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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr
I have to disagree with her. They made him a producer and he was a main player in this book. It was indeed HIS story. He was in the recording studio, on the trips with them, he put HIS neck right into Lindsey's hands to get choked.
He didn't glorify the drugs and this was no secret.
She can''t stop him from telling his experience. She doesn't have to participate if she doesn't want to. And she didn't.
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See, I get where you're coming from, but I don't think it's entirely that way. To make it just about
his story, would've been him telling about his life and his working aspect with the band. Because as far as I can tell, he was never particularly buddy buddy with them outside of work, they weren't going to movies on the weekends or having family get togethers-- their relationship was mostly professional. But once you start to talk a whole lot about these other people and their lives, then no, it's not JUST your story, you're starting to tell their stories too, or at least your interpretation of their story. And it's not like I think this is unusual, like I said it's how a lot of tell alls like that are. But I can see where Stevie is coming from as well, especially if she's someone in the public eye, it must be annoying to have to be wary of other people looking to (let's be honest here) make a buck off talking about you. That's why I do kind of get why she was also mad at Heart (although they're prominent people), even though I don't think it was a big deal what they wrote.
That's something I think is interesting. I read Pattie Boyd's memoir just last week and I noticed a lot of the reviews called it boring. She's someone who's sort of in the middle, she's not a nobody, she is someone somewhat relevant but she's relevant mostly because of the situations she was in and the people she was married to. But her book was very much about
her. There was no new information on The Beatles at all, hardly even on George. She talked about her view on the rise to fame and the trip to India and her marriage to George, but nothing that hasn't already been well documented or particularly juicy. And Eric Clapton revealed a whole hell of a lot more dirty details in his own memoir about their marriage. It was all very respectful to other people involved, as it was very much about her, how she dealt with her upbringing, modeling, her struggles in marriages, the emotional trauma of failed marriages, finding herself again, etc. And so everyone seemed to find it boring.
**Also, I'm not saying he shouldn't have mentioned Lindsey choking him, since obviously that happened to him. I'm talking in general terms.