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Originally Posted by David

What makes it all even spookier in my estimation is that she wrote about her 1979 self in 1975. How could she possibly have known about the gauzy romanticism of her later image back when she was still the jeans-clad fifth wheel in Fleetwood Mac? How did she know that, within a year or two, her dressing room backstage would be filled with groupies & helpers to the point of emotional suffocation -- when Fleetwood Mac were still carting themselves around in station wagons?

Maybe she was writing about Stevie Nicks in Janis Joplin's tragic predicament. Maybe it all tied in somehow with her vocal exorcisms for "Rhiannon" onstage. There was something about being on the verge of fame that was an even heavier trip for Stevie than the fame itself when it finally came.

It's a remarkable song in many ways (although I don't really see this musical similarity between it & "Rhiannon"). I'd also like to know how that reference to Inge came about. Did she read the play? Did she watch the Robert Preston movie & just swipe the title because she liked the sound of it?

I think she knew what she would be, knew the kind of attention she wanted and was capable of getting, and probably had already had a taste of it, big time. I don't think Stevie was in any way accidentally so famous and so fabulous...
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