I knew a guy who knew a guy who worked on Capitol Hill, who said that Al Gore was the only politician in DC who was faithful to his wife.
Besides Alice Stuart, there was also Nigey Lennon, who claims to have had an affair with Frank, to the point of rooming with him on the 200 Motels tour. She even wrote a book about it.
Not to mention Moon’s description of her dad as ‘a monk… a monk with a taste for Groupies.’
Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame has been married to the same woman since 1981. I’ve never heard anything bad about his personal life.
Really, I’d rather not.
It’s an interesting question (which, of course, can never be definitively answered) but I’d beware of making a broader generalization re: monogamy and men based on the lives of rock stars. Rock stars, by definition, are people who thrive on attention, and therefore might be assumed to have a higher rate of infidelity than mere mortals who have no desire to be screamed at by crowds or admired by beautiful people.
In other words, saying, “Every man would have sex with many women if he could get them, look at rock stars,” assumes that every man would be a rock star and live that sort of lifestyle if he could. Rock stars want to live like rock stars; many men would hate it and feel much happier with one woman, one car and one office to go to work to everyday.
(Yes, I still identify as poly by *my *nature, although I’m in and intend to stay in a monogamous relationship. I don’t believe there’s only one “natural” state for sexuality, though, and see no reason there should be. I don’t like “nature” arguments for polyamory any more than I do for homosexuality.)
I thought we were talking about rock stars?
George Harrison was supposedly faithful to Patti until he decided to sleep with Ringo’s wife Maureen. When asked why, he said “Incest.”
He apparently was faithful to second wife Olivia until his death.
Wait a minute. You’re trying to prove your theory that human males are not naturally monogamous by asking whether men in the most unnatural circumstances have ever remained monogamous? :dubious:
If that’s your method of proving your point, then I’d like to open up a poll of my own so that I can refute your conclusions. It’ll target morbidly obese unemployed ex-cons who still live in their parent’s basements.
Sound fair?
Note: 99% of males are not (Presidents of powerful nations, rock stars, pro athletes, famous actors, etc), and are therefore not candidates for “easy sex.”
If you really want data to back your notion that “human males are not naturally monogamous,” I think you’d have far more credibility if you didn’t focus on the 1% who are statistical anomolies.
Yet Al and Tipper still broke up, which proves – well, I guess it doesn’t really prove anything.
McCartney spent 10 days in a Japanese jail in 1980 after being caught with marijuana in his luggage. So, I’d imagine that those would count as “nights apart”, even if his only chance at groupies in that case would have been Japanese men. 
You were probably going for a joke here, but Buddy Holly was only married for the last 6 months or so of his life. Maria, his wife, went on tour with him, so he didn’t exactly have much of a chance to show if he’d be monogamous or not in the long run.
That being said, before he married he seemed to have taken up the offers of many a groupie. I’ve even heard that he once had a threesome with a girl and Little Richard (they were on tour together), but that could be an urban legend.
In that case, I got nothin’.
I don’t understand what this means. Hint?
Regards,
Shodan
IIRC, most of the band members of U2 usually had their wives and families with them on tour. Bono said it saved their marriages, and thus the stability of the band.
Obviously, we can’t possibly know who’s been perfectly faithful and who hasn’t. All we can know is who’s stayed married a long time.
We’ve already heard about Charlie Watts, Bono and Jon Bon Jovi.
One other name is Dennis De Young, lead singer of Styx, who’s been married to Suzanne, his high school girlfriend, since 1970. Was he 100% faithful? Who knows- but some years back, I read an interview with Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo, who’s openly gay. He was asked if it was weird to be around so many horny female groupies, and he said that was never really an issue with Styx, because most of the other guys in the band had gotten married young and usually brought their wives on tour with them. Chuck didn’t seem to think anyone in the band except (single) Tommy Shaw was picking up groupies.
I’ve already told this story on other threads, but in the Sixties, Bill Wyman kept a log book showing how many girls each of the Rolling Stones had scored with. By the time he stopped keeping count, Brian Jones was the clear “winner,” with Wyman in second, and Mick/Keith neck and neck for third. But Wyman had a zero next to Watts’ name, because Watts didn’t play around.
Watts wasn’t a saint- he certainly had serious issues with booze and drugs. But his bandmates vouch that he was a faithful husband.
Every now and then, Dee likes to take a poke at Al and Tipper Gore, pointing out that, unike the Gores, the Sniders are still married, and none of their kids has ever been in trouble with the law.
Methinks you are single and with a tenuous knowledge of history.
Just celebrated my 5th anniversary…and have a bachelor’s in history. Very wrong on both counts.
Vince Furnier (aka Alice Cooper) has said that he has never cheated on his wife Sheryl (they married in 1976).
Alice Cooper also seems to be a pretty square guy, married 30+ years, three kids, born again Christian. “In a 2002 television interview, Cooper claimed that he had “never cheated” on his wife in all the time they had been together. In the same interview, he also claimed that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with your partner.”