Carolyne Anne Christie (born 27 December 1946
) is a member of the British
aristocracy
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At the time of the word's ...
, known for having been married to
Rock Scully
Rock Robert Scully (August 1, 1941 – December 16, 2014) was one of the managers of the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1965 to 1985.
Living in Haight-Ashbury as a graduate student prior to the Summer of Love, Scully first saw the Grateful Dead ...
, manager of the
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, a ...
, and later to
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-so ...
of
Pink Floyd
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, who wrote songs about her. Her son
Harry Waters is also a successful musician.
Family
Christie's parents were Hector Lorenzo Christie and Lady Jean Agatha Dundas.
Her mother's father was
Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland and so she is niece to
Lawrence Aldred Mervyn Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland,
and a cousin to both
Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland
Lawrence Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland, (born 28 December 1937), less formally known as Mark Zetland, is a British peer, known before 1989 as Earl of Ronaldshay.
Education and career
He was educated at Harrow School and Christ's College, ...
and
Lord David Dundas
Lord David Paul Nicholas Dundas (born 2 June 1945) is an English musician and actor, best known for his chart success in the pop genre during the 1970s as well as his later career in film and television scores.
Biography
Dundas was born in Ox ...
. She has a brother,
Willie Christie.
Through Harry, she has grandchildren.
Early marriages
Christie married John Julian Reynolds in 1966;
however they divorced in 1970.
She married Rock Scully in 1974, but they separated and divorced the following year. Scully's brother has subsequently expressed doubts about the legality of the union, which Scully misrepresented to his
common-law wife
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as a
green card marriage
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Definitions of sham marriage vary by ...
.
Sources gave different dates for these divorces.
Roger Waters
After her divorce from Scully, Christie married Roger Waters, the bass player of the English rock band Pink Floyd;
this was his second marriage.
Their wedding cake was a gift from her friend,
Sarah Ferguson, later Duchess of York.
They had two children, Harry (born 16 November 1976
), a keyboard player in his father's band as well as other bands,
and India Rose (born 25 April 1978
), a model,
before divorcing in 1992.
The two-part song "
Pigs on the Wing
"Pigs on the Wing" is a two-part song by English rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album ''Animals'', opening and closing the album. According to various interviews, it was written by Roger Waters as a declaration of love to his new ...
" on Pink Floyd's ''
Animals
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'' album is a love song from Waters for Christie,
and a hidden message in the song "
Empty Spaces
"Empty Spaces" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, featured as the eighth track on their 1979 rock opera ''The Wall''. It contains a backmasked message.
Composition
The song is in the key of E minor, and is two minutes, e ...
", on the follow-up album ''
The Wall
''The Wall'' is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/ CBS Records. It is a rock opera that explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imp ...
'', refers to her.
It was Christie's suggestion that
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan Ezrin (born March 25, 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Andrea Bocelli and Phish. As of 2010, Ezrin's car ...
be asked to produce the latter album.
Waters employed Christie's brother Willie to take photographs for the cover of his last album with Pink Floyd, ''
The Final Cut'',
and to direct the
accompanying short film.
References
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Living people
1946 births
Roger Waters