Random Rock Stars You Didn't Realize Were Swapping Ladies All Tim (12 items)

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  (#1) George Harrison, Eric Clapton, And Pattie Boyd, AKA "Layla"

  George Harrison spotted his future wife Pattie in 1964 while he was making A Hard Day's Night. The two dated until getting married in 1966. The Harrisons were reasonably happy, and George's career thrived following the Beatles' breakup.

  In the late '60s and early '70s, George Harrison began working closely with and befriended Eric Clapton. This led to the unfortunate circumstance of Clapton falling desperately in love with Pattie Harrison. His 1970 song "Layla" - which was the product of a whole host of lurid things happening in Clapton's personal life - was inspired by a classic, Middle Eastern narrative poem titled "Layla and Majnun," which is about a man who is driven mad by his love for an unobtainable woman. Clapton made his feelings clear to both Harrisons, but initially Pattie was not persuaded.

  As the '70s progressed, and George Harrison's promiscuity and drug usage became increasingly more extreme, Pattie Harrison filed for divorce. In 1974, Pattie and Clapton became a couple and ultimately married in 1979. Harrison wasn't angry and even showed up at the wedding reception. Ultimately, the same issues that destroyed her marriage to Harrison would precipitate Pattie's divorce from Clapton, and the couple split in 1988. Perhaps settling for something a little more stable, Pattie Harrison Clapton married her longtime companion, Rod Weston, a property developer, in 2015.
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  (#2) The Anita Pallenberg Rolling Stones Rectangle

  One high-profile woman actually got involved with what could only be described as a love rectangle with three members of the Rolling Stones. Anita Pallenberg was a 21-year-old model when she met Stones guitarist Brian Jones in Munich, Germany.

  In 1967, Pallenberg left Jones after the musician was violently abusive, and she took up with Keith Richards. This relationship lasted 12 years and produced three children, one of whom died in infancy. It ended when a 17-year-old boy shot himself in the head in Pallenberg's bed - in the home that she and Richards shared in upstate New York.

  Richards was in Europe, recording a Stones album, and while the subsequent investigation ruled the action a suicide, it was clear that Pallenberg and the boy, Scott Cantrell, were involved in a sexual relationship. Even for Richards, who had shared heroin addiction, an infamous narcotics bust, and the crib death of their child with Pallenberg, this was too far over the line, and he broke it off with his wife. 

  In the 1970's, Pallenberg allegedly engaged in a brief affair with Mick Jagger when both were making the film Performance. Pallenberg has denied it, but Keith Richards has always accepted this relationship as a reality.  
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  (#3) David Bowie, Jimmy Page, And Lori Mattix

  Lori Mattix was 14 years old when she met David Bowie for the first time. As she described the meeting, which was during the infamous Ziggy Stardust tour: "he had hair the color of carrots, no eyebrows, and the whitest skin imaginable." At the time, Lori's father was deceased, and her mother had a night job that precluded adult supervision, so Lori was able to romp along the Sunset Strip instead of doing her homework.

  Bowie suggested that they adjourn to his hotel, but Lori wasn't quite ready, so she claimed she was there with another man. Several months later, Bowie had his security guard ring up Lori, by now 15, and had her and a friend driven to his suite at the Beverly Hilton. Once there, Lori lost her virginity and then wound up in a three-way with Bowie and her friend, Sable.

  Lori got a call from Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin requesting her to come and party at the Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard a few weeks later. This was the hotel that routinely saw televisions and furniture hurled out of windows and banned its worst malefactor, Keith Moon. Laurie, nervous at the idea of picking up with another rock star so soon after her encounter with Bowie, kept her distance - for a while at least. 

  Later, at the Rainbow Bar, she was essentially captured by Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant and transported back to Page's room at the Hyatt. Page became so infatuated with Lori that he even asked her mother for permission to date her 15-year-old daughter. The two had a strong relationship until Mattix discovered Page cheating on her in a hotel suite with Bebe Buell.

  That kind of ended it for Lori as far as Page went, but she went on to a few trysts with Mick Jagger before heading into groupie retirement.
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  (#4) Todd Rundgren, Steven Tyler, And Bebe Buell

  Bebe Buell dated many high-profile rock musicians, including Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Jimmy Page, and Iggy Pop. Beginning in 1972, she entered into a relatively serious relationship with Todd Rundgren that would last until 1979.

  In 1976, she became pregnant and ultimately gave birth to a child she named Liv Rundgren. Here's the rub: Buell couldn't be sure that Rundgren was the father because, at the time, she had engaged in sexual activity with another famous musician: Steven Tyler.

  Although Rundgren and Buell's relationship dissolved shortly after Liv's birth, they maintained the facade concerning Liv's paternity until the girl was 11 years old. Over the years, Liv has remained close with Steven Tyler and Todd Rundgren, both of whom she considers her father.
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  (#5) Marianne Faithful Swapped The Stones

  Anita Pallenberg wasn't the only woman to create her own personal soap opera within the Rolling Stones. Marianne Faithfull also started with Brian Jones but wound up as the official steady girlfriend of Mick Jagger.

  However, she stated that Jagger spent most of his energy either performing or chasing other women around, and by the time they settled into their home's four-poster bed, he typically preferred a book. She would also claim that throughout her relationship with Jagger, she was much more attracted to Keith Richards.

  Marianne Faithfull described sleeping with Richards as "the best night of my life." Jagger and Faithfull broke it off after four years, a miscarriage, and blatant promiscuity on Jagger's part.

