Jo Jo Laine & Denny Laine

Denny Laine and Jo Jo Laine
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Jo Jo Laine and Denny Laine were married for 1 year. They dated for 6 years after getting together in 1972 and married on 5th Nov 1978. 1 year later they divorced in 1980.

They had 2 children, Laine (50) and Heidi Jo (49).

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American Model Jo Jo Laine was born Joanne LaPatrie on 13th July, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and passed away on 29th Oct 2006 St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, England aged 54. She is most remembered for One of the ultimate famous rock groupies. Her zodiac sign is Cancer.

British Songwriter Denny Laine was born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines on 29th October, 1944 in Tyseley, Birmingham and passed away on 5th Dec 2023 aged 79. He is most remembered for The Moody Blues, Wings. His zodiac sign is Scorpio.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1972 - 5th Nov 1978 6 years, 10 months
Married5th Nov 1978 - 1980 1 year, 1 month
Total 1972 - 1980 8 years


"When she was 20, she arrived in England determined to marry Paul McCartney - she had a big crush on him," says her daughter Heidi. She met Denny Laine backstage at a gig in 1972, "but she told me that the moment she met my dad, after a Wings concert, she knew they were soulmates", and within two days they were an item. “It was the ultimate groupie’s dream,” Jo Jo recalled.
Her daughter explains. "She fell in love with him, even though he was just a waged member of the band with little money. My brother Laine was born within a year of them getting together and I followed 11 months later.They were the happiest times. My earliest memories are of my eldest brother and I being surrounded by love and laughter. Even when finances were tight, she would find enough to see that we never wanted for anything. To the rest of the world she might have been the ultimate rock chick, but to us she was just the best mum. She was always there for us. No matter what was happening in her life, we always came first. We were very close".
"We lived on a houseboat before Dad started making lots of money. Mum was always in the kitchen cooking. She liked us to sit down to meals together, even if Dad was away on tour." Heidi recalls. "It was a fun house and she was always smiling. She used to dress us up in colourful, fancy-dress costumes and we would role-play."
Denny co-wrote the hit Mull Of Kintyre with McCartney in 1977, and his new-found wealth enabled the family to buy Yew Corner in Middlesex, a house which had been A.A. Milne's inspiration for Pooh Corner in his Winnie the Pooh books.
Yew Corner became legendary for the Laines' wild parties throughout the Seventies. But Heidi recalls: "We were always kept away from that sort of world. Mum tried to create a stable home and sheltered us from all that."
In 1978 Jo Jo Laine’s brother Thaddeus, a heavy drug-user and schizophrenic, shot their father at the home they shared in Florida after a row about his drug taking. Her father survived, but remained paralysed for more than a year before dying in 1980.
The tragedy put a strain on Jo Jo Laine’s marriage: Denny began having an affair with her best friend, and Jo Jo took to drink and antidepressants, and filed for divorce, which was effective in 1980.

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Relationship Timeline

1980 - Divorce

1980 - Breakup

5th November, 1978 - Marriage

1974 - Child

1973 - Child

1972 - Dating

1972 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Jo Jo Laine
Denny Laine
Jo Jo Laine
Denny Laine
Age (at start of relationship)
19
27
Zodiac
Cancer
Scorpio
Occupation
Model
Songwriter
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Brown - Dark
Eye Color
Brown - Dark
Brown - Dark
Nationality
American
British
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Children

NameGenderBornAge
LaineMale197351 years old
Heidi JoFemale197450 years old

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