Music – When the couple is a duo

Real and ‘virtual’ married partners who made pop music history.

It all started with Orpheus and Euridyce, the Greek myth of love, death and music that has inspired western melodrama since it made singing believable on stage.

Since then duets between singing lovers have moved and intrigued audiences, who see them as a meeting of real life and fiction. Five famous couples of modern day popular music are described below.

Johnny and June Cash

“We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout”. “If I were a carpenter and you were a Lady/ Would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?”. These are the first verses of Jackson and If I were a carpenter, two of the most famous songs by the couple that ‘invented’ all the popular music love duos.

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