{"id":287006,"date":"2025-11-15T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287006\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:14:10","slug":"lemonheads-frontman-on-the-women-who-shaped-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287006\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemonheads frontman on the women who shaped his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Dando is best known as the frontman of the Lemonheads<\/a>. Here, the 58-year-old talks about the important women in his life, including his tumultuous first marriage, and how he has found lasting love with a woman he first dated briefly 28 years ago. <\/p>\n

\"Evan<\/p>\n

Evan Dando: \u201cBeing in a band meant
\nthere were always girls around. It didn\u2019t matter what they looked like, I liked all kinds of girls.\u201dCredit: Antonia Teixeira<\/p>\n

My maternal grandmother, Hazel, was born in Sweden and migrated to the USA before she had children. She loved to tan at the beach and would drink beer at home after a day in the sun. She was tough, had a funny side, and was a little crazy, too. She died in 2000.<\/p>\n

My paternal grandmother, Margaret \u201cPeg\u201d Dando, was a talented painter who lived to 104 and died in 2015. She taught drawing and history of art and her brother was a famous painter, Ray G. Ellis. I started painting because of my grandmother and get my artistic side from her. She was a Christian, very conservative in her views, and into eating well and health food before it was a thing.<\/p>\n

My mother, Susan, was a fashion model who appeared in Vogue Italia. She started modelling after she had kids and is an incredible physical specimen \u2013 pretty and athletic, a natural beauty. She never wanted to do cigarette ads though \u2013 a very principled woman.<\/p>\n

Mom started surfing in the 1960s and whenever I wanted to go skiing, surfing or do any sports as a kid, she was the one who took me. When I was 18, we\u2019d walk the street together and people thought we were a couple. She is 86 and still looks great.<\/p>\n

My parents met in their 20s. Mom, who was a few years older, was the hot art teacher at Alfred University my dad, Jeffrey, fell in love with. They separated when I was 10. I wrote a song about them called Confetti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had my share of dalliances\u00a0\u2013 it was fun. Sometimes it was only about sex, and sometimes about the companionship of a woman.<\/p>\n

Mom never really wanted me or my sister, Holly, to go away to summer camp when we were kids. She would take us on adventures herself instead \u2013 I went to Aspen twice with her in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Holly\u2019s three years older than me and came on the road with the Lemonheads and to Glastonbury with her boyfriend. But she grew out of the scene and became a social worker, while I got f—ed up for years. Our relationship was dynamic, then difficult for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Dando is best known as the frontman of the Lemonheads. Here, the 58-year-old talks about the important…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-287006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}