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Originally Posted by Villavic
Was she? I always thought her first rehab was before Tango, 1987.
Just by watching the video, I can't say it was torture for Lindsey or the entire band. I always see Gypsy as a nostalgia song, not a song about happiness where everyone should be smiling. I've seen plenty of videos of sad or nostalgic songs where the bands or singers look serious, sad, or simply doesn't smile. I didn't get the impression that they were being tortured in the Gypsy video, I repeat, while watching the video in 1982. I loved and still love the video. And the song.
Of course, knowing everything we know now, my perception changes. But even so, I wouldn't call it "torture", and don't think that was why he appeared like that in the scene. Anyway I'd like to know how they agreed to film those scenes. I guess the general concept was Stevie idea since Mick wrote it was her "fantasy world". And it's obvious that if she wanted a '40s dance scene with someone, people would much prefer it to be Lindsey rather than Mick or John. But if Lindsey felt it would be a "torture" to dance with her, he could have said No. Torture is when you are forced to do someting. But he was 33, a grown man, a millionaire, had another manager, he could negotiate his terms effectively. I find it hard to believe they would force him, especially someone with his strong personality. And if he agreed to do it, he shouldn't complain later. After all, he must have made a good revenue from that album.
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It was revealed many years ago here during the Hold Me behind the scenes segments were released that it was revealed Stevie went to rehab before the Mirage tour. It was private and not many knew about it. In another recent article or video here it was also discussed the Gypsy shoot with everything ready to go could not be rescheduled and she abandoned ship and went to the video shoot. Stevie said Lindey was not acting with stone face. He did not want to be with her. Yes it was torture for them. No one tells them what to do or what time to get up. This is why they hated the process and explains why no video was made for Love In Store. The tight schedules, the make up, the constant retakes. Stevie said it was brutal and like making a movie. Stevie was begging for cocaine during the Gypsy shoot. It was just posted here several months ago in someone's book or something and someone smuggled it in but it mysteriously disappeared.
This is NOT in the book but it is cut and paste from wikipedia
The video for the song, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was the highest-budget music video ever produced at the time.[20] The video locations included a highly detailed portrayal of a forest and required many costumes and dancers. It was the very first "World Premiere Video" on MTV in 1982.[citation needed]
Interpersonal strife amongst the band members complicated the shoot, much as they had with the earlier video for "Hold Me". When he was pairing them during blocking, Mulcahy recalls, "people were pulling me aside saying, 'No, no. Those two were ****ing and then they split up and now he's sleeping with her.' I got very confused, who was sleeping with whom."[21]
Nicks especially remembers the experience as unpleasant. Two weeks before the shoot, she had gone into drug rehabilitation to try to overcome her cocaine addiction. However, the video shoot could not be rescheduled, and she had to take a break for it. Near the end of the first of three days of the shoot, Nicks was exhausted and said she needed cocaine. A small bottle was discreetly given to her, though it was thrown out before she could use any. Nicks later said, "I think we would probably have gone on to make many more great videos like 'Gypsy' had we not been so into drugs."[21]