Many of the best bands in music rose to fame as a result of the relatable lyrics in their songs that resonate with fans. From songs about growing up to songs about loss, and especially songs about love, it's the humanity in these artists that makes their fans resonate with their work so deeply.

While many artists try to keep their private lives private, others are much more open about the origins of a song, and the relationships or events that inspired their lyrics. Sometimes, the reason why others are so open about the origins of a song is that the relationships these songs are about are actually with each other.

It's not exactly common, but there have been a number of bands who boast their very own love stories, and an even smaller number of bands composed of a couple who have tied the knot. These eight bands have enjoyed - or maybe fallen apart as a result of - the ultimate love story.

8 Fleetwood Mac

Christine McVie & John McVie

It seems to be common knowledge at this point that the greatest record of Fleetwood Mac's career, Rumours, came as a result of all the fighting going on within and among all five of the band's at the time. The fighting was between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who ed the band at the same time as a professional duo that was romantically involved, but also between married couple John and Christine McVie. The McVies were married in 1968, and subsequently divorced in 1976, not even a full decade later.

The couple were married, and Christine ed John's band, Fleetwood Mac, all in the same year. At first, she was just a session musician with the band, but it didn't take long for her to become an official member, and that's when the problems began. In Lesley-Ann Jones' biography Songbird, Mcvie is quoted as saying, "Being in the same band as your partner kills a relationship... In the end, you get to a point when you want to murder them, if they don’t try to kill you first." (US Weekly)

The hatred of one another, while certainly taking its toll on John and Christine personally, did wonders for the band's success. It provided them with the emotional, anger-driven lyrics of some of their greatest hits.

7 The White Stripes

Meg White & Jack White

The Detroit-based alt-rock duo, The White Stripes, is composed of a formerly-married couple, Jack and Meg White. When they met, they were both in high school, and Meg was working at a restaurant that Jack frequented. They dated for a few years before getting married in 1996 and forming The White Stripes not long after. The couple were only married for four years, however, before filing for divorce after releasing only one album together.

The divorce did not mean the end of the band, and Meg and Jack White remained friends and business partners for years after they separated. In fact, it wasn't until 2001 that The White Stripes released their first album on a record label, White Blood Cells, and started to break out into commercial success.

Given they were already divorced by the time they started gaining recognition outside of Detroit, at first, not many people knew of their origin as a married and since divorced couple. The duo actually told people they were siblings at one point, relishing the ambiguity; Jack and Meg White are nothing if not just plain weird. The sibling act was both a nod to their sustained friendship and an inside joke that their original fans in Detroit could be in on.

6 ABBA

Agnetha Fältskog & Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson & Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Where Fleetwood Mac was composed of two couples at a point, only one of those couples was actually married. Swedish band ABBA was composed of four that were two couples, both of whom were married during the band's tenure. Agnetha Fältskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus were married in 1971, roughly one year before ABBA was formed in 1972.

Ulvaeus had worked with Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad before, so when he and Fältskog were married, the four naturally came together to form Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-Frid, or ABBA. Ulvaeus and Fältskog had their first child in 1973, putting Fältskog on a brief musical hiatus, but when she returned, the foursome won Eurovision in 1974, beginning their run at international fame.

Lyngstad and Andersson had been in a relationship since 1969, but it wasn't until 1978 that they finally ed their fellow band in tying the knot. Not long after they were married, however, Ulvaeus and Fältskog announced their divorce, which started the band's unraveling. Lyngstad and Andersson filed for divorce in 1981, and ABBA subsequently broke up the next year in 1982.

5 Tedeschi Trucks Band

Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi

One of the greatest love stories in all of music history, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band were married in 2001 and are still going strong, almost a quarter of a century later. Where many, maybe even most, musical couples break up after collaborating, Tedeschi and Trucks had a solid foundation of nine years before they formed the Tedeschi Trucks band in 2010.

One of the greatest love stories in all of music history, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band were married in 2001 and are still going strong, almost a quarter of a century later.

The couple met while Derek Trucks was playing as a slide guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band in 1999 when the Susan Tedeshi Band opened for them. They were married just a couple of years later, and began touring together in 2007 as Soul Stew Revival, but were still primarily focused on their solo work. It wasn't until 2010 that they decided to bring their solo groups together to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Together, Tedeschi and Trucks have released five studio albums, their debut having won the Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2012. The couple not only front the Tedeschi Trucks Band, but they also front a family of four, with two children who have grown up alongside Tedeschi and Trucks' career.

