Hippy rocker Graham Nash marries lover half his age
ROCK star Graham Nash boasted his sex life was ‘insane’ after dumping his wife of 38 years and mother of his three children for a woman almost half his age.
Now the 77-year-old lothario has been tamed once more and tied the knot with his much younger lover.
Nash, who had global success with pop groups The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, walked out on wife Susan Sennett and their family home in Hawaii in 2016 for a new life in New York City with artist Amy Grantham, now 40.
The singer wed Grantham in two ceremonies in Scotland and Woodstock, the site in New York state of the famous hippy festival. ‘Amy is from Tallahassee in Florida, but she’s loved Scotland for about the last 15 years and she’s gone there every year,’ he tells me.
‘She introduced me to the Scottish Highlands which I’m ashamed to say I’d never been to, and it is the most beautiful country in the world.’
In fitting with his alternative lifestyle, the couple married in a pagan ‘handfasting’ ritual in Scotland.
‘We had a special ceremony in the Highlands and then a couple of weeks later we got married legally because the handfasting — which has been going on for a thousand years in Scotland — is not a legal wedding.
‘Romantic? Absolutely. Legal? Not. So to be able to protect Amy from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, we decided we’d get legally married in a very small ceremony in Woodstock.’
Last year, Nash admitted that his three children by Sennett were very upset that he had left their mother for a woman of the same age as them.
Born in Blackpool, Nash was married to his first wife Rose Eccles from 1964 until 1966 and went on to date Joni Mitchell.
But his rock star lifestyle took its toll. ‘When you’re a musician on the road, it is very difficult to maintain any normal life.’
Asked if he’s confident his new marriage will last, Nash, who is touring the UK in July and August, says: ‘Yes. How long is the rest of my life? I’d like to make it to 100 and hopefully still be singing.’