Coma things and others: when the couple bursts

Through a long message entrusted to the official social channels dedicated to their musical project, I Coma things, Francesca Mesiano, also known with the pseudonym of California, and Fausto Zanardelli, also known by the pseudonym of Fausto Lama, announced the end of their relationship. The two then broke that link which, for ten years, represented the beating heart of one of the most original projects of the contemporary Italian scene. The story of California and Fausto, intertwined since the beginning between love and music, and which in 2024 has seen them married at a marriage, fits into a long tradition of couples who have made creative complicity a reflection, or sometimes a battlefield, of their own sentimental life. The history of music is dotted with relationships that generated harmonies and wounds, told in the songs: from the tormented alchemy between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckinghamcapable of turning into an album – such as “Buckingham Nicks”, returned to the shops last September 19 – and in immortal hymns such as some classics of the Fleetwood Mac, up to the contrasts of Ike and Tina Turner and to the political and folk love of Bob Dylan and Joan Baezpassing through the duets of Sonny and Chercoming to the shared successes in Italy of Al Bano and Romina Power.

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez

Albeit relatively short, that between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez It was a sentimental relationship capable not only of influencing their respective careers and lives, but also music for the years to come. After the First meeting that took place in 1961both became supporters of each other at the beginning of their musical adventures. Bob and Joan established a strong collaboration, made of exchanges and duets, giving life to a bond that was perceived as a symbol of the folk movement and the social protest of the time. However, the sentimental relationship between the two was complicated: while feeling affection and mutual esteem, the character differences and the rapid ascent of Dylan led to frequent tensions and, in the end, to the romantic separation. However, even after years, the link between Bob and Joan is counterinuously celebrated and remembered, as in the recent film “A Complete Unknown”, with Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in the role of the two musical icons. During a meeting with the press that took place in Milan last July to present her new book “When you see my mother, ask them to dance”, Joan Baez He even had to open the chat with a joke about his colleague: “I still have to talk about him? But if I have not heard him for a lot years”, joked the artist, forced by a life to have to say his on Dylan.

Ike & Tina Turner

It cannot be denying that most of the career of Ike Turner derives from the artistic project collected under the combination Ike & Tina Turner RevueR&B duo that saw the two artists collaborate – who were also husband and wife – between 1960 and 1976, signing classics as “It’s skirts Work Out fine” and “River Deep, Mountain High”. The artistic and personal partnership had many dark sides, with heavy accusations of violence by Tina against him. The relationship of the two has in fact deteriorated above all for the excessive control that the man claims to have on her and on her career, so much so that in the mid -seventies the situation tense began to affect the profession of profession. After his first solo album, “Tina Turns the country on!”, Still produced by Ike, Tina finally decided to leave her husband to try to find herself both in music and in life.

Sonny & Cher

When they met in the sixties, Sonny and Cher immediately intertwined their lives, becoming supporters of each other both in the heart and on the music scene. After getting married in 1964, Sonny Bono’s bond and Cher transformed them into one of the most famous duo of their era, capable of enchanting the public with songs such as “I Got You Babe”. Their career together reached great successes with television shows and tours, but the personal differences and fame pressures put their wedding to the test. In the seventies their sentimental relationship ended, while continuing to leave an indelible mark on American music and culture.

Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham

When Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the Fleetwood Mac in 1975, they were a couple And they went to form, together with John and Christine Mcvie, the second couple present in the group. Two years later, the band was immersed in the recording of what would become one of the most famous albums in the history of pop rock, “rumors”, but both reports had already ended. John and Christine had divorced, while Stevie and Lindsey had put an end to their story after years of sentimental bond. Although Lindsey Buckingham has repeatedly argued that the end of the relationship with Nicks had contributed to bringing stability to the Fleetwood Mac, the two had practically no longer bonds outside the work sphere. In an interview given in 2024 to the US magazine “Rolling Stone”, the musician had reiterated once again that he had no regrets for having closed the relationships with Lindsey, underlining that he had given his former bandmate and life “more than 300 million possibilities”. The Fleetwood Mac star also said that the last time he had contacts with Buckingham was in 2023, during the commemorative ceremony of the bandmate Christine Mcvie, the singer and keyboard player of the group who passed away on November 30, 2022 at the age of 79.

Al Bano and Romina Power

“We are like Al Bano and Romina but at Leoncavallo“, The same coma things joined in 2021, on the eve of their participation in Sanremo 2021 with” Flames in the eyes “. Although their relationship lasted for other years after the debut at Ariston and the return last February with” Tested “, that phrase of Fausto and California now takes on a flavor different from that of a simple joke. When at the Bano and Romina Power they met in marriage. They intertwined in a bond of love and songs that made them one of the most loved duo in Italy. that unfortunately they then left.

In addition to those already mentioned, there are many couples born and evolved through the songs. Impossible not to mention Jack and Meg Whitewho married before the success of their band, White Stripesand despite the subsequent divorce continued to work together until the melting of the group in 2011.
In 1981, Kim Gordon founded i Sonic Youth together with Thurson Moorewith whom he married to the wedding in 1984. The couple gave birth to one of the most influential bands in the eighties and nineties, publishing a total of fifteen albums. The last album of the group “The Eternal” was released in 2009, before the dissolution in 2011, after the separation of Gordon and Moore. Among these, the members of the Abba: Agnetha fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus, years-year-old Lyngstad and Benny Anderssonboth formed two couples, both ended up in divorce.