This week I thought we could slip back in time and forget about the summer slowly drifting away, and instead focus on some stellar couples from the past. Everything was better in the past, men had manners, women wore restrictive garments, civil rights were non-existent, rubbish could be gleefully thrown on the ground, and legally you could beat a child to within an inch of it’s life. Good times….
Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, and Ed Sullivan squeezing in on the act.
While they were only a couple very briefly, and Darin went on to marry the amazing Sandra Dee, there is something about this Italian-American couple that makes me wish they’d stuck it out; after all Francis later said that breaking up with Darin was the biggest regret of her life.
A video of their smashing Ed Sullivan performance can be found here.
Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday
Sylvie Vartan is cool enough to make up for what appears to be a tasseled snakeskin t-shirt and a mullet. Shame on you Johnny, shame on you.
If you think you would like the look of them more if they were a bit less 70s and a bit more chic, or have ever wondered what French rock-a-billy would sound like then go here.
Bebe Buell and Stiv Bator
I have no idea if these two lasted a kiss, a night, or ten years, but anyone the girl crowned 1974′s Miss November got involved with was a stone cold super fox. Except Todd Rundgren.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
If I could step into this photo now and take Elizabeth Taylor’s place I’d die happy.
Johnny Thunders and Sable Starr
Possibly the most underrated but awesome groupie of all time Sable Starr was Thunders’ main squeeze. However this picture is simply a not so subtle excuse to tell you all about how Sable once dyed her pubes green and floated on her back in a pool trying to coerce people into sleeping with her. It may or may not have worked, that part was never quite clear.
