Andrew Ridgeley revealed Stevie was refused entry to a Wham! concert

[Villavic]

Beyond commenting about this episode, I just laughed about Stevie's look.

https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/...nicks-concert/

[bombaysaffires]

I think we can interpret his comment that Stevie was "tired and emotional" about it as under the influence of god knows what.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Beyond commenting about this episode, I just laughed about Stevie's look.

https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/...nicks-concert/

She looks like a killer clown from outer space.

[bombaysaffires]

this was the era where you never saw her out without someone holding her hand or, worse, holding her upright.... often two people one on either side of her.

[David]

Stevie’s “Jose Eber” period — being seen around town with a trashy West LA hairdresser-to-the-stars. Some people might say that her public shenanigans helped keep Fleetwood Mac’s name in the limelight, whereas others might think her Tinseltown lifestyle strewed plastic glitter over the band’s increasingly precarious integrity. Stevie’s high-profile schmoozing became more and more indistinguishable from parody right about the time that her music was losing the forcefulness and passion it had in the seventies. I think she was losing sight of many serious things and making embarrassing decisions.

[Japhry]

is she wearing a pomeranian on her head here??

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Japhry

is she wearing a pomeranian on her head here??

Yes, but that was the style for the time. She was far from the only one. Pomeranians became extinct.

I have to say when I look at all those identical men with the hair and the mustaches, Ken, Lindsey, Richard, I much prefer the wild, distinctive look of the eighties to the generic hippie look of the seventies.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by David

Stevie’s “Jose Eber” period — being seen around town with a trashy West LA hairdresser-to-the-stars. Some people might say that her public shenanigans helped keep Fleetwood Mac’s name in the limelight, whereas others might think her Tinseltown lifestyle strewed plastic glitter over the band’s increasingly precarious integrity. Stevie’s high-profile schmoozing became more and more indistinguishable from parody right about the time that her music was losing the forcefulness and passion it had in the seventies. I think she was losing sight of many serious things and making embarrassing decisions.

She pal-ed around with Liz Taylor during this time as well.

Andy Summers writes in his memoir that she showed up at a Police show and stood offstage watching the whole time. He seems to imply they hooked up afterwards.

I loved how during this period where she was an absolute fixture in all the famous LA clubs, she would go out of her way to spin yarns to the complete opposite. She once gave an interview bemoaning how she "just couldn't" go out clubbing etc with her friends because of the whole double standard thing, that if they went out they would be characterized as, her words, "a group of loose, roaming women". When that's exactly what they were

She's clever, that girl. Pre-bias the fans so if they hear any wild stories they'll be disinclined to believe them. "Not Stevie, she's home at night curled up with her hot water bottle and her poems".

[On Ice]

What an awful period in Stevie's life and painfully obvious that it was a foreshadow of things to come. This is the level of self-parody and "baby Jane Hudson". Whomever told her this look was cool appeared to have an agenda to make her look bad.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by David

Stevie’s “Jose Eber” period — being seen around town with a trashy West LA hairdresser-to-the-stars. Some people might say that her public shenanigans helped keep Fleetwood Mac’s name in the limelight, whereas others might think her Tinseltown lifestyle strewed plastic glitter over the band’s increasingly precarious integrity. Stevie’s high-profile schmoozing became more and more indistinguishable from parody right about the time that her music was losing the forcefulness and passion it had in the seventies. I think she was losing sight of many serious things and making embarrassing decisions.

Lol and continues to do so some 30 years later!

[The Catdancer]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

this was the era where you never saw her out without someone holding her hand or, worse, holding her upright.... often two people one on either side of her.

True. I saw her entering a concert hall (I had a backstage pass) back in '89 and 2 were holding her up, Glenn Parish up front and Rebecca Alvarez behind her. She could hardly walk. It was a very sad situation.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by The Catdancer

True. I saw her entering a concert hall (I had a backstage pass) back in '89 and 2 were holding her up, Glenn Parish up front and Rebecca Alvarez behind her. She could hardly walk. It was a very sad situation.

whatever happened to Rebecca?

was she replaced by Karen's sister... Kelly, I think? And then Karen?

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by The Catdancer

True. I saw her entering a concert hall (I had a backstage pass) back in '89 and 2 were holding her up, Glenn Parish up front and Rebecca Alvarez behind her. She could hardly walk. It was a very sad situation.

I don't know if anyone has ever discussed what Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart said about Stevie's drug abuse in their book.

They said that Stevie spent the summer of '88 with them on their Animals tour. They said that most people they knew used cocaine to keep going until they crashed, but Stevie had her drug used down to a science. They also said that she was still using cocaine in the summer of '88. The sentence referring to her cocaine use sounded like the work of a ghost writer, but it could have been a paraphrase of things they actually said.

[svnwndrs]

Originally Posted by Kyle

I don't know if anyone has ever discussed what Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart said about Stevie's drug abuse in their book.

They said that Stevie spent the summer of '88 with them on their Animals tour. They said that most people they knew used cocaine to keep going until they crashed, but Stevie had her drug used down to a science. They also said that she was still using cocaine in the summer of '88. The sentence referring to her cocaine use sounded like the work of a ghost writer, but it could have been a paraphrase of things they actually said.

Now this is interesting....I (and most of us Stevie “fans/followers”) had thought that Stevie had kicked her cocaine habit by the end of 1986. Heart DID tour during the summer of 1986, so did they accidentally make a mistake with their memory and actually “hang out” with Stevie then, or was it really during their Bad Animals tour in the summer of ‘88?