Band Members Who Have Dated: Fleetwood Mac and Extra

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A Information to Band Members Who Have Dated Every Different Over the Years: Paramore, Fleetwood Mac and Extra

Musicians in love. Fleetwood Mac is probably essentially the most well-known instance of bandmates courting one another — and the following problems that include it.

“I broke up with Lindsey [Buckingham] in 1976. We would solely been in Fleetwood Mac for a 12 months and a half, and we had been breaking apart once we joined Fleetwood Mac,” Stevie Nicks recalled in a February 2022 dialog with The New Yorker. “So, we simply put our relationship sort 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 could have blown the entire thing.”

The Arizona native continued: “I simply bided my time, and tried to make every part as simple as doable, tried to be as candy and good to Lindsey as I may very well be. He wasn’t comfortable, both. Then one thing occurred that was, you already know, ‘We’re completed.’ And he knew it. It was time. And the band was stable, by that point, so I might stroll away understanding that he was secure. And that the band was secure. And that we might work it out.”

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The duo’s breakup offered inspiration for the group’s critically acclaimed 1977 album, Rumours. Nicks and Buckingham penned “Goals” and “Go Your Personal Method” about one another for the LP, respectively.

“Each songs sort of imply the identical factor — it is actually about our breakup,” Nicks mentioned. “He’s taking a look at it from a really disagreeable, indignant method, and I am saying, in my extra airy-fairy method, we’re gonna be all proper. We’ll get by means of this.”

Different bandmates’ relationships have stood the take a look at of time. When Bruce Springsteen invited Patti Scialfa to hitch his E Road Band on tour as a backup singer in 1984, the “Born within the USA” musician was nonetheless married to Julianne Phillips. Springsteen and Phillips separated in 1998 and the Grammy Award winner started dwelling with Scialfa quickly afterward.

In a 1996 interview with The Advocate, the “Thunder Highway” singer opened up about receiving backlash for beginning a brand new relationship earlier than his divorce was finalized.

“It’s an odd society that assumes it has the best to inform individuals whom they need to love and whom they shouldn’t. However the fact is, I principally ignored your complete factor as a lot as I might. I mentioned, ‘Properly, all I do know is that this feels actual, and perhaps I’ve obtained a large number going [on] right here in some trend, however that’s life,’” he advised the outlet on the time.

The New Jersey native married Scialfa in 1991. They share three youngsters: Jessica, Evan and Sam.

Scroll by means of for a information to which musicians have dated their bandmates through the years:

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Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal

The Candy Escape singer started courting her No Doubt bandmate shortly after he joined the group in 1987. Though the duo break up in 1994, they remained associates and bandmates. The breakup impressed Stefani to put in writing a number of of the songs on the 1995 album Tragic Kingdom, together with “Don’t Communicate.”

“We had been on tour for Tragic Kingdom for 28 months. We had been going by means of the breakup, and in each interview we had been speaking about it, so we had been opening this wound on an hourly foundation. It was so brutal, however I do not understand how we made it by means of,” the “Hollaback Woman” musician advised The Guardian in September 2012. 

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Jack White and Meg White

The White Stripes musicians had been married from 1996 to 2000. Following their break up, the rock duo went on to launch 5 studio albums collectively earlier than formally disbanding in 2011.

Early within the band’s tenure, Jack — who took Meg’s final identify after they tied the knot — mentioned that he and his bandmate had been siblings moderately than exes. 

“If we had introduced ourselves in one other trend … how would now we have been perceived, proper off the bat? Whenever you see a band that’s two items, husband and spouse, boyfriend and girlfriend, you assume, ‘Oh, I see.’ … Once they’re brother and sister, you go, ‘Oh, that is fascinating.’ You care extra in regards to the music, not the connection,” the guitarist advised Rolling Stone in September 2005. 

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckinham

Nicks and Buckingham had been already an merchandise after they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975. Their break up served as inspiration for the group’s 1977 album Rumours.

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Christine McVie and John McVie

The opposite Fleetwood Mac couple, Christine and John, had been married from 1968 to 1976. 

“I dare say, if I hadn’t joined Fleetwood Mac, we would nonetheless be collectively,” Christine advised Rolling Stone in 1997. “I simply assume it’s not possible to work within the band together with your partner. Think about the strain of dwelling with somebody 24 hours a day, on the highway, in an already annoying scenario, with the added negativity of an excessive amount of alcohol.”

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Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill

Jean wrote about his love triangle together with his Fugees bandmate Hill and his spouse, Claudinette Jean, in his 2012 memoir, Goal: An Immigrant’s Story. 

“Lauryn and I had been pursuing a dream collectively, and that purpose, in addition to our mutual love of music, was the language that introduced us collectively. And there was an attraction there; I’m not going to lie and act as if it was simply because we hung out collectively that we ended up collectively. Lauryn’s stunning, and due to her appears and her expertise and every part we shared with one another — from songs to books to lyrics — love was sure to develop,” he wrote of Hill.

He added: “I used to be with each of those unbelievable ladies on the similar time, which isn’t one thing to be happy with but it surely was positively unavoidable. I couldn’t say no to both of them and I imply it once I say I beloved them each, as a result of I did.”

Regardless of his fling with the “Killing Me Softly” singer, the Haiti native and Claudinette have been married since 1994. They adopted a daughter in 2005. 

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Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa

The Lengthy Stroll Dwelling creator and Scialfa, who started touring with the E Road Band in 1984, have been married since 1991.

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Win Butler and Regine Chassagne

The Arcade Fireplace musicians met in faculty, changing into bandmates in 2001. They exchanged vows in 2003 and welcomed a son in 2013.

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Hayley Williams and Taylor York 

The Paramore band members confirmed that they’re courting throughout a September 2022 interview with The Guardian. The duo have labored collectively since York joined the group in 2007.