Random Music Power Couples Who Didn't Break Up (14 items)

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  (#2) Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa

  Bruce Springsteen first met Patti Scialfa at The Stone Pony, the famed Asbury Park, NJ, bar, in 1980. "It was the start of a beautiful friendship," Scialfa has said. In 1984 she auditioned for, and won, the job as backup singer on Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A tour. He warned her he had never had a woman in his band before and wasn't sure if it would work out. 

  Although Scialfa started touring with Springsteen, their relationship did not immediately blossom into romance. Instead, he married actress Julianne Phillips in 1985. But the marriage was rocky, and Phillips soon filed for divorce after seeing tabloid photos of Scialfa with Springsteen. Scialfa and Springsteen had their son Evan in 1990 and married the following year; two more kids followed.

  Scialfa once said, "When you’re married to someone famous, people know you, but they’re not really seeing you.” Others describe her as very down-to-earth and very independent. Very much her own person. Springsteen has said that it isn't hard to work with his wife because they've developed natural boundaries to separate their personal lives from their professional work. He also credited Scialfa with being strong enough and stable enough to help him through his bouts with depression. In his biography Born To Run, he admitted that Scialfa would see "a freight train bearing down, loaded with nitroglycerin and running quickly out of track."
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  (#13) Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz

  Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) were teenagers when they first met in the 1990s, but it wasn't exactly love at first sight for the Grammy-winning artist. She told Marie Claire UK in 2013 she found him annoying because everything about him was over the top and ostentatious. But the hip-hop producer grew on her; they are rumored to have started dating in 2008. One problem: Although Beatz claimed he and his first wife, R&B artist Mashonda, were separated by the time he and Keys started dating, his ex said differently. In a 2009 twitter post she accused Keys of destroying her family (she and Beatz have a son together).

  Still, Keys and Beatz fell in love and got married in July 2010. Their first son, Egypt Daoud, was born in October of that year, and their second son, Genesis, turned born in December of 2014. And the relationship between the couple and his ex has improved greatly; Mashonda even published a book entitled Blend with the help of Keys and Beatz.

  In addition to raising their family and supporting each other's music careers, in August 2019, Keys and Beatz announced plans to transform a 110-acre property in Macedon, NY, into the Dean Collection Music & Art Campus, which would house a performing arts center, recording studio, classrooms, and offices, along with buildings that would house the couple's personal art collection, a gym and training center.
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  (#9) John Lennon & Yoko Ono

  John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met at an art gallery in London, where Ono was preparing an exhibit of her conceptual art, in November 1966. Both were married to other people at the time, but they started a romantic relationship sometime prior to May 1968, when Lennon's wife, Cynthia, discovered Ono sitting in the Lennons' kitchen wearing Cynthia's bathrobe. The Lennons divorced later that year; a few months later, Ono divorced her husband. Lennon and Ono married on March 20, 1969; during their honeymoon, they staged as series of protests against the Vietnam War which they dubbed "Bed-ins for Peace." Some of the press and fans of the Beatles treated Ono badly, calling her racist names. And although the band had started to fall apart before Lennon started bringing Ono to their studio sessions, she received much of the blame when the Beatles broke up in April 1970.

  Lennon and Ono collaborated on multiple musical projects, including: Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968), which became infamous for the couple appearing unclothed on the album cover, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970) and Double Fantasy (1980). The couple moved to New York City, but when they separated in 1973, Lennon moved to Los Angeles with his mistress May Pang; Lennon referred to this 18-month separation as his "lost weekend." He and Ono reconciled in early 1975 and their son Sean was born in October of that year. After his son's birth, Lennon retired from music temporarily to help raise Sean.

