Love & Misery

His marriage to her was one of pop’s great love stories for almost 30 years. These 2 met at a night club Located in a basement in Soho, London.  This was the late sixties and the two were watching a performer that went by the name Georgie Fame (with his backup band the Blue Flames). At  the time, she was a photographer for a small rock magazine and happened to be at the club with the group “The An...

There is a saying that behind every great man there’s a great woman. Today we present one of the truest examples of that. This is the story of a brilliant Surrealist painter & his wife, without whom he would have never become an icon of modern art. She was 10 years older than him and when they met in 1929 she was also married to someone else and was a mother of a little girl.  She also had a l...

To mention these two is to invoke the 1920s, the Jazz Age, romance, and their outrageous early success, with all its attendant pitfalls. Their names can summon images of taxis at dusk, they conjure images of gleaming hotel lobbies and smoky speakeasies, flappers, yellow phaetons, white suits, large tips, expatriates, and nostalgia for the Lost Generation.  They also remind us of what the effect of...

This man is known around the world as one of the most powerful emperors that ever lived, but his first wife, was an amazing leader in her own right, and the story of her life is one of the best things you'll hear about today. She was 17 and he was 16 when they got married. She was a skilled archer, mother of nine, her husband's most trusted adviser, and loved by her people. While he was out there...

Easily the most iconic country music romance of all time, these two had a love story that transcended time, addiction, and the highs and lows of  fame. From performing hit crossover songs ("Jackson"), to inspiring an Oscar-caliber movie about their relationship, these two remain to this day  one of the most famous and celebrated relationships of the 20th century. But it wasn't always smooth sailin...

Describing the relationship and marriage of these too people as on-again, off-again, on-again, would be a massive understatement. Across 12 years, the pair dated, split, became engaged to another, dated again and then decided rather than split they should wed. After the marriage ended they continued to date for another 10 years. She was a three-time Emmy-nominated and Grammy-winning actress and au...

We were originally going to do this podcast on King Mohammed VI & Princess Lalla Salma…as proposed to us from our friend Ms. Marci. But, we didn’t find enough material about the “ghost princess”…we found too much information about her being alive and we found a lot of sensationalized journalism trying to make this a bigger item than it was. So, instead, this episode will be on another couple....

These two would be 25 years apart in age. He ended up with a string of marriages. In fact, this woman didn’t even like this man when they met at first, but they eventually married.  She was 19 years old and very impressionable and he was 44 and very experienced. They starred in 4 major released movies together from 1944-1948 and eventually fell madly in love. If you listened to our last podcast la...

These two represent a premier song writer & social activist and an Avant guard multimedia artist & social activist. He was once a front person in the biggest rock band in the world and some say the reason that this band broke up was because of her. I personally don’t think so, and feel that she got a bad rap…These two met each other at one of her art exhibitions in the United Kingdom and g...

Our story this week deals with a girl who was the last queen of France before the French revolution. And the man who was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. These two lived a life of excess in the Palace of Versailles while their people were literally starving in the streets. She is famous for using the phrase, “Let them eat cake”, but I found out...

Possibly the most infamous and most romanticized criminals in American history, this couple were two young Texans whose early 1930s crime spree forever imprinted them upon the national consciousness. Their names have become synonymous with an image of Depression-era chic, a world where women chomped on cigars and brandished automatic rifles, men robbed banks and drove away in squealing automobiles...

Our couple this week was supposed to be John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, but we decided to not pursue this story…maybe because this family has been through too much or maybe because these wounds are still too fresh…either way, this week we are talking about another couple. This new duo is a couple of artists that got together during the early 1900’s and both made a splash in the art wor...

Our couple this week is a historical couple or should I say historical couple plus one. He ruled England For 36 years in the 16th Century. She was a queen of England for 3 years…and her sister was a lady in the Queen of France’s court and a lady appointed to the court of Catherine of Aragon in England. If you Listened to our podcast last week then you already know our story this week is about King...

This love relationship was as complicated as it was devoted, the bond between these two greats big Screen stars stretched across three decades and lasted through nine films (where they both shared billing). Two of the biggest movies that they made during this time include:  “Woman of the Year” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (ranked #99 of the American Film Institute’s top 100 films of all time...

The relationship was the most talked about in Rock n Roll in the 1990’s. In September of 1992, Lynn Hirschberg wrote a piece for Vanity Fair where she set out to find out if this new pair were the grunge version Of John and Yoko or the next Sid and Nancy (eg. The next peace couple or the next horror show)?  These two first met on Friday, January 12th, 1990 (some people say it was February 12th, so...

She first met him in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House, home of the Earl and Countess of Crewe. In March 1908, they met again when seated side by side at a dinner party hosted by Lady St. Helier, a distant relative of her.  On their first brief encounter, Winston had recognized her beauty and distinction; now, after an evening spent in her company, he realized she was a girl of lively intelligence and...

On the morning of March 2, 1964, a 19-year-girl flagged down a taxi to Paddington Station. She’d been instructed by her modelling agency to meet three other models under the station’s clock at eight AM sharp. From there, they’d join a train halfway down platform one and meet the film crew—that’s where the instructions ended. She had been working non-stop modelling jobs for few years after moving f...

She was an actress during MGM's "Golden Age." The daughter of a prosperous Viennese banker, she was privately tutored from age 4; by the time she was 10, she was a proficient pianist and dancer and could speak four languages. At age 16 she was enrolled in Max Reinhardt’s Berlin-based dramatic school, and within a year she made her motion picture debut in Geld auf der Strasse (1930; Money on the St...

In my ninety-plus years I’ve lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front- row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created or developed more than a hundred shows; had nine on the air at the same time; founded the 300,000-member liberal advocacy group (People for the American Way); was labeled the “No. 1 enemy of the American family” by Jerry Falwell; ma...

When faced with death, this Byzantine emperor was a cowardly figure. The same could not be said of his wife, during a revolt in Constantinople in the year 532, he was ready to make a run for it, but the audacious empress implored him to stay to save his reign. She arose from her throne and uttered the phrase “If you wish to save yourself, my lord, there is no difficulty… As for me, I agree with th...

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton has quite a run in the 60's & 70's.  Hear all about their highs and lows in this weeks episode of Love & Misery.

This couple’s relationship started out platonic. When they first met in 1963, she was 16, while he was 27 and married (he and his first wife were separated). At the time, he was more interested her friend, not in her. But from the beginning, they seemed to have a connection. "Everyone just disappeared," she said when first laying eyes on him, she told Elle Magazine in 2018. "He was the most unusua...

Our first couple is one of the most famous in history and is still being discuss over 2000 years after their deaths. I’m speaking of Antony & Cleopatra. We are going to do a dive into these two lives and debunk some myths about their lives and relationship together. I think that a lot of people are familiar with these two because of the Shakespeare play (one of my favorite playwrights and word...

These two met while filming “Too Many Girls” in 1940. At the time, She was engaged, and He was in a very serious relationship himself.  But, almost instantly, they were in love. They spent the night together after Knowing each other a few days, then called their respective significant others and broke it off.  A fitting impulsive start for them. Their relationship was tumultuous and passionate to...