Weddings in the sparkling rock world and its anecdotes.

On May 1, 1967, the real Elvis Presley, King of Rock ’n’ Roll, married his girlfriend of many years, Priscilla Beaulieu, far from Graceland, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. There were no impersonators in sight, but there were members of the press, who were invited by the star’s manager to a press conference between the intimate ceremony and champagne breakfast for 100 that followed. Though relatively discreet for a celebrity wedding, this was one for the books. Forty-nine years after Elvis and Priscilla said “I do” (but not “I obey”), we revisit, in detail, the couple’s big day.

Before the reception, Parker had arranged for the lovebirds to give a press conference, after which they joined 100 guests seated at 10 round tables for a champagne breakfast, served buffet style at the hotel. There are many photos of the couple with their
five-foot-tall, six-tier cake, which was made of yellow sponge, filled with apricot marmalade and kirsch-flavored Bavarian cream, and iced with kirsch-flavored fondant icing. It was decorated with royal icing and, according to one account, 1,600 marzipan roses. Source Vogue

Macca

It was just another night out in London for Paul McCartney. After attending Brian Epstein’s dinner party to celebrate the completion of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles‘ bassist hit the town with some buddies. McCartney headed to Soho’s Bag O’Nails club, where he was a regular with his own table. That night, May 15, 1967, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were playing. (source: ultimateclassicrock)

A young photographer by the name of Linda Eastman had been taken to the Bag O’Nails by some of her friends. Her career began when she shot the Rolling Stones,   Hendrix, the Who, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and many others. There McCartney start dating with Linda and soon got married.

  George Harrison

I bought a Mary Quant pinky-red shot-silk dress, which came to just above the knee, and I wore it with creamy stockings and pointy red shoes. On top, because it was January and cold, I wore a red fox-fur coat, also by Mary Quant, that George gave me. She made George a beautiful black Mongolian lamb coat.

The ceremony took place early in the morning at Epsom register office, in Surrey, not the most glamorous place, and the room was very hot and stuffy. Brian Epstein was there and Paul McCartney, who was George's best man. Otherwise it was family – my mother, with her cousin Penny Evans, who had been around a lot while I was growing up. Colin, Jenny, Paula, David and Boo, George's parents and brothers. Uncle John, my mother's twin brother, gave me away. (sourcehttps://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/01/21/george-harrison-marries-pattie-boyd/)

Lennon

Pete Townshend is fighting to save his £40million fortune after his wife of 40 years filed for divorce.

Karen Astley, who has been separated from The Who guitarist for 15 years, has hired Fiona Shackleton, the formidable lawyer who represented Sir Paul McCartney in his split from Heather Mills.

The couple's decree nisi, the first stage of the divorce process, was announced in the High Court yesterday.

Ringo

The ex-Beatle married The Spy Who Loved Me star Bach in April 1981, less than six months after John Lennon was shot dead.It was Bach's second marriage - she separated from her first husband, an Italian businessman called Augusto Gregorini, in 1975.

Also pictured are Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife Linda and George Harrison and his second wife, Mexican-born Olivia Trinidad Arias.

While Sir Paul remained married to Linda until her death from cancer in 1998, he went on to marry again.

Paul  Simon Carrie Fisher

Paul Simon and carry Fisher: a fast marriage and faster divorce. The two were involved in a turbulent relationship for nearly 12 years, which began in the '80s, where they both married an then divorced within a year due to Fisher's heavy drug abuse.

In Simon's biography "Homeward Bound," author Peter Ames Carlin detailed the singer's connection with Fisher — who died  at 60 — noting that "once they saw each other, no one else mattered to either of them."Fisher wrote in her own memoir “Wishful Drinking” that Simon’s classic hit “She Moves On” was actually about her leaving.In it, he sings that he was both “abandoned” and “forsaken.”“She says ‘Ooh my storybook lover // You have underestimated my power.

Ronnie Wood

The rock star faces a possible £50 million divorce settlement after Jo allegedly contacted her lawyers because of his continuing relationship with a 20-year-old Russian.

Wood, 61, was recently photographed enjoying a romantic meal with Ekaterina Ivanova at a fashionable London restaurant. His wife now reportedly just wants to be friends with him rather than married.

Speaking at the Berkeley Square Ball, she told The Daily Mail: "We've been through too much together not to stay as friends whatever happens next. "I'm still in touch with him and I've seen him And despite everything I still really care for Ronnie."

Kate Moss and Ronnie Wood are the last to leave Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell's wedding party at 3am as neighbours complain about the noise