Bands With Relatives in the Lineup

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Wings - had Paul and Linda McCartney.

John McVie and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac were married for awhile.

If you count Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen and backup singer Patti Scialfa have been married for approximately 20 years.

Rick Nelson’s twin sons, Matthew and Gunnar perform together as the band Nelson. Their debut album reached #1 in 1990 and they continue to perform and record on their own label.

Ringo Starr’s son, Zak Starkey, played drums in Ringo’s All Starr Band.

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Correct. Both couples eventually divorced, however. And may Lester Bangs’ ghost have mercy on me for knowing even that much about Abba.

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I had to look it up. For some reason I thought they were cousins or something.

I doubt this counts, but a while back I saw Arlo Guthrie and he had his son playing in the band somewhere. Keyboard maybe.

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Mates of State (married couple)
The Watson Twins (identical twin sisters)
If we count jazz acts, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (brothers), Wynton and Branford Marsalis (also brothers), and Ornette and Denardo Coleman (father and son) often recorded with each other.

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Ooh, I didn’t realize that. I’ll have to add them to my List of Wilsons.

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Jellyfish had brothers Roger and Chris Manning for a while in the early days.

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Dire Straits (Knopfler brothers) for the first couple of albums.

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Pete Townshend’s brother, Simon, is a touring member of the Who.

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The Psychedelic Furs, one of the more underrated bands of the 80s, featured brothers Richard and Tim Butler.

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Who can forget The Shaggs?

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For a few years, brothers Conrad “Cronos” Lant and Anthony “Antton” Lant were in Venom.

got nothin’

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40 years later, the Allman Brother Band includes one of the drummers’ nephew on guitar.

I’m surprised to be the one who gets to mention two wives who famously crashed their respective husbands’ bands, for better or [del]worse[/del] worst: Linda McCartney and Yoko Ono.

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Also:

Spirit (included a stepfather and stepson)

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First Bjorn & Agnetha were married, but they split up. Then Anni-Frid and Benny got married, but they divorced a year later.

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Robert Randolph and the Family Band. (Obviously… ;))

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The Replacements featured Tommy Stinson on bass and, at least originally, his half-brother Bob playing lead guitar.

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The original lineup of Caravan featured cousins Richard and Dave Sinclair, plus Pye Hastings’s brother Jimmy as a regular guest player.

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In bluegrass, there are** the Cherryholmes**. Interesting origin, too.

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The band Eisley is an all-family outfit. The members are all siblings plus one cousin – they are Stacy, Sherri, Chauntelle, Garron, and Weston Dupree. And all except one (Garron, the bassist, is single) are married to people in the music industry and have babies. I fully expect to see Eisley 2.0, featuring their kids, in about 15 years.

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Shouldn’t The Everly Brothers (Don & Phil) and The Isley Brothers (Kelly, Rudy, Ernie, & Ronnie) have been mentioned before. The Isley Brothers have had the longest career in rock history, and I have met Rudy several times. We once had a lovely talk about their touring with the Beatles in 1962, and introducing Twist & Shout to John Lennon.