Desperate Rock Wives
Pierre Mikaïloff
Fetjaine2012
ISBN 978-2-35425-394-3
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How many were there, those young women of the sixties who fell in love with a brilliant, rich and adored young musician, only to find themselves a few years later locked away in Bluebeard’s palace, in the company of a stoned, jealous, unfaithful or violent rock star?..
The reality behind the glamour was often very bleak for many of these young women in their prime in the 1960s and 1970s, who tied the knot with rock or pop stars. Others became true muses, or even rock stars in their own right.
From Jane Birkin to Nancy Spungen (Sid Vicious’s girlfriend, found stabbed to death), from Françoise Hardy to Pattie Harrison (girlfriend of George, then of Eric Clapton, who wrote the classic ‘Layla’ for her), some managed to hold on to their fairy tale despite the trials and tribulations, whilst others went through a living hell. Take Ronnie, for example, the singer with the Ronettes who became the wife of Phil Spector – a brilliant but completely deranged producer – whom her husband forced into a life of seclusion, even forbidding her from reading magazines. She came out of it relatively unscathed: Spector eventually shot and killed one of his one-night stands...
Others, too, discovered in private the true face of a star who was far from living up to his public image. Take Priscilla Presley, Elvis’s first wife, who married him at the age of 17; he didn’t cause her much harm throughout her life, but ultimately drove her into the arms of another man. From muse to mother, mistress, evil genius or nurse, here is the little-known story of these legendary ‘Desperate Rock Wives’.
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