Love songs about John
So I know she wrote Don't Stop to John during their divorce and Songbird and You Make Loving Fun are about the lighting director. But do we know if any of the vast array of 'I love you' songs Christine has written were about being in love with John? Very curious. Also, I wish there were some pictures from their wedding. I bet Christine makes a lovely bride.
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Spare Me a Little was, at least according to Mick. Early versions of this song date back to 1970, when the couple were experiencing marital bliss.
By 1973, the Mcvies were facing significant personal troubles, so I’m suspecting Dissatisfied, Believe Me, and Why are autobiographical. I also suspect that Remember Me and Just Crazy Love are at least inspired by her affair with Martin Birch. By 1974, Birch returned to his wife and the Mcvies were trying to give it another go. Maybe Prove Your Love was about this stage of their lives. The original lyrics to Brown Eyes (Yesterday’s Tears) are clearly about John. But the rewrite appears to be about Dennis Wilson. |
Spare Me a Little and Why stand out as the most obvious examples but Warm Ways maybe also about "giving it another go" before the S&*t hit the fan in '76. Yesterday's Tears is just amazing- too bad they didn't keep that version and I agree it's about John. Most other stuff is about moving on I think.
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I may be wrong, but I think Christine has said in an interview that, while some of her songs are autobiographical, many are not and are instead written about various other people or friends of hers. I can't remember if it was Sugar Daddy or Little Lies that this was referring to.
That being said, sooooo many songs sound like they are. Confirmed: Mick (Oh Daddy), John (Believe Me, Why, Spare Me a Little, Songbird, Don't Stop), Lindsey (Over My Head), herself (Homeward Bound), Curry Grant (You Make Loving Fun) I would wager that her Tango songs are about Eddy Quintella and her Tusk and Mirage songs are about Dennis Wilson. |
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"Over My Head" is about Lindsey? When did she say that? |
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Perhaps in 2014 she was confusing songs.
Why would someone welcome a new member to the band by writing a love song about him while he is in a relationship with another of your new band members? It makes so sense. |
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Carol Ann wrote in her book that Songbird was also about Curry Grant. I know some people consider her book sketchy but it got a lot of things right so I don't see why it should be ignored.:shrug:
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I don’t think OMH or Songbird are necessarily about one person.
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the written earlier part may have been the music or the chords, and maybe she added lyrics later? |
The lyrics to "Over my head" definately sounds like they´re about John. That´s the only thing that makes sense to me. Sounds really weird to think they would be about Lindsey, that´s all...:shrug:
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Imagining Lindsey and her, but hey that’s over my head.... |
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Yes she did say that—and I don’t believe her.
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As has been mentioned Over My Head was supposedly written not long after the Heroes... tour. She probably didn't know Lindsey when it was initially roughed out or if she did then it was just after LB+SN joined the band.
'But every day you hurt my pride' That doesn't sound like it would be about somebody you've only known for a short time. It does sound like its about a (sometimes) abusive, alcoholic spouse towards the end of a relationship. 'Your mood is like a circus wheel, you're changing all the time. Sometimes I cant help but feel, that I'm wasting all of my time'. That also sounds like its directed towards a (sometimes) abusive, alcoholic spouse towards the end of a relationship. Christine might have alluded to the song being written about Lindsey.... but it just wasn't. Either she was genuinely confusing the song with another song (and I don't doubt she could have written something else about him later on) or she's just flat out getting senile. |
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Didn't she say this right before her album release with LB? It could have been a ploy to create a tension or narrative that sparked interest. Either way, I ain't buying it. The song is wonderful as a plainspoken love song. The subtext she tried to create for it decades later is lame. But not in the league of saying Landslide was written for Katrina. Or Hillary's election. |
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That was my first reaction but apparently it was quoted from an interview in 2014 so that's a bit before Buckingham McVie. |
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She does talk about how enamored she was w/ Lindsey when she met him. I believe her premise that it was loosely based around him. She's always been one to change words to make a song flow better rather than have lyrics to match the exact premise she started writing about. Her songs morph. |
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I’m still not buying the song is really inspred by Lindsey. |
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