# Ugliest Pop Music Marriage Battles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962 "2018-10-15T04:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/21 "2018-10-15T23:55:46Z")
Didn’t Phil Collins divorce his wife via fax? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/22 "2018-10-16T01:51:50Z")
Rita Coolidge had already had to deal with a jealous boyfriend when she was on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour with Joe Cocker, Leon Russell and the rest. When she came back to the U.S., she met Stephen Stills, who introduced her to Graham Nash, who she began dating. Stills became extremely jealous, and the rift between him and Nash was at least partly the reason for the 1970 breakup of Crosby, Stills and Nash. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/23 "2018-10-16T02:22:16Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > It wasn’t exactly a marriage battle, but Sid and Nancy has to be the most spectacular flame-out. So weird and ghastly that it almost feels like a modern fairy tale. > > j Both were heroin addicts and probably wouldn’t have lived much longer anyway; Nancy had serious mental health issues from birth and Sid grew up in a train wreck of a “family.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/24 "2018-10-16T04:35:52Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > You forgot the Wilson sisters had relationships with original band members the Fisher brothers which resulted in Roger being fired Mike quitting. > Steve Fossen and Mike DesRosiers eventually quit due to tension in the band and their decline in commercial success. Yes, you’re right, I whiffed on that. :smack: > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Didn’t know Ann got married. That’s surprising to me, because I’ve always thought she was a lesbian. I do know that “Magic Man” was a tribute to her then-boyfriend. The _Rolling Stone_ article I lined to earlier notes that Ann had gone on a date with her now-husband, Dean Wetter, in the 1980s (apparently, Nancy set them up on a blind date). As Ann tells it, at the end of the date, she “really put the make on him,” he rebuffed her, and that was the end of the relationship, until they met again, 30 years later. I don’t know if she was in any significant relationships (with men or women) in between dating Michael Fisher (then Heart’s manager) in the 1970s, and marrying Wetter. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/25 "2018-10-16T13:12:25Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Cass Elliott never publicly identified the father of the baby she had when the band was at the top of their game, but I’ve seen pictures of her daughter, and she is the spitting image of Denny. According to wiki, apparently she did. > [@wikipedia](#): > > (Cass) Elliot gave birth to daughter Owen Vanessa Elliot on April 26, 1967. She never publicly identified the father, but many years later, Michelle Phillips helped Owen locate her biological father. When Chuck Day died in 2008, it was revealed that he was Owen’s father. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/26 "2018-10-16T15:52:18Z")
Ross Childress, original lead guitarist for Collective Soul allegedly slept with lead singer/songwriter Ed Roland’s wife and mother of his son which led to a divorce and Ross being kicked out of the band. Ed is very,VERY sensitive about the issue, especially when asked about Ross, blaming him for destroying his family. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/27 "2018-10-16T18:42:45Z")
Idiot Wind/Diamonds and Rust ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962/28 "2018-10-16T22:53:20Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Yes, you’re right, I whiffed on that. :smack: > > The _Rolling Stone_ article I lined to earlier notes that Ann had gone on a date with her now-husband, Dean Wetter, in the 1980s (apparently, Nancy set them up on a blind date). As Ann tells it, at the end of the date, she “really put the make on him,” he rebuffed her, and that was the end of the relationship, until they met again, 30 years later. > > I don’t know if she was in any significant relationships (with men or women) in between dating Michael Fisher (then Heart’s manager) in the 1970s, and marrying Wetter. I didn’t read the story. I also remember their “Behind The Music” episode saying that Ann had not had a LTR since breaking up with Fisher. She adopted two children, who were quite young when the episode aired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugliest-pop-music-marriage-battles/822962.md?page=1)