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Old 08-18-2009, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl View Post
I'm not sure if Stevie purposefully kept the 'best' songs to herself. There are demos of an early version of Planets of the Universe from the Rumours era for example. I think it's possibly the case that she offers them to the band and they aren't so keen, or it just doesn't work, so she keeps them for her solo work where she has more freedom.
Yes, when Stevie said she gave Lindsey her songs for SYW, she said she was surprised that he hadn't heard them before, because she just assumed he'd heard everything she'd written. Lindsey clearly knew about POTU and Sorcerer. The band had Think About It, passed on Smile At You. I think she probably did offer FM a lot of her songs -- or even if she didn't offer, the songs were available to FM. Lindsey just took The Chain. If he knew of something else she had that he wanted to work with, he would have taken that too. I don't think they were interested in a lot of her solo material.

As stellar as it is, given the chance, FM probably wouldn't have used EO17.

Michele
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