If it had been a small mix-up of which track was on an early 70s album and which was on Chicken Shack or something, maybe I'd have let it slide (for an article, anyway... not for a biography). But... Rumours? I mean, come on.


Other than the personal anecdotes of interactions at parties etc. (the veracity of which we have to take on trust, especially regarding what people actually said), the filler about which songs were on which albums and all the other publicly available information could readily be assembled using AI. In fact, I had a go using ChatGPT 3.5. Please send a check to DownOnRodeo for a copy of the full book!

Homer will send you $$. He's rich.

Exactly. It’s not an either or issue.

Bob Brunning’s book offered some “unofficial” info that was great, but the inaccuracies on simple, easily-verified info was unforgivable.

"Songbird Chronicles: A Harmony of Life with Christine McVie"

After reading that quote, Lesley-Ann Jones contains episodes like does, it does make me look forward to reading that book. Those mentioned anecdotes sound funny, if not interesting too.

Slight mistakes or inaccuracies may be accepted, or perhaps we will never realize them. Like for example supposedly she played Sugar Daddy instead of Brown Eyes, that something we would even never know. But confusing albums, that would be serious.

And the pictures that book will contain :cool: .

However I doubt about how friends they were. If the book title says intimate, it hints they were close friends. However Mick's first book doesn't mention Lesley, as it does mention Robin Anderson for example.

I will send them my most prized possession.

My $tevie Nicks dart board! (I'm keeping the $tevie voodoo dolls).



:p

Over My Head….no idea what to believe now. A few years ago, the story was it was about Lindsey. Never did believe that BS.

That BBC thing was the only time I ever heard her say that old song was about Lindsey. It seemed a little odd to suddenly reach that conclusion. seems more likely to be about the stress and circus wheel of living with an alcoholic... jmho.

--Lis

Yeah, I never bought that story. I mean it’s possible but I would believe it has more to do with John.

I agree. The "it's about Lindsey" would make more sense if Over My Head was written during Tusk or later album, cause he loose patience more often with the band during recording sessions, or so I read.

She also said it in 2013 ish right before she came back. I sort of believe that she was afraid to say it during their "heyday" Especially, after World Turning.

Didn’t know she said it in 2013-ish, too. Interesting. I still don’t buy it. But interesting.

Agree to disagree... The 2013 or 2014 interview where I'm claiming she said it was when they did the 5 of them on BBC. Separate interviews (obviously) and strung together. I think it's around the time Stevie was in Paris.

I hadn't heard that she said it 2013ish either. But if she wrote the song in early 1975, how well could she have even *known* LB by that point? Was his icy/ moody brilliance that evident early on when he and stevie had first joined the band?

I guess it's possible. just seems a bit unlikely. To me, his moods and intensity seem more likely to have made an imprint on her as more time went by and she had more opportunities to see it/deal with it firsthand.

--Lis

I'm going to go find it. It was right before the 2014 tour. :woohoo:

My theory to reconcile the two narratives is that the negative parts ("wasting my time") were primarily about (alcoholic) John, while the positive parts ("sure feels nice") were about this handsome and creative new man who had just joined her band. But considering how many countless hours of studio time Chris must have shared with Lindsey the brooding perfectionist, I don't see it taking long for the song to start applying wholly to Lindsey in Chris' mind.