• 31
  • October
    2011

Denver music connoisseurs have likely already heard the news that the cofounders of Sonic Youth, one of the bands that supplied the music to the soundtrack of Generation X, have announced they are going to divorce after 27 years of marriage.

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore cofounded the band, which was one of the foremost rock outfits of the 1990s, in 1981. For many years, people held them up as an ideal of a couple who could make a personal relationship thrive even when they worked together professionally and artistically.

Gordon and Moore have not announced the reason behind their divorce. They have a 17-year-old daughter named Coco together. The band is due to go on a previously scheduled tour of South America shortly, but plans after that are "uncertain," according to a spokeswoman for Sonic Youth's record label.

Their divorce goes to show that relationships can be good for a long period of time and then slowly unravel. It does not mean that either partner failed or that things were bad all along; it only means that feelings between the two changed over time.

If Gordon and Moore choose to continue with Sonic Youth, it will be an example of how some divorced couples continue to work together on profitable businesses they established together even after they separate. Many separating couples seek the advice of lawyers regarding businesses when they divorce. Attorneys can listen to what the couple wants to have happen -- keep the business going or split it up -0- and can come up with ways to achieve that end.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, "Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth Announce Split," Oct. 15, 2011