The Dark Side Of The Flaming Lips

June, 2010

His life sounds like the pitch for a Showtime series: A tattooed Mormon of 42, Gary Allan has had three wives (not simultaneously—he's not that kind of Mor­mon), was singing with his dad in California honky-tonks before puberty, served in the Army and moved to Nashville when a wealthy couple wrote hima no-strings check for $12,000 after hearing a CD accidentally left in the glove box of a truckthey'd bought. His second wife was a Versace model. His third, who was neverproperly treated for depres...