According to Mick's book:
...Christine McVie's new live-in boyfriend, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. I had known Dennis from years of gigging with his band and had introduced him to Chris while we were making Tusk. Within a few days after their meeting, Chris and Dennis fell wildly for each other. Our lighting director, Curry Grant, moved out of Chris's hillside recreation of an English country house, and Dennis moved in. It was December 1978, and for the next two years as long as that tempestuous relationship lasted there was never a dull moment, Dennis being the complete wildman so accurately depicted by his enduring legend.
.... (Mirage)...Chris's songs, especially "Hold Me," reflected her bittersweet reflections on her relationship with Dennis Wilson, which had almost resulted in marriage but had ended instead the previous December, when Dennis had moved out of Chris's house and her life. Christine had loved Dennis with all her heart (we all did), and he was a fascinating if exhausting episode in her life. I felt some responsibility, because I had introduced them. Dennis was -an utter loon, and Chris was like my sister. I watched in trepidation as Chris almost went mad trying to keep up with Dennis, who was already like a man with twenty thyroid glands, not counting the gargantuan amounts of coke and booze and pills he was always shoving into himself. I was very torn, because Dennis was a friend, and I'd see him ****ing up and chasing skirts and didn't know whether it was my role to say anything to Chris. In the end I didn't have to. She got tired of spending a fortune and her health on maintaining Dennis on the road to his eventual destiny. In any case, "Hold Me" was a great song, and became the first hit single of the new album.
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