When Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora visited his old friend Alice Cooper on
tour in Hawaii in 2013, he met Australian musician Orianthi Panagaris, who had
played with Michael Jackson, Carrie Underwood and Prince before joining Cooper's
band, and the pair soon formed a natural musical partnership and, later, a
romantic partnership too, turning themselves into a fearsome, guitar-duelling,
hard-rocking, power couple.
Sambora had recently left Bon Jovi after 30 years, while Orianthi had quit
school at 15 and worked her way from playing bars in Adelaide to jamming with
Santana,...