4 Talking Heads

Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz

While the first thing anyone thinks of when they think of the Talking Heads is undoubtedly David Byrne and his wildly eclectic vocals and performances, he is not the only thing that makes the band unique. Drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth tied the knot in 1977, the same year the Talking Heads released their debut album. Weymouth and Frantz met in college, where they also met Byrne.

All three friends moved to New York City in 1975, where they met guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, and became the massively prolific Talking Heads. Weymouth and Frantz's marriage has not only withstood the test of time, as they are coming up on 50 years together, but it has also withstood the test of touring together for about 15 of those 50 years. Especially having gotten together when they were so young and just starting out, it's a wonder that Weymouth and Frantz were able to remain friends at all, let alone devoted husband and wife.

On top of their endless success in the Talking Heads, as if the couple truly couldn't get enough of each other, they formed their side project, Tom Tom Club, in 1981. The true picture of an abundant musical life, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth have enjoyed that abundance beyond their career as well, living as a family with their two sons.

3 Arcade Fire

Win Butler & Régine Chassagne

Canadian indie rock vocalist Win Butler began playing with guitarist Josh Deu in college in 2001, and shortly after, they met Régine Chassagne and, alongside a few other classmates and musicians, formed Arcade Fire. Deu left the band after the release of their self-titled EP, and by the time their first album was released, Butler and Chassagne were the only two left who were also present on the EP.

Butler and Chassagne got married in 2003, roughly one year before the release of their debut album, Funeral. Over the course of the band's tenure, it's been clear that Butler and Chassagne's chemistry, both musically and personally, has been a driving force in their success. All six of their studio albums have charted on the Billboard 200, and with the sole exception of Funeral, which peaked at 123, the rest of their albums have all reached the top ten.

Over the course of the band's tenure, it's been clear that Butler and Chassagne's chemistry, both musically and personally, has been a driving force in their success.

The couple tend to keep their life outside of Arcade Fire relatively private, but they did welcome a son in 2013. Now, they're gearing up for their seventh album's release in May 2025.

2 New Order

Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert

After the death of vocalist Ian Curtis, the remaining of Joy Division stuck together to form New Order along with keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who had been on tour with Joy Division in the past. About a decade into New Order's tenure, Gilbert got engaged to drummer Stephen Morris, the same year that the pair branched off to release their first album as The Other Two, a nod to the fact that Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner had already embarked on side projects of their own.

Gilbert got engaged to drummer Stephen Morris, the same year that the pair branched off to release their first album as The Other Two.

Amid the couple's success in New Order and The Other Two, they had two daughters, the younger of whom got sick with a rare disease that left her paralyzed at a very young age. This forced Gilbert to leave the band to care for her daughter just before the band was set to go on tour. She told Pitchfork Magazine, "I didn’t want my daughter to be ill, but at the time I couldn’t think of going on tour with the children."

Gilbert, however, and her marriage to Morris, were incredibly resilient. Not only did their relationship make it through the adversity, but Gilbert returned to New Order in 2011, and has remained with the band, married to Morris, ever since.

1 Wings

Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney

After The Beatles, Paul McCartney went on to form his band Wings in 1971. With him were drummer Denny Seiwell, former guitarist of the Moody Blues Denny Laine, and his wife and keyboardist Linda McCartney. The band formed after McCartney released his second solo album, Ram, which prominently featured Linda on backing and harmony vocals. The album also included the song "Monkberry Moon Delight," on which Linda's daughter and Paul's adopted daughter Heather contributed backing vocals as well.

After the family affair that was Ram, Paul and Linda formed Wings, which saw Linda not only as a backing vocalist, but as the lead keyboardist as well. Paul, Linda, and Laine were the only three of Wings to remain with the band from their start in 1971 until the release of their final album in 1979 and subsequent breakup in 1981.

Paul and Linda were experiencing the growing pressures of parenthood with three kids at home, which, along with some other difficulties and tensions between Paul and Laine, eventually led to Wings' demise. Paul and Linda, however, were married for nearly thirty years, until Linda's untimely death in 1998 at just 56 years old.