  Faithfull descended into heroin addiction, unemployment, and ultimately homelessness, which culminated in several successful professional comebacks and re-inventions in the '80s and '90s. 
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  (#6) The Men Of Fleetwood Mac And The Women Of Fleetwood Mac

  In 1974, when Mick Fleetwood invited Lindsey Buckingham to join his band and grudgingly accepted Stevie Nicks as part of the package, Fleetwood Mac was going through its ninth and potentially final iteration. The band subsequently released one of the most successful popular music albums in entertainment history, an effort that included "Rhiannon," "Landslide," "Say You Love Me," "Over My Head," and "Monday Morning." It followed this up with Rumours, a very thinly disguised account of the breakup of both Buckingham and Nicks and Christine and John McVie.

  Overwhelmed by alcohol and cocaine abuse, the band somehow staggered through the recording of an album that was exponentially more successful than its predecessor. The band members all credit Mick Fleetwood as being the one rock of stability during this process, keeping things together when other band members either wanted to quit or physically and mentally felt they couldn't continue.

  Then, subsequent to the album's release and an eight-month tour, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks became involved in a clandestine affair. Not only did this threaten to permanently destroy the group, but Fleetwood was also married with two small children. This occurred at the peak of the band's success and was potentially indicative of a downward trajectory. The band's next album Tusk was interesting but not nearly as successful or popular as Rumours. Fleetwood Mac would never return to the heady days of 1979.   
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  (#7) Ringo Starr, George Harrison, And Maureen Starkey

  The adulterous relationship that ended George Harrison's marriage to his wife Pattie involved his Beatles' compatriot, Ringo Starr's, wife. One night, Pattie came home to Ringo's wife Maureen Starkey in bed with Harrison. She described this as the final straw that compelled her to end the marriage. In the '80s,

  Harrison was relatively nonchalant when asked how he could do this to his friend and band mate. "Incest, I guess," was his response.
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  (#8) The Members Of The Mamas & The Papas

  John and Michelle Phillips were one half of the '60s group The Mamas & the Papas, and they were also married. At one point, the couple were so tight that one night, when John woke up from a dream that became the beginning of the song "California Dreamin'," his wife helped him complete one of the most remembered songs of the 20th century. But the wild LA music scene quickly affected both their marriage and the other band members.

  Michelle Phillips engaged in an affair with band member Denny Doherty. This would ultimately be forgiven by Phillips but would alienate Cass Elliot, who was attracted to Doherty in a perpetually unrequited situation. 
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  (#9) Billy Corgan, Kurt Cobain, And Courtney Love

  In 1991, Courtney Love was involved with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan when she wound up on a ferry with Nirvana as they returned from a Danish music festival. Corgan and the Pumpkins played the same festival, but the rockstar declined to front her an airline ticket, hence the ferry ride.

  Within months, Love dumped Corgan and got together with Kurt Cobain. The rest is twisted rock history. After Kobain's death, Corgan and Love would spar over her incorporating his music without permission, but, unpredictably, Corgan moved in with Love in 2006 and began professionally collaborating with her again. Apparently, that didn't end well.

  In 2010, Corgan publicly stated: “I have no interest in supporting her in any way, shape or form. You can’t throw enough things down the abyss with a person like that.”
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  (#10) Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, And Carla Bruni

  Long before she crashed international political circles as the sophisticated wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni was the 23-year-old fashion model girlfriend of Eric Clapton. Clapton introduced Bruni to his friend Mick Jagger at a party and regretted it immediately. He even requested that Jagger leave Bruni to him, to no avail.

  Within weeks, Jagger and Bruni were an item, and Clapton was disconsolate. But he wasn't as upset as Jagger's wife, Jerry Hall, who issued a divorce ultimatum over the relationship. Jagger temporarily placated his wife and broke it off but ultimately divorced Hall anyway.

  Of the relationship, Bruni eventually remembered: “It was a fling. I was in my twenties, so I wasn’t thinking about a relationship. There were so many other women with Mick. I don’t think I was responsible [for his split with Hall]... There were maybe ten other women.”
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  (#11) Steve Winwood, Eric Burdon, Jim Morrison, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, And Linda McCartney

  Paul and Linda McCartney are remembered as having an idyllically romantic relationship that became a popular culture tragedy when Linda died prematurely from cancer in 1998. Paul, a previously notorious womanizer, seemed to settle down with the "lovely Linda" and enjoyed a life of domestic bliss.

  According to a biography written by Linda's close friend, she and Paul were open with one another about what they considered their "conquests." Sometimes, Linda even added names to hers of men she hadn't actually slept with.

  Regardless, some of the names on her list include Steve Winwood, Eric Burdon, Jim Morrison, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, and Warren Beatty. 
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  (#12) Rod Stewart, James McDonnell, And Britt Eckland

  Rod Stewart was famously involved with model and actress Britt Ekland, and Ekland even provided the backing vocals for Stewart's provocative hit "Tonight's the Night." Afterward, Ekland  married Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom (AKA James McDonnell), a marriage that lasted eight years in the '80s and '90s.

  Stewart famously moved on to Rachel Hunter, a 21-year-old, 6-foot-tall fashion model who, as a teenager, dated MTV music star Kip Winger. Stewart and Hunter married in 1990, but Hunter, after two children, divorced Stewart in 2006. 

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