Storms Book by Carol Ann Harris
 

Is it coincidental that LB will end his touring on June 30 and this book comes out on July1?

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Storms



My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac


Carol Ann Harris (Author)

A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars—Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson—to the chaotic animosity between band members, this memoir combines the sensational account of some of the world’s most famous musicians with a thrilling love story. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, the parties, fights, drug use, shenanigans, and sex lives of Fleetwood Mac are presented in intimate detail. With the exception of one brief interview, Carol Ann Harris has never before spoken about her time with Fleetwood Mac.


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Author Bio: Carol Ann Harris (Author)
Pub Date: Jul 01, 2007

Oh rats!! He won't be able to sign the odd copy on tour now.
Bet he'd be sorry to miss those. ;)
(would have made a nice change from all those OOTC and GI, BN Cd's and LPs, he probabaly signs)

I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in what this money-grubbing HO has to say!:mad:

I want to get it and read it just for curiostiy's sake.

I admit...I pre-ordered it from Amazon. (Inquiring minds want to know, and I am one of them.) :nod: Be it fact or fiction... :nod:

T.D.

question. how do you know she's a money-grubbing HO? you know, i know, everyone knows i frickin love lb but what exactly has made her so hated? if i've missed something, please fill me in :shrug:

edited: john has said there are a lot of crazy stories that no one has ever revealed. could it be that's what she's doing?

The ho part was a figure of speech I'll say that. But here is a person who is using SOMEONE ELSES fame for their own gain. I find that repulsive. Now haveing said that, it's just my opinion, and if other people find what she has to say interesting, so be it.:nod:

Here is a review I found in Publishers Weekly. Looks like it is quite a page turner

Storms: My Life with Lindsay Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
Carol Ann Harris. Chicago Review, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55652-660-2

This is a fascinating if overlong look at the megasuccess of Fleetwood Mac in the mid-1970s, after the former British blues band recorded the laid-back rock songs of guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks that made the album Rumours one of the most popular of its era. While working at the band's recording studio, Harris, currently a music business costume designer, became Buckingham's girlfriend and constant companion from 1976 through 1984, and she gives a detailed look-more so than drummer and original member Mick Fleetwood's biography-at this already well-chronicled story of how the success of Rumours provided the income for extravagant cocaine-fueled excesses before, during and after performances. Harris too often uses clichés, such as her view of the band's "beautiful insanity." But she does candidly recount Buckingham's rage and his repeated physical assaults on her. Along the way, she offers great descriptions of the band's recording sessions, especially her account of Buckingham's desire to "create something new, something completely" different for Tusk, the more experimental (and less profitable) follow-up to Rumours. (July)

Lovely.

This book is going to suck. Poor Lindsey.

It will suck, as whatever she says will go down as fact in FM history. (among some fans) No one will look at her motivations. The fact she would even write a book about LB is lame but it is pretty obvious that the more smut and sex she includes, the better it will sell. Pathetic and I won't buy it.

Lindsey never assaulted Carol. He was just spreading his intense genius in a manner more physically assertive than a stupid prole like Ms. Harris could ever understand. Duh. :rolleyes:

You do not want to get into a discussion with me about this, I promise you that.

Let Ms. Harris earn a few quick bucks and 15 minutes of fame. Whatever.

She is not the only one to allege LB is violent :shrug: Moreover, if she were saying whollly untrue things, LB's people and, likely more so, La Nicks' people or FM's people (they are still a major money maker touring wise) would have stopped the publication of those lies. So, I think that while she may stretch it here and there, the book is based in truth.

In the end though, no one really gives a rat's a$$ in the big popular culture picture about LB. So, IMO, the less attention drawn to this book the better as it likely will sell poorly beased on LB's relative complete lack of significant relevance in the pop culture world.

As for her writing the book - they were her experiences and are a commodity. So, I do not fault her for that.

You certainly realize that LB has exihibited violent behaviour before :shrug:

I just do not get why people are loathe to admit that. I like LB and think he is a genius. He also was a helluva nice guy when I met him. His temper to others does not take away from that :shrug:

Gimme a break. She was even more of a coke head than Stevie Nicks was, I doubt anything that comes out of her mouth is based on clear memories and objective reasoning. It's her right to share this with the world in order to make a few bucks? If people want to write biographies, that's fine by me, but don't do it solely to drag other people through the mud. Which is clearly the case here, because nobody even knows who the hell Carol Ann Harris is.

I don't even care if what she says is true or not, I am not arguing that here, I am just saying it's tacky.

What an odd thing to say. Many writers such as biographers and journalists use someone else's fame for their own gain - so what? Maybe you just want to blow off some steam because she's challenging the Lindsey-as-all-conquering-hero myth?

The responses in this thread are, by and large, extremely hostile to Ms Harris. Maybe she really did have a bad time at the hands of LB - who are we to argue otherwise, since we weren't there? The sarcastic response by SortaSavageLike was repugnant - shame on you for trivializing domestic abuse (or alleged abuse in this case).

I'll probably read this book, because at least it presents another side to FM and LB. I'm not saying the revelations in the book are true, but then you can't be sure about the truth of any biography. Let the woman have her limelight - she's waited long enough to tell her story.

