Music History Events: Marriages
April 29, 1995 Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility, while Shakur is serving a four-and-a-half-year jail term for sexual assault.
April 9, 1994 Wayne Newton marries his second wife, Kathleen.
February 14, 1994 The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.
August 21, 1993 Elton John's longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin marries his third wife, Stephanie Haymes.
July 10, 1993 Bob Seger marries his third wife, Juanita Dorricott.
April 21, 1993 Bill Wyman, formerly of The Rolling Stones, marries his third wife, 33-year-old fashion designer Suzanne Accosta, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
April 17, 1993 Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles.
October 10, 1992 Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash gets married for the first time, tying the knot with actress Renee Suran in Marina Del Rey, California. They divorce in 1997; Slash gets married again in 2001.
August 20, 1992 Sting marries Trudie Styler at their estate in Wiltshire, England. The couple first met in 1977 when Sting was a struggling musician and Trudie was trying to make it as an actress.
July 26, 1992 Kiss frontman Paul Stanley marries Pamela Bowen.
June 6, 1992 David Bowie and Iman renew their vows in Florence, Italy, after wondering about the legality of their wedding in Switzerland.
May 8, 1992 Will Smith (AKA the Fresh Prince) marries a songwriter named Sheree Zampino, who is pregnant with their son Trey. The couple divorce in 1995.
April 24, 1992 David Bowie marries his second wife, the Somalian-born supermodel and entrepreneur Iman, in a private ceremony in Switzerland. The couple relocate to New York City soon after, and in 2000, Iman gives birth to Alexandria Jones - Bowie's second child (his son, the film director Duncan Jones, was born to his first wife, Angela Barnett, in 1971).
April 11, 1992 Country singer Lee Greenwood marries Kimberly Payne, who was Miss Tennessee in 1989.
October 27, 1991 Country music singer Jimmy Dean, 62, marries his second wife, fellow country singer Donna Meade, 38. The two would stay married until Dean's death in 2010.
October 27, 1991 Country music singer Lorrie Morgan marries Brad Thompson, a tour bus driver for singer Clint Black. The two met when the singer toured with Black and Merle Haggard in 1990. Black, who married just one week earlier, serves as best man. Morgan and Thompson divorce in 1993.
October 20, 1991 Country music singer Clint Black marries TV actress Lisa Hartman. The couple met when Hartman and her mother attended a New Year's concert Black gave in Houston.
May 31, 1991 Randy Travis marries his manager, Lib Hatcher, who was his court-appointed legal guardian when Randy was 17 and she was 35.
May 3, 1991 Andy Williams marries his second wife, Debbie Haas, in New York City.
April 28, 1991 Bonnie Raitt marries her first husband, actor Michael O'Keefe. Her father, the singer John Raitt, wears a kilt as a nod to their Celtic heritage and sings a song called "My Heart's Darlin'." The couple divorce in 1999.
April 20, 1991 John Fogerty marries his second wife, Julie Lebiedzinksi, in Elkhart, Indiana. The couple met at a party following one of his concerts in 1986. "Suddenly the crowd parted, and there was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen in my life," Fogerty said.
November 21, 1990 Mick Jagger and the model/actress Jerry Hall get married in a six-hour ceremony on the island of Bali. When they split eight years later, Jagger claims they never registered and thus were never actually married. The couple settle on an annulment, with a lucrative payout for Hall.
September 17, 1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries music producer and arranger Andre Fischer. Cole files for divorce less than three years later citing "irreconcilable differences."
April 28, 1989 Jon Bon Jovi marries his high-school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
October 3, 1988 Lisa Marie Presley marries her first husband, musician Danny Keough (the union lasts five years).
May 28, 1988 Steven Tyler of Aerosmith gets married for the second time when he ties the knot with Teresa Barrick, in her hometown of Tulsa. The union lasts 17 years.
December 23, 1987 Carly Simon marries her second husband, James Hart. They divorce in 2006; he later comes out as gay.
November 8, 1987 The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson marries his second wife, Gina Martin, daughter of legendary crooner Dean Martin.
May 16, 1987 David Crosby marries his longtime girlfriend Jan Dance in Los Angeles, with bandmate Stephen Stills giving away the bride and Graham Nash renewing his vows with wife Susan.
January 18, 1987 Steve Winwood marries Eugenia Grafton.
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