Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue reveals wife and bandmate Lorraine McIntosh is his biggest inspiration

Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh got married in 1990, and their relationship has been going strong for 35 years.

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00:00It's still the same thing, you know, we just, I just choose someone who inspired me,

00:29still inspires me, I just love the way she thinks about things, she makes me laugh, she

00:34laughs, she makes me laugh all the time, but she's also gorgeous.

00:37It's hard to put into words what you fall in love with someone, but I just think he's

00:41a, he's a, he's a great person, I think he's, he's fascinating, he's talented, he's driven.

00:59And I remember thinking, I want to be in that band, I want to sing that song, so yeah, I

01:04did.

01:05And I was totally inspired by the kind of energy of Ricky as a lead singer and as a

01:12frontman, there was just this kind of like a heat-seeking missile kind of directness

01:18about him, which I think you still, still have.

01:25I think a lot of it's luck to be honest, you know, I do, I think if you find the right

01:38person, then it's going to work, and if you don't find the right person, it's not going

01:43to work.

01:44And, you know, we've had a, we've had a great life, but life can be hard for a lot of people

01:49that can make relationships a lot harder, you know, when, what is it they say, when

01:54poverty comes in through the window, love goes out the door, life can be hard for people,

02:00so we've had, we've had a lot of, a lot of good things happen to us in life, but I do

02:05think that a certain element of it is, is luck and meeting the right person.

02:09And you just kind of know, and you have friends who, we have friends that we're going to,

02:13I was mentioning friends that we're going to see tonight, I think they've been married

02:15for a long, long time, you know, and they're great company and so on, and, you know, other

02:20friends that you think just their relationships didn't work out, it's just, so we're very

02:24grateful, that's really important.