Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross says spouse and bandmate Lorraine McIntosh is his greatest inspiration in life.
Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh have been married since 1990
The smitten couple went from being mates and members of the Scottish pop/rock group within the ’80s, to having one of many happiest and healthiest marriages in music after they tied the knot in Could 1990.
The 67-year-old lead frontman – who wrote the group’s smash hit singles, together with ‘Actual Gone Child’ and ‘Fergus Sings the Blues’ – nonetheless will get Lorraine to inexperienced gentle tracks he has penned, and if she doesn’t like them, they get scrapped.
When requested what it was about Lorraine that he fell in love with, Ricky advised ContactMusic.com: “It’s nonetheless the identical factor – she was somebody who impressed me and nonetheless conjures up me, I simply love the best way she thinks about issues, she makes me giggle on a regular basis – however she’s additionally beautiful!”
Requested what her attraction to her different half was, the band’s co-vocalist added: “It’s exhausting to place into phrases what you fall in love with about somebody, however I simply assume he is an incredible individual.
“I believe he is fascinating, he is gifted, he is pushed.”
Earlier than becoming a member of the band in 1987, Lorraine watched Ricky and Deacon Blue’s unique members, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal, and the late Graeme Kelling – who died in 2004 from most cancers aged 47 – carry out ‘Dignity’ within the Queen Margaret Union on the College of Glasgow, Scotland, and she or he admitted her husband’s power left her feeling “completely impressed”.
The 60-year-old singer recalled: “I bear in mind considering, I wish to be in that band. I wish to sing that track, and I used to be completely impressed by the type of power of Ricky as a lead singer and as a frontman.
“He simply had this heat-seeking missile type of directness about him, which I believe you continue to have.”
The loved-up couple made their declaration of affection for one another greater than three many years in the past, and their marriage has been going robust ever since.
When requested what the key is to a protracted and wholesome relationship, Ricky and Lorraine – who’ve 4 youngsters collectively – assume it’s all the way down to pure luck to search out the correct individual.
Lorraine mentioned: “I believe a variety of it’s luck, to be trustworthy.
“I believe should you discover the correct individual, then it may work, and should you do not discover the correct individual, it isn’t going to work.
“And, you realize, we have had an incredible life, however life will be exhausting for lots of people.
“That may make relationships rather a lot tougher. You recognize, when poverty is available in by means of the window, love goes out the door; life will be exhausting for individuals.
“We have had a variety of good issues occur to us in life, however I do assume {that a} sure ingredient of it’s luck in the correct individual.”
Ricky agreed: “You simply type of know [if someone is right for you], and you’ve got mates who’ve been married for a protracted, very long time, they usually’re nice firm and so forth. And different mates that you simply assume the relationships did not work out.
“So, we’re very grateful.”
Deacon Blue – which now options newcomers Gregor Philp and Lewis Gordon – are celebrating 40 years of the band in 2025 by releasing their extremely anticipated eleventh studio album ‘The Nice Western Highway’, in addition to going out on two excursions.
The group launch ‘The Nice Western Highway’ on Friday, March 21 2025.
Deacon Blue 2025 tour dates:
Sunday, March 30 – Edinburgh Usher Corridor
Monday, March 31 – Bradford St George’s Corridor
Wednesday, April 2 – Bristol Beacon Theatre
Thursday, April 3 – Cambridge Corn Change
Friday, April 4 – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Enviornment Tour:
Friday, September 19 – Liverpool M+S Financial institution Enviornment
Saturday, September 20 – Brighton Centre
Monday, September 22 – Birmingham Utilita Enviornment
Tuesday, September 23 – Leeds FirstDirect Enviornment
Thursday, September 25 – Bournemouth Worldwide Centre
Friday, September 26 – Cardiff Utilita Enviornment
Sunday, September 28 – Nottingham Motorpoint Enviornment
Monday, September 29 – Sheffield Utilita Enviornment
Wednesday, October 1 – Manchester AO Enviornment
Friday, October 3 – London Wembley OVO Enviornment
Sunday, October 5 – Hull Connexin Reside
Monday, October 6 – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Utilita Enviornment
Wednesday, October 8 – Dublin 3Arena
Friday, October 10 – Glasgow Hydro
Saturday, October 11 – Glasgow Hydro
