Sandra Elsdon-Vigon looks back
 

I apologize if this has been posted here before, but I didn't spot anything. I came upon this interesting 2014 interview with Sandra Elsdon-Vigon, who was Peter Green's girlfriend during his time in Fleetwood Mac (and as early as his Bluesbreakers days). What I didn't know before was that Peter was not the only member of the band she was involved with over the years.

Life as the Girlfriend of Fleetwood Mac

Also found this cool photo that I'd never seen before, of Sandra with Peter and John - looks like from sometime in 1967.

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t5...35944449_n.jpg

(the photo is from this webpage: http://www.imgrum.net/media/12364228...896_3031283783).

thanxalot for this, sharksfan! sandra's "involvements" with other musicians in and out of the mac are also news to me - i wonder if these have ever been a topic one way or another here on the ledge.

as for the nice pic - i remember having run across it before somehow, but where . . . was it in "man of the world - the peter green story"?

Interesting read, thanks. I hadn't realized she was involved with the others for so long. I don't think I've ever seen the photo before and I have the Man Of The World DVD.

. . . alright, then it must've been somewhere else, but i've definitely seen it before. i remember thinkin' about both peter and sandra obviously taking to horizontally-striped outfits . . . and subsequently danny, too.

Thats really interesting.
Would have started 1974 then, right?
Then, they were 'officially' a couple for a year during the recording of Rumours.
So when Chris was knocking around with Curry Grant, John was with Sandra.

Thanks for this.

didn't Sandra Elsdon play the recorder on Oh Well?

That is a great photo. So young. And amused. Michele

I think so, yes. An old thread mentions that & Sandra in the Man of the World DVD (which I need to re watch).

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=37015

Thank for the new to me photo & details.

Interesting info! I had no idea she became intimate with John around 1976ish. The irony of her moving in with Christine later is delicious, and it tells us a lot about Christine: she appears to value friendship more than petty jealousy.

Re: the photo. I first saw it years ago in a 1978 book on the band called Rumors-n-Facts. It's been floating around for years. Only now I know the banckstory to the people in it. Cool.

That is way cool, thanks for sharing it!

if you mean the book by roy carr and steve clarke - i have that: 1978 . . . but the pic's not in there. :-( maybe there are different editions . . . ?

i've just been watching the "man of the world" dvd again after some time . . . and guess what i saw? go to chapter 3 and at 28'24" - they're talkin' about "black magic woman" and its lyrical origin being sandra, and there's the pic! its quality displayed in the film ain't specificly great . . . anyway. :sorry: ;)

It could be the other one Steve Clarke did a few years later, in 1985. I'll check.

Aha! Found it. It's not in either of the Steve Clarke books but it is on page 10 of Mick Fleetwood's MY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN FLEETWOOD MAC. I knew I'd seen it before.

interestingly the art direction/design for the Rumours and Tusk albums was done by a studio called Vigon Nahas Vigon, headed by Jay Vigon. Any relation?

Black Magic Woman, with P.G. :)


https://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=...act=mrc&uact=8

Thanks for the photo link, dalko! :thumbsup: I've never seen that one before.

You're welcome :)

The question is: is she also the woman from "Fool No More"?

"I gave you all my money
I work as hard as I can
I came home early one morning
I found you with another man

So good-bye baby
you don't even care
Yes, I had a love so strong for you
but you treat me so unfair"

Can be ...

The woman sitting beside Green in the sofa is not Sandra Elsdon. Her name is Maria.

. . . i already assumed that this isn't sandra - thanks dansven!
but who is maria? also i can't get the time frame, really: peter with full beard and slightly cropped hair - was he still with the mac then or was it after him leaving?
:confused:

Maria was a girlfriend at the time. This was after Fleetwood Mac. 1971 I guess. You can see him with short hair promoting the Heavy Heart single. :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFEi2bIoy0

Thanks for the info, dansven! I was also thinking the photo looked like it was after Peter left Fleetwood Mac.

what sharky said goes for me just the same - only thing is i wasn't really SURE about the time the pic was taken. thanxalot!
:thumbsup:

Thanks for the information. :)

So, not the "Black Magic Woman" just another picture of PG.

I think perhaps this woman is magical too. ;)

she certainly had the looks . . . !
;)

That photo looks to be either during Peter & John's days together with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers or very early in Fleetwood Mac. (my 2 cents) Obviously, I was commenting on the wrong photo.

Never mind. :)