You were there - you know this for sure :shrug:

In the end, you seemingly are just pissed because she will cast LB in what we assume will be a totally bad light. On edit - the review posted above compliments LB's artistic side and seemingly portrays the band in a good like a la "beautiful insanity" - so it seemingly is not all bad :shrug:

And, it is her story to tell - she was there after all. Thus, I just do not get the auto hate for this book and the author.

And, if someone wrote a tell all book about La Nicks being a complete beeyotch during the RAL sessions (which she clearly was by her own admission) -- I'd support their right to publish that as well. Would I approach it with reservation, probably so. But, I approach Harris' book the same way.

Were you there all those times LB apparantly got violent? There are more reports about CAH snorting white dust than there are about LB assaulting people. So that argument doesn't fly.

Meh, not really. LB is far from the perfect guy lots of people peg him to be, I am definitely not one of those. What I care about is that it's completely unnecessary, 30 years after the fact, when the guy is happily married with kids.

I'd hate that also. :laugh: Unless it was done with Stevie's consent, which would most likely not be the case. I only care about stories about their past that come from their own mouths. Everything else, especially in the world that they live in, is usually far too exaggerated and embellished to be taken seriously. And I stand by my original point, it's just tacky.

Comparing the two does not in any way support your argument.

LB kicked La Nicks on stage and maybe threw a guitar at her then. Not just Mick said this. So, there is that.

That has nothing to do with who snorted more coke. Nor, does me not seeing Harris snort blow support your argument that she did more than La Nicks, which you asserted as a fact, which you could not possibly know as such unless you were there measuring the blow consumed by both over this eight or so year period :shrug:

To be fair - she has been trying for like ten years to get this published :shrug: My suspicion is that LB's people have been blocking it.

OMG. You are taking that part entirely too seriously. Measuring blow by blow... :laugh: My point was, she was a coke head, no doubt about that, and just as Mick Fleetwood got slammed for writing a book based on coke-induced memories, the same thing could be said about CAH.

Well, ofcourse! Who would need a ****ty book like that in their lives? Again, true or not true, it's just completely unnecessary.

That is true. But,m I still stand by my point that if this book was just a pack of lies with no basis in reality, it would have not been published. So, I will read it and take the points with a grain of salt -- just as i did Mick's book.

I do not get that conclusion. Should we look then only to books written by the band itself? If that were true, then that reasoning would have to apply to other popular figures. Again, these are her experiences. She was there.

I guess that's just me then, but while I love to read biographies, I usually only read them if they were written by the person itself or if the person in question was involved somehow. CAH is not going to write about herself, nobody even knows who she is and I sincerely doubt LB or the rest of the band had any input whatsoever. It's going to be a one-sided story.

But I'll let this argument (and my judgement) rest until I've actually read the book.

THEN - we will go at it!

You better take your vitamens from now until then so you can keep up :p :p

:angel:

I think I'm going to need a few bottles of tequila to get through it. :laugh:

I may have to fly to Amerterdam and we can discuss it in a "coffee" shop!

I'll be reading just as I read each of the Edward Wincenstein books! :wavey:

You're completely right, Strand. I'm certainly curious about what she has to say about the dark side of the man, although we always have to take everything with a grain of salt. Pissed exes are certainly no reliable source. I know that from experience:lol: .

agreed. i don't want to think lb was ever abusive to any woman ever but he's not a deity. he's a musical genius but he's still a person & if he had or has issues, so be it. it doesn't take away from why i love him in the first place. she has the right to write a book & if it's somehow cathartic for her or helps her achieve closure, why all the hatred? it's as simple as not reading it. and i for one do take offense at trivializing abuse.

Was there any doubt :wavey: :wavey:

again, i respect & admire lb but truthfully, is it possible he doesn't want the truth to be told? didn't stevie refer to him as the ayatollah once? didn't he throw her over the hood of a car & beat on her till a few guys had to pull him off. well that was bad enough & my guess as to his blocking of the book came in not wanting the untold stuff to be told. the band members (except mick the one time) have been mostly tightlipped about everything that happened. even john said that in his q&a. & they're a tight group. carol ann is no longer a part of the group (meaning the clique) & it might be possible she never got over it or him. this might be her cleansing of the situation & of him once & for all. freedom of speech doesn't make someone a disgusting ho.

i also don't get the coke references. even if she was a major junkie, did that warrant the beatings? if you're saying her memory is bad, why is there such a love for stevie nicks among the same posters who apparantly hate carol ann? stevie blew a hole through her nose. i don't think that makes her a moron who can't remember the past, do you? & for the record, stevie has dissed lb in the press too. so what's the difference?

I feel so much better when people misinterpret my heavy-handed sarcasm and take personal offense to it. Maybe I should post some pictures of Lindsey at Pearl Harbor or posing with Hitler in Paris.

^^^

There are live interviews where Stevie has said she attacked LB first in the TITN touring argument. That does not justify LB beating the crap out of her though.

I have those too :eek:

:wavey:

well...also, what could Stevie really do? I mean, her munchkin ass couldn't cause much damage. wouldn't that be hilarious if Stevie beat the **** out of LB?! :laugh: let's see...a perm, makeup, beaten up by a girl....:lol:

just kidding everyone. simmer down.

:laugh: ok, i had to laugh. do you really think i compare lb to pearl harbor or hitler? would i be a fan on a message board if i did? :lol: