Holly Vincent was only 19 when Mark was nearly 30

[WaterofLove]

According to this she is born in 1959 (and their relationship was in 1978) http://www.in.com/holly-beth-vincent/biography-328674.html

Whenever watching the version of Romeo and Juliet where MK almost cries I get the feeling that Holly Vincent was the love of his life. I was quite surprised when I found out her age, because I couldn't imagine that academic and well-read Mark would find a teenage girl interesting enough to have a serious relationship with her.

[Ingo]

Their relationship was in 1979, not in 1978 so she was rather 20

[peterromer]

10 years in difference in a relationship is nothing. 

[Throttle]

I couldn't imagine that academic and well-read Mark would find a teenage girl interesting enough to have a serious relationship with her.

Concerning her teenage years, please don't forget that ethical standarts and manners are apt to change with the times.
By way of example suffice it to recall Brooke Shields starring in the film The Blue Lagoon (1980), she was 15 years old at that time.
Now it seems to be unthinkable, however back then hardly anybody was embarrassed in fact.

In addition, I don't think, they used to have a serious relationship in every sense of the word.
Most likely, he was obsessed by desires, while she behaved under a principle: 'treat them mean, keep them keen'.

[Ingo]

A girl with a Schecter Dream Machine might appear very s*xy to some of us guitar geeks
[this forum seems to have an auto filter that changes 's*xy' to 'spammy' when I write it properly!?]

[Lis]

I wouldn't call a young woman a "teenage girl". 
...By that age, she had already moved out from home and had started her career.

[Vesper]

Whenever watching the version of Romeo and Juliet where MK almost cries I get the feeling that Holly Vincent was the love of his life.

What version do you mean?

[Marijo58]

I would say that MK is always moved when he sings R&J mainly because he's very  nostalgic. It can be as well because it reminds him something painful that we do not know about. I don't know very much about his love affair with Holly only that he was depressive when she left which is quite normal!!!

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[superval99]

Whenever watching the version of Romeo and Juliet where MK almost cries I get the feeling that Holly Vincent was the love of his life.

Did you mean "Where Do You Think You're Going"?     

[zuzka]

Whenever watching the version of Romeo and Juliet where MK almost cries I get the feeling that Holly Vincent was the love of his life.

What version do you mean?

i think it´s a version from ´Night in London´dvd..MK has such a sad eyes during performance of this song

[ingridswing]

I couldn't imagine that academic and well-read Mark would find a teenage girl interesting enough to have a serious relationship with her.

Concerning her teenage years, please don't forget that ethical standarts and manners are apt to change with the times.
By way of example suffice it to recall Brooke Shields starring in the film The Blue Lagoon (1980), she was 15 years old at that time.
Now it seems to be unthinkable, however back then hardly anybody was embarrassed in fact.

In addition, I don't think, they used to have a serious relationship in every sense of the word.
Most likely, he was obsessed by desires, while she behaved under a principle: 'treat them mean, keep them keen'.

It's not a big difference of age. She was a young adult back then and as Lis said moved out from her home and started her career.

[Ingo]

Here is clip showing Holly Vincent on stage, seems to be from 1981, about two years after their relationship.
 


On a side note, I think it was her who made Mark turn to Schecters some months later, when he felt he needed a new guitar for the bigger stages and tours.
In an interview from late 1979 he said that his girlfriend has a Schecter Strat that is much better than his Fender, and that he should get a better guitar, too.

In the video - and in most pictures I found in the web - she plays this nice Schecter with the flamed body, but with a Fender neck. No idea when the neck was exchanged, or what neck it had when Mark played it.

[dustyvalentino]

Christ, the way some people are talking you would think it was Gary Glitter, Bill Wyman or Jimmy Page we are talking about. I knew what I was doing when I was 19... in fact, when I was 20 I went out with a girl who was 29 for quite a while, and I don't feel like I was exploited!

[Hoops McCann]

I guess it was just that the time was wrong.


(Couldn't resist.  )

[Lis]

I guess it was just that the time was wrong.


(Couldn't resist.  )

Agreed, Dan.  I think this really sums it up.