  His collaborative project with Ono, the Double Fantasy double album, was meant to mark the start of Lennon's musical comeback. Tragically, he was slain outside of the couple's apartment building on December 8, 1980. He was just 40 years old. In the years since his passing, Ono has worked to keep her husband's legacy alive and has also seen numerous gallery retrospectives of her artwork.
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  (#14) Vince Gill & Amy Grant

  Vince Gill and Amy Grant had not met prior to the country star inviting the Christian music recording artist to perform on his Christmas television special in 1993. Although the attraction was immediate, both were married to other people at the time. They became friends and recorded their first duet, "House of Love," in 1994.  In a 2011 interview with AARP Magazine, Gill insisted that there was no cheating and neither spoke to the other about leaving their spouse. "We were both married, and though we were crazy about each other, we thought, 'Well, that's not our life.'" Grant, who was married to Christian music artist Gary Chapman, even sought out marriage counseling.

  But Chapman knew how his wife felt about Gill. In 1997, when they learned the country star was getting divorced, Chapman told his wife that he was glad someone had finally made the first move. The Chapmans divorced in 1999 and Gill and Grant started dating shortly thereafter; they were married in March of 2000.

  Grant's divorce and remarriage damaged her career as a Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) artist; her music disappeared from many Christian retail stores and radio stations, and she received no more invitations to perform at high-profile events like Billy Graham crusades. In 2002, she told The New York Times, ''There are probably some things I have lost the privilege of participating in, and I don't find fault with that.'' To try and repair the rift with her fans, Grant released Legacy...Hymns and Faith in 2002. Co-produced by Gill, it was her first overtly religious album in many years; it won the Dove Award for the Inspirational Album of the Year. 

  She and Gill have continued to collaborate on occasion over the years and their annual Christmas residency at the Ryman is a Nashville tradition.
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  (#5) Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth

  Chris Frantz first met Tina Weymouth in a painting class at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972, when he apologized for his roommate's rude critique of her work. At first, she thought Frantz was gay because of the people he hung out with, but soon discovered he wasn't. They married in 1977.

  Frantz had also met David Byrne at RISD and they started a band that would eventually be called the Talking Heads in 1974. When they were unable to find a bass player, Frantz recruited Weymouth to fill that spot; she had only been playing the bass for about five months when Talking Heads had their first gig, opening for the Ramones at legendary New York club CBGB, on June 7, 1975. In the early days of Talking Heads, the couple lived with Byrne in a commercial loft with no heat and no bathroom . The band quickly had success, signing a record deal in 1976 and releasing their debut album the following year.

  On hiatus from Talking Heads in 1981, Frantz and Weymouth formed Tom Tom Club as a side project. In order to not be accused of riding the coattails of Talking Heads, they made sure that this new group would have a different sound. The debut album was released in 1981, and two singles from it hit Number One on Billboard's Dance chart. Although it remained a side project for the couple until Talking Heads disbanded, they made four Tom Tom Club albums from 1981-92, then returned with new music in 2000 and 2012. Meanwhile, Talking Heads had critical and commercial success throughout the 80s, but dissolved in an acrimonious split in 1991; the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

  Frantz and Weymouth had their first son in 1982, but by that time Frantz had started indulging in substances. Weymouth told him that he would have to go to rehabilitation if he wanted to keep living with her and their son, and the couple also did a lot of counseling. In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone , Weymouth was asked why she thought her marriage to Frantz had been so successful: "I think the consensus is generosity. I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt. Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important. Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That’s the golden rule."
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  (#8) Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne

  Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne met when she was just 18; her father, Don Arden, managed Black Sabbath, the group Ozzy fronted. When he was fired from the group in 1979 because of his problems with substances, she became his manager and they started dating. Ozzy divorced his first wife in 1982, and he and Sharon married on July 4 of that year.

  Violence, and substance abuse has threatened the marriage. The relationship hit rock bottom in August 1989 when a drunken Ozzy attempted to strangle his wife ; she called the police, and he ended up in rehabilitation for three months. The couple has continued to struggle with personal crises over the years: Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002 and underwent a double mastectomy in 2012 ; in 2013, Ozzy announced that, although currently sober, he had been using substances over the previous year and a half. In 2013 and 2016, the couple was rumored to be getting a divorce .

  Sharon has been credited for being a tough manager who revitalized her husband's career and built her own; in 1996, after the people who ran Lollapalooza laughed at her attempt to get Ozzy a slot in that festival, she launched Ozzfest. The family also starred in their own reality television series, The Osbournes (2002-05).

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