Rock and roll stars are rarely troubled by the 10 Commandments, which is perhaps why infidelity has been such a constant, destabilising theme throughout the tenure of The Rolling Stones; the harbingers of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.<\/p>\n
Looking back upon the early days of the blues-rock masters, broken hearts, shattered relationships, and rising tensions were something of an inevitability.<\/p>\n
After all, the band members were still teenagers when they first got together, and within a few years they were being hailed as rock gods, riding high on the pop charts week after week, and travelling around the world to play concerts to thousands of screaming girls. When you add copious amounts of drugs and alcohol into the mix, the strange interpersonal relationships of the Stones begin to make sense.<\/p>\n
Even when the band started to mature, if only a little, infidelity was still a common occurrence within the ranks of the Stones. Keith Richards, for instance, ended up together with Anita Pallenberg on a trip to Morocco, when the actor\u2019s boyfriend, Brian Jones, was held back a few days due to illness. Arguably, that particular instance could be cited as a prevailing reason for Jones\u2019 further descent into mental health struggles, ultimately spelling the end of his time with the band that he started back in 1962.<\/p>\n
Some of the group\u2019s relationship troubles were much more out-of-the-blue than the Morocco debacle, though. During the 1970s, the Stones were well and truly on the upper echelon of rock and roll stardom, and that meant they were able to rub shoulders with a broad range of other celebrity stars, even if those figures weren\u2019t always the most trustworthy.<\/p>\n
Namely, the group fostered something of a friendship with the legendary actor and comedian John Belushi, who was about as close to a rockstar that it was possible for a comedian to become \u2013 he had perfected the sex and drugs part of the equation, at the very least. From his time with the National Lampoon, to SNL, to the comedic mastery of films like The Blues Brothers, Belushi was beloved by millions of people, but Ronnie Wood wasn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n
The Rolling Stones\u2019 guitarist was not particularly charmed by Belushi\u2019s comedic talents, and tensions began to arise between the two when the Animal House actor started hitting on Wood\u2019s then-partner, Jo Karslake. \u201cHe always used to try to get off with my ex-wife, Jo. He used to propose to her when I was asleep,\u201d the guitarist recalled to Classic Rock in 2010.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say: \u2018John, I can hear you, you fat git. If you weren\u2019t so fat and ugly you might stand a chance.\u2019\u201d Ouch. Still, Wood\u2019s disdain for Belushi didn\u2019t stop there. \u201cLike all comedians he was really pathetic, and he had a low tolerance to alcohol and drugs,\u201d the Rolling Stone continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cDan Aykroyd used to always put him in my care when he came to Hollywood. He used to drop him off at my house and say: \u2018I know he\u2019s safe now, I can go off and leave him.\u2019 Then he\u2019d go off and do his stuff.\u201d In fairness, leaving a drug addict in the warm bosom of the Rolling Stones wasn\u2019t exactly the best plan in terms of keeping Belushi out of trouble, although Wood did note, \u201cThe only time he didn\u2019t do that was when he died. John booked himself into the Chateau Marmont.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe dearly wanted to be a rock star,\u201d Wood concluded, and by the looks of Belushi\u2019s performances as Joe Cocker on SNL, or as Joliet Jake in The Blues Brothers, the comedian might have made a pretty good rockstar. Either way, attempting to sleep with the wife of a Rolling Stone probably isn\u2019t the best path to musical greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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