There are rules about rock wives. Pre-fame ones tend to get left behind around the third album. New ones are inevitably younger. An unfeasibly large percentage are models. So far none are doctors or civil engineers. Many end up as their husbands' managers. Quite a lot have wacky interests and/or careers at the touchier-feelier end of the economy. Most are probably brighter than their husbands and their steely gaze indicates they can't understand why he gets all the attention. Here's our ten notables.

Candice Night (pictured, far right) is marrying Ritchie Blackmore in October 2008. They've been engaged for just fourteen years. The big day has probably been delayed while Ritchie casts a quizzical eye over Candice's poetry. Candice sings in his group Blackmore's Night but is very comfy centre stage. Here she is as Princess Amora, the warrior princess who features heavily in the fantasy game Magiquest.

Lauren Monroe is married to Rick Allen of Def Leppard. She is "the creator of the Advanced Energy Medicine Certification Program at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy and is also the Co-founder of The Raven Drum Foundation where she teaches and facilitates healing drum and empowerment circles in the U.S. and abroad." And she's made a record. "Working on the sessions was a collective heart explosion," she says. Let's listen.

Jennifer Sklias Gahan is the American third wife of Basildon boy David Gahan of Depeche Mode. What the gorgeous young model and the middle aged rock millionaire saw in each other we can only guess at but she was certainly the first Mrs Gahan to feature in one of their videos. However, never let it be said that she doesn't earn her keep. Here she is demonstrating the mystic healing properties of a rubber ball covered in oil.

Only in the world of the Rock Wife could a humble radio traffic reporter and aerobics instructor like Shemane Deziel (below right, with slaughtered foe) end up as the co-author of a book called Kill It and Grill It. All you have to do is marry Ted Nugent. Then before you know it you're campaigning against gun control and taking a crossbow to the wildlife of Africa. Pull!

Victoria Mary Clarke combines her role as Shane Macgowan's fiancee (they're saving up to get married this year) with a new career as a channeler of angels. She's written a book on the subject ("It's f***ing brilliant" says her top showbiz chum Kate Moss) and runs workshops at which she promises to get in touch with angels on behalf of members of the public for twenty pounds. This is quite cheap for contact with celestial beings. Here she is on Irish TV testing the patience of her interviewers, a pair of Muppets.

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