Stevie and Mick: In Her Words
 

"We were finishing the Rumours tour [in late 1977] and we had gone to Australia. One night we had a party and everybody was drunk and everybody was gone and it was just me and Mick, and we ended up spending the night together. And I fell in love with Mick and I think Mick fell in love with me. We had three weeks in Australia and 10 days in Japan to get through and then we were meeting up with all our families in Hawaii. Jenny, Mick’s wife, was there, and Paul, the man I’d been seeing, and nobody knew about me and Mick because we had been incredibly discreet. I told Paul how sorry I was and Mick told Jenny, and then we had to go to Maui and play a show. Then everybody went back to the mainland, but Mick and I stayed in Hawaii for two days and drove around the mountains and talked about what a dumb-ass thing it was that we had done and that, basically, we were not going to break up Fleetwood Mac. And we got on the plane, held hands all the way back to Los Angeles, and realized, when we got off that plane, that for all practical purposes it was over. It had its month of glory, which was fantastic and very romantic, and then when we got back to LA it was not romantic any more, it was horrifying. It should never have happened."

By Sylvie Simmons
Q Magazine (UK)
May 1, 2008

I dislike that romance for some reason. It just seems icky to me somehow.

I think it's because nobody thought somebody so tiny and delicate could love somebody as giant, and with such a distinct personality as Mick. I had trouble believing this too, but after reading into the lyrics of BATB, you can really tell how Stevie felt about him.

I wonder how that worked, I mean mechanically? :sorry:

Umm, no. The relationship was creepy because they were in a band together. Stevie's recent ex of nearly a decade was also in the band. Mick was married with children. All of these people were friends. They were all traveling the world together as a group for years on end. It was just totally messed up, all of it! The affair has never struck me as genuine, either. It seemed to be fueled by ego and fame more than love or passion, too. I just have never bought into any of it, the whole story is oogie.

...and drugs and alcohol.

Stevie was a Farrah Fawcett back then. She was like a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, a brand-new Trans-Am with a sunroof, an ice-cold can of 'Tab' during a heat-wave. You know what I mean? She was on fire in terms of her beauty and mysterious sexuality, Mick seems many steps down compared to what she could have gotten. How could it have been worth it for her?

"That electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks never dies, never will die, never will go away...He's married, he's happy, he has three beautiful children that I love. You know, he's found a good, happy, calm, safe place — but who Lindsey and I are to each other will never change. It's over. It doesn't mean the great feeling isn't there, it must mean that ... you know, we're beauty and the beast. It means that the love is always there but we'll never be together, so that's even more romantic." ~ Stevie Nicks, 2009


I agree ... fueled by cocaine ... if it's even true ...

I NEVER related that lyric to this...wow! *chills*

Beauty and the Beast
written for Mick Fleetwood
inspired by the Jean Cocteau and his early French film about Beauty and the Beast
dedicated to Vincent and Katherine

You can write something for someone without it being about them. Like how she dedicates different songs to people :shrug:

That's true but I don't think she wrote a song for Mick about her and Lindsey :shrug: as someone was eluding to.

^Agreed :)

BATB is definitely about Mick, IMO. I remember when I first heard about them being together...I was like "WTF??" He's so tall & she's so short...and he had all that facial hair YIKES!!! :lol: Over time, though, I've come to think its kind of sweet...and I love how close they are now :angel:

I never found Mick Fleetwood to be attractive until last year. And I have yet to figure out why.