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==Personal life== During the early years of Henry Cow, Frith was married to Liza White, a teacher in Cambridge. They wed in 1970,{{sfn|Piekut|2019|p=47}} but divorced in 1974 after Frith's commitment to the band left little private life for the couple.{{sfn|Piekut|2019|pp=146β147}} In the early- to mid-1980s, after Henry Cow had split up and Frith had moved to New York City, he was married to Tina Curran, a musician and artist. She played bass guitar on several tracks on Frith's albums at the time, and did the photography and artwork for a number of his albums during that period.<ref name=Breznikar>{{Cite web|last=Breznikar|first=Klemen|author-link=Klemen Breznikar |date=6 January 2012|title=Fred Frith interview about Henry Cow & beyond|url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/01/fred-frith-interview-about-henry-cow.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202033255/http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/01/fred-frith-interview-about-henry-cow.html|archive-date=2 February 2018|access-date=25 December 2020|website=[[It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine]]|language=en-US}}</ref> In the early 1990s Frith married German photographer and performance artist, Heike Liss. She has done the artwork for many of Frith's albums, and has performed with him on several occasions. They lived in Germany in the mid-1990s, then moved to California where Frith taught at Mills College until his retirement in 2018.<ref name=Kaliss>{{cite web |last=Kaliss |first=Jeff |url=https://www.sfcv.org/events-calendar/artist-spotlight/fred-frith-premieres-new-work-for-sf-girls-chorus |title=Fred Frith Premieres New Work for S.F. Girls Chorus |website=San Francisco Classical Voice |date=21 February 2019 |access-date=12 November 2019}}</ref><ref name=Frith>{{cite web |last=Frith |first=Fred |url=http://www.fredfrith.com/this-and-that/ |title=This and That |website=fredfrith.com |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221170856/http://www.fredfrith.com/this-and-that/ |archive-date=21 December 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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