So Its Confirmed Now?...
 

"Sara" really is about Stevie's abortion?....

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...6-9bd791319535

But individually, they were having fun. The Eagles' Don Henley was a notorious womanizer and would regularly send Lear jets to pick up his latest conquest - such as Fleetwood Mac's troubled, heavy drinking singer Stevie Nicks, who became his lover for a short time in 1975.

"Henley's Lear jet pickups became so legendary," writes Hoskyns, "that he himself later coined the phrase 'Love them and Lear them.' Nicks must have felt the bitter-sweet irony of that phrase when she became pregnant by Henley and found herself pressured into having an abortion. Sara, her heartbreaking song about the aborted child, became a Top 10 hit for Fleetwood Mac in 1979."

I wouldn't call that a confirmation, but it echoes Don Henley's statement to GQ magazine that he "believes" "Sara" was written for the child he fathered and Stevie aborted.

I see, but the article made it sound like it was common knowledge....

btw, Marilyn Martin looks extremely freaky in that sig picture :laugh:

Really? I think she looks adorable. I miss the gal. She should've be on the road with Stevie this past decade, instead of Mindy or Jana.

She must have the smallest head I have ever seen - she looked great when she was younger, but now that she is older, I don't know wether to laugh or cry :/

is the GQ article out there anywhere? I've never actually sat down and read it.

I thought she threw it off the Empire State Building? :shrug:

What a CAD
 

I don't think that confirms anything either. And the only thing that bothers me about Sara being about an aborted fetus, is the very notion Stevie would be crazy enough to write a song like that about it.

I don't believe and I never have. To me it's always going to be about an affair that broke up a friendship. It just makes more sense.

I love Marilyn Martin..AMAZING VOICE!!!

I think Stevie looks as equally freaky. So serious and vacant, sort of like a Stepford wife.

I'm not sure if it's online or not. I'd suggest that some Eagles or Don Henley fan site might have it, but the fans of a lot of other artists don't seem to compile various articles and reviews with the amount of care that Mac fans do.

I'm trying to remember when it was published... I read it in the library, years before I worked there. I'm thinking maybe around 1990?

Ok, I did a quick bit of browsing through the library's research database, and this is what I found....

Title: Too many choices. (cover story)
Authors: Connelly, C.
Source: GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly; Aug91, Vol. 61 Issue 8, p138, 10p, 12c, 3bw
Subject Terms: HENLEY, Don
Abstract: Profiles 44-year-old rock star Don Henley. His involvement in the most commercially successful band of the 1970s, the Eagles; His solo career after the breakup of the Eagles in 1980; Albums include `I Can't Stand Still,' `Building the Perfect Beast,' and `The End of the Innocence'; His childhood; His political and environmental activism; The Walden Woods Project.

With the article's title in hand, I was able to find it online....

Don Henley: Too Many Choices

If you can't be bothered to read the full article, here's the paragraph about Stevie....