama
sound off in the comments
number 10 david crosby joni mitchell and
graham nash
i apologize for all of us musicians we
do hog
the girls full disclosure we're going to
be discussing a lot of classic rock
relationships for this list
with many of our entries here being
firmly ensconced within that period of
free love and sexual freedom
case in point the relatively easygoing
affairs folk icon joni mitchell had
with cnsy members david crosby and
graham nash
mitchell met crosby not long after the
latter left the formative psychedelic
rockers the birds
and the pair were an item briefly prior
to the formation of crosby stills and
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nash
mitchell would date crosby's bandmate
graham nash for a significantly longer
period of time
with both pending songs about each other
and the time they spent living under the
same roof
not a lot of jealousy between the guys
it seems if you're going to be in a
relationship with somebody
you cannot lie to them you blew the
trust
number nine kurt cobain courtney love
and billy corgan
who said the 90s were all about feeling
alienated and disaffected
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the love that bloomed in the grunge
scene between whole songwriter courtney
love
and nirvana's kurt cobain has been well
documented
but perhaps less known is love's
boyfriend prior to hooking up with the
future musical icon
love had actually been dating smashing
pumpkins frontman billy corgan for a
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time
some sources even say courtney met kurt
for the first time after a pumpkin show
but the details of their first meeting
are fuzzy
corgan reportedly didn't take to being
dumped very well however
and even allegedly turned down some
high-profile touring opportunities in
order to lick his emotional wounds
and avoid the new happy couple number
eight
grace slick and jefferson airplane some
bands fight
others make love jefferson airplane did
both
their co-lead singers marty balon and
grace slick
never quite got along with the former
once declaring
quote whoever slept with grace had the
power in the band
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grace for her part embraced the open
sexual politics of the 1960s with a
vengeance
and had relationships with the band's
drummer spencer dryden
and bassist jack cassidy
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eventually slick would have a child with
airplane guitarist
paul kantner chyna and go on to work
with various ex-band members with
offshoot projects like starship and
jefferson starship
all the while remaining a counterculture
icon and fashion plate
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number seven joey ramon linda danielle
and johnny ramone
we're going to keep the aggro going for
our next entry this time turning to a
punk rock meeting of the hearts and
fists
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a fight was what allegedly broke out
between ramon's members joey and johnny
after the former's girlfriend linda
danielle left him for johnny
there was definite bad blood between the
ramones members although johnny and
danielle did go on to get married and
stay that way
until his death in 2004. joey for his
part reportedly lost the fight but
won the war as the spat ended up fueling
his lyrics to one of the ramone's best
songs
the kkk took my baby away
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number six todd rundgren bb buell and
steven tyler
classic rockers and playboy playmates
are two great things that go great
together
or perhaps not so great if you're
worried about paternity issues
i've been involved in music from a very
early age it's an addiction
some people like drugs i'm a vinyl
junkie bb buell spent much of her
romantic life in the company of
musicians
most notably with prague and psych
pioneer todd rundgren
but can we still be
friends however buell was also involved
with other famous musicians such as
david bowie jimmy page and stephen tyler
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it was during a brief fling with tyler
when her daughter liv was born
but early on buell and rundgren actually
raised the girl as their own
due to tyler's continuing battles with
substance abuse
it wasn't until years later when the
truth finally surfaced and
liv rendgren became the liv tyler we
know and love today
number five brian jones anita pallenberg
and keith richards the rolling stones
are no strangers to love triangles
such as the one between mick jagger
marianne faithful and keith richards but
we're going to be discussing a different
one for our next entry
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don't worry good old keith is still
involved only this time it's with
stone's founder brian jones
and actress model anita pallenberg brian
and anita were a hot ticket for a time
but jones's escalating drug dependency
and increasingly erratic behavior
pushed pallenberg into the arms of
richards the pair had three children
together and remained friends
but ultimately parted ways as a romantic
couple
we you all had the same size we used to
kind of nick each other's clothes a lot
number four the mamas and the papas
the mamas and the papas were a vocal
group of beautiful and talented people
with a lot of drama
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there's the split of married couple john
and michelle phillips and the latter's
subsequent affair with bandmate denny
doherty
there's mama cass's unrequited love for
doherty and then there's also the new
mamas and the papas
a line up a variant of the group that
john phillips put together with his
daughter mackenzie
reports of impropriety have dogged the
singer for years
it's the sort of convoluted mess that
could have only been birthed in the late
60s and 70s
number three tommy lee pamela anderson
and kid rock
can't we all just get along if you're
asking this question to kid rock and
tommy lee
then the answer is definitely no
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rock and anderson had the same sort of
hot and heavy marriage
the former baywatch actress had with
tommy lee although the coupling did
result in two children
lee and anderson reportedly kept seeing
each other on and off after splitting up
and this did not go over well when she
and rock divorced in 2006.
singer and motley crew drummer came to
blows at the vmas a year later
in a display that felt more like a
schoolyard spat than anything resembling
rock and roll debauchery
number two lindsey buckingham stevie
nicks and
mick fleetwood no matter what it takes
we're gonna keep fleetwood back together
and our breaking up is not gonna break
up this band it's one of the most high
profile splits in
classic rock history a true tale of
romantic entanglement and drama bleeding
out onto the stage
lindsay buckingham and stevie nicks were
a romantically linked folk rock duo
prior to joining the ranks of british
blues legends fleetwood mac in 1975.
the band already featured another
married couple in the form of john and
christine mcphee but it wasn't long
before both
that couple and buckingham knicks went
their separate ways
then during the tour cycle for the
band's classic album rumors
nyx began an affair with the married
mick fleetwood adding more fuel
to the fire of mac's stranger than
fiction story of love
loss and music because really the band
meant everything and the band was way
more important
than each separate person's problems
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
josh haami brody dahl and tim armstrong
punk rock couples splits doll heads for
the stone age
the poison between richie cotson and
ricky rocket
note to self when joining a new band
don't sleep with your drummer's
girlfriend
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number one george harrison patty boyd
and eric clapton
it's one of the most famous classic rock
songs of all time
a lovelorn ode to the wife of a good
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friend
layla was written by guitar legend eric
clapton while he was playing with derek
and the dominoes
a plea to paddy boyd then wife of
another musical icon
george harrison
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truth be told the beatles guitarist and
his wife were going through a rough
patch and the song was a perfect way for
clapton to bridge the gap between
fantasy and reality he really wanted me
to come away with him
although i was most insistent that i was
still married to george
so it was really difficult layla did its
job and clapton would also be inspired
by boyd for the track wonderful tonight
although the couple would eventually
divorce by the late 80s
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