Bryan Ferry Marrying His Son’s Ex-Girlfriend Is Weird–But Not As Weird As This

I’ve been a Roxy Music fan for…well, forever, really.  Bryan Ferry has also struck me as the epitome of cool, even when he’s doing those H&M commercials.  

And I kinda admire his ladykiller reputation.  He does have an eye for women.  I mean, some of those Roxy Music album covers were good enough when my buddies chickened out from boosting copies of Penthouse from the drug store.  But this is a little weird.

Bryan, who is 66, has just married his 29 year-old girlfriend.  That’s fine–good on you, Bryan–except for the fact that Amanda Shepherd used to be his son’s girlfriend.  Somehow that just doesn’t feel right.

But it’s not the weirdest relationship father-son-girlfriend arrangement I’ve ever heard of. Far, far from it.

In 1989, Bill Wyman, then 53 and still playing bass for the Rolling Stones, married his 18 year-old girlfriend Mandy Smith after they had been dating for six years. She confessed many years later to getting sexual with Bill at age 14.

While you’re working out whether someone should have been charged with statutory rape and hounded off the planet like Jerry Lee Lewis, consider also that at the same time Bill’s son Stephen struck up a very serious relationship with Mandy’s mother.

I don’t think the relationship ever consumated in marriage, but for the sake of argument, let’s say it had.  Try this thought experiment.  Bill and Mandy become husband and wife.  What sort of famiial labels would everyone have had Stephen married Mandy’s mom?

Let’s see…Bill would become the step-son of his own son while Mandy would be both his step-mom and his step-sister.  Mandy’s mom would be Bill’s daughter in-law and mother-in-law.  That would make Stephen…

Forget it.  I already have a headache.  If you care to, please sketch out all the relationships in the comments section.