# Bands Who Broke Up Over A Woman? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141 "2020-01-08T20:41:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/1 "2020-01-08T20:41:46Z")
I’m watching a documentary on Mick Jagger, and some “expert” talks about Anita Pallengberg, and then throws out how many bands have broken up because members of a band were fighting over her, but I can’t think of any. Can you? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/2 "2020-01-08T20:45:26Z")
Spinal Tap. The trope has remarkably few examples in real life. ETA - Oh! You mean a love triangle. nm. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/3 "2020-01-08T20:50:38Z")
Rumor has it Yoko Ono was a factor in the Beatles break up. She was only with Lennon. Mamas and Papas had conflicts over Michelle Philips which helped them break up. Before the breakup she was fired from the group for a short time but later rejoined. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/4 "2020-01-08T20:52:48Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Spinal Tap. The trope has remarkably few examples in real life. Flight of the Conchords. The Rutles also suffered when Ron Nasty began a relationship with Chastity. Yep, as you say, it all seems to happen in fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/5 "2020-01-08T20:58:39Z")
I can think of several examples of conflicts among band members over a romantic rivalry (like Dennis Wilson poaching almost every woman Mike Love ever slept with - and even one he sired), but like the Stones, most A-list bands put business ahead of personal animosity. It’s usually creative differences that break up a band. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/6 "2020-01-08T20:59:41Z")
…or money. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/7 "2020-01-08T21:18:33Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > like Dennis Wilson poaching almost every woman Mike Love ever slept with - **and even one he sired**. Uh, what? ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/8 "2020-01-08T21:31:50Z")
A couple of near misses: **Roxy Music** : I’ve heard Eno talk in interview about how pissed off Ferry would get because he “got more girls than Ferry”. I can’t remember if he was inferring that was one of the reasons behind him being invited to leave the band. and a better near miss: **Dr Feelgood** : If I remember correctly, the tensions that led to Wilko leaving stem from the song Paradise, which Wilko wrote and the band refused to record. What was so unacceptable seems to be that the song (which was intensely personal anyway) was about Wilko cheating on his wife: > [@](#): > > People talking but they don’t know > Where I’ve been to or where I’ll go > World keep turning all things change > I love two girls I ain’t ashamed… I ain’t ashamed [Lyric](https://genius.com/Dr-feelgood-paradise-lyrics) [Contemporaneous recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsp8lHahm0k) - @ ~2.45 In fact, I’ve just found this account - [my memory is pretty accurate](https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-dr-feelgoods-paradise). So Wilko left following a fight with the band concerning a song about **two** women. I would argue that Wilko leaving the Feelgoods = breakup, because they were a shadow of their former selves without him. In any case, that’s as close as I can get. j ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/9 "2020-01-08T21:51:18Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Rumor has it Yoko Ono was a factor in the Beatles break up. … This has been debunked many, many times, especially by Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/10 "2020-01-08T22:18:30Z")
[David Crosby and Graham Nash reportedly fought over Joni Mitchell. Then Nash and Stephen Stills reportedly fought over Rita Coolidge.](https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=4440) But Crosby, Stills and Nash fought with each other over pretty much everything, so it’s difficult to judge how much - if anything - fighting over women contributed to any of their several breakups. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/11 "2020-01-08T22:26:25Z")
Apparently in the middle of a Dirty Rotten Imbeciles gig, the drummer attacked one of his bandmates, and it later came out they were seeing the same gal. They (the band) broke up soon after that. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/12 "2020-01-08T22:26:59Z")
It wasn’t a love triangle situation but romantic issues were a factor in Fleetwood Mac breaking up. The two couples in the band, John McVie and Christine Perfect and Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, all broke up in 1977. In the short term, this worked out great for the band. The turmoil inspired their biggest success, the album _Rumours_. And that success kept the band together for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/13 "2020-01-09T00:41:04Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Uh, what? Dennis Wilson supposedly shacked up with a 16 year old girl whose mother claimed was fathered by Mike Love (a defendant in numerous paternity suits). What makes it really yucky is that that would make her Dennis’ second cousin. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/14 "2020-01-09T01:11:29Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Dennis Wilson supposedly shacked up with a 16 year old girl whose mother claimed was fathered by Mike Love (a defendant in numerous paternity suits). What makes it really yucky is that that would make her Dennis’ second cousin. First cousin once removed. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/15 "2020-01-09T02:02:17Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Dennis Wilson supposedly shacked up with a 16 year old girl whose mother claimed was fathered by Mike Love (a defendant in numerous paternity suits). What makes it really yucky is that that would make her Dennis’ second cousin. That still pales in comparison to whom Papa John Phillips supposedly shagged. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/16 "2020-01-09T02:17:22Z")
**The Ramones**. Took a while, but I think it was a major factor. ---
**Author:** ![MeepersC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meepersc/32/12088_2.png) [@MeepersC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeepersC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/17 "2020-01-09T02:31:18Z")
N/m ---
**Author:** ![MeepersC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meepersc/32/12088_2.png) [@MeepersC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeepersC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/18 "2020-01-09T02:32:24Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Dennis Wilson supposedly shacked up with a 16 year old girl whose mother claimed was fathered by Mike Love (a defendant in numerous paternity suits). What makes it really yucky is that that would make her Dennis’ second cousin. Not only shacked up with - Dennis also fathered a son (Gage) and married Shawn Love, Mike’s alleged daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/19 "2020-01-09T03:33:35Z")
I knew he was a nut, but didn’t know he was skeezy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141/20 "2020-01-09T03:37:06Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Dennis Wilson supposedly shacked up with a 16 year old girl whose mother claimed was fathered by Mike Love (a defendant in numerous paternity suits). What makes it really yucky is that that would make her Dennis’ second cousin. I’m kind of sorry I asked :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-who-broke-up-over-a-woman/846141.md?page=2)