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Originally Posted by Kyle
The story about Lindsey insisting that FM hire Stevie is just part of the Stevie/Lindsey drama. It's a made of story. Keith Olsen has never told the story that way. Keith has always said that he explained, to Mick, that they were a couple. Then, Mick extended the invitation to both of them. In fact, Keith says that it was Stevie's brother who paid Stevie and Lindsey a salary to be in FM.
From a Keith Olsen interview:
"'But the good news is, you know those two kids, who were they? Lindsey and Stevie? Do you think they'd want to join my band? Could you go and find out?' And I took 12 hours of constant pounding on them to try to convince them to join Fleetwood Mac on a trial basis only. And they joined Fleetwood Mac as a trial basis and they said they'd do it just for 6 weeks. Then they got better, then they found out that they were making money, just because her brother's paying their salary at 500 bucks a week. They said, well this is great."
http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/keitholsen.html |
No it's not. It's well known that Mick was only looking for a guitarist and that's what he mainly was after. He wanted Lindsey but was quick to find out Lindsey was part of a duo. And it is true that Lindsey would not have joined without Stevie, which is why Mick told Christine "fine we'll take her only if you get along with her too". Christine said that story herself in a fairly recent radio interview, that before they met up with SnL, Mick told her they were mainly after the guy on guitar and that they'd take his singing music/life partner too so long as Christine was okay with her and with having another girl singer in the band. Christine said she and Stevie got along great and she thought Lindsey was super hot so they both joined.
During Stevie's "Without You" stories she used to talk about it as if Mick wanted them both until she said Lindsey was like "actually no, they wanted me, not you".