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Originally Posted by Villavic
I always understood from Mick's book, that Gypsy was about the late Robin Anderson, her best friend who died from leukemia. I didn't get it, but I was supposed it was about the good old days they lived
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On this tour, Stevie has been recalling what she actually wrote the song about - which apparently was the Fritz era in San Francisco, where she reveals she lived in a house in Los Gatos with Lindsey in 1969. After Robin died, she made several parallels about the song and her friend, however it was the single out at the time of Robin's death and they were performing it onstage that fall during the Mirage tour. Gypsy was actually written in the Tusk era, '79-ish, as far as we know. So, the song itself was not inspired or written about Robin at all.