Rock Stars You Didn't Realize Were Swapping Ladies All The Time

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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. 

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.