Is she really going out with him? Or indeed, vice versa. Yes, coughs Sarah Boden.
1. Cher and Gene Simmons Cher was the lucky lady on the receiving end of Simmons's famously long tongue in the late Seventies. They existed on -separate planes of understanding: she confessed to puzzlement over his raucous lyrics, and he pulled on snakeskin boots and leathers to accompany her jogging. They were, however, -smitten. Despite this, the KISS singer wasn't prepared to marry. 'It is against human biology,' he blustered. 'Men -produce a billion sperm a day.' Still, he did sing backing vocals on Cher's 'Get Down (Guitar Groupie)' and, given his taste for outrageous stage gear, -probably sparked off her penchant for dressing like a hooker at Mardi Gras.
2. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Elvis's daughter thought hitching up with someone even more famous would allow her to be a 'quiet little wifie'. But the Marigolds lost their appeal. After 20 months, she filed for divorce.
3. Courtney Love and Julian Cope After Love claimed she lost her virginity at 16 to him, Cope paid for an NME ad reading: 'Free Us From Nancy Spungen-Fixated Heroin A-Holes Who Cling To Our Greatest Groups And Suck Out Their Brains.' Tell us what you really think, Julian.
4. Prince and Sheena Easton The 1980s singing sensation, discovered by Esther Rantzen, turned into a proper sauce when she coupled up with the purple provocateur. Her single 'Sugar Walls', written by him, was denounced by 'porn rock' crusader Tipper Gore.
5. Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton Even God may have human failings where his one-time tour collaborator is concerned. The mellifluously damning 'My Favourite Mistake' allegedly concerns the couple's time together. No prizes for guessing then that it didn't work out.
6. Björk and Goldie At the height of their romance, Björk described life with Goldie thus: 'We go to bed at night, and when we wake there's 59 tons of love.' Their six-month engagement ended with him and her ex, Tricky, brawling in a New York club.
7. Lulu and Jason Orange The two collaborated on Take That's 1993 single 'Relight My Fire' - and maybe more besides. In a recent TV documentary, Orange said: 'If Lulu says I gave her one, and she says I was great, then that's fine by me.'
8. John Cooper Clarke and Nico Maybe drug buddies, maybe more: the dour Velvet Underground chanteuse and Salford's rebel wordsmith shacked up in Manchester's less salubrious spots in the Eighties. Either way, they probably didn't take turns to do the dishes.
9. Kylie and Michael Hutchence The gravelly-voiced INXS frontman and rock bad boy claimed that corrupting the bright-eyed 20-year-old pop princess was his hobby. 'He wasn't as bad as everyone thought, and I wasn't as good. We met in the middle,' said Kylie.
10. Liz Fraser and Jeff Buckley Picture the laughs when Cocteau Twin Liz (the Eighties' ethereal poster-girl) and Jeff (the Nineties' ethereal lost boy) hung out. 'There'd be times when I'd think, "I'm just not penetrating this Jeff Buckley boy at all,"' she confessed.
