So Its Confirmed Now?...

foxyluva · #1 07-30-2006, 09:56 PM

"Sara" really is about Stevie's abortion?....

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...6-9bd791319535

But individually, they were having fun. The Eagles' Don Henley was a notorious womanizer and would regularly send Lear jets to pick up his latest conquest - such as Fleetwood Mac's troubled, heavy drinking singer Stevie Nicks, who became his lover for a short time in 1975.

"Henley's Lear jet pickups became so legendary," writes Hoskyns, "that he himself later coined the phrase 'Love them and Lear them.' Nicks must have felt the bitter-sweet irony of that phrase when she became pregnant by Henley and found herself pressured into having an abortion. Sara, her heartbreaking song about the aborted child, became a Top 10 hit for Fleetwood Mac in 1979."

Johnny Stew · #2 07-30-2006, 10:08 PM

I wouldn't call that a confirmation, but it echoes Don Henley's statement to GQ magazine that he "believes" "Sara" was written for the child he fathered and Stevie aborted.

foxyluva · #3 07-30-2006, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I wouldn't call that a confirmation, but it echoes Don Henley's statement to GQ magazine that he "believes" "Sara" was written for the child he fathered and Stevie aborted.

I see, but the article made it sound like it was common knowledge....

btw, Marilyn Martin looks extremely freaky in that sig picture

Johnny Stew · #4 07-30-2006, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by foxyluva

btw, Marilyn Martin looks extremely freaky in that sig picture

Really? I think she looks adorable. I miss the gal. She should've be on the road with Stevie this past decade, instead of Mindy or Jana.

foxyluva · #5 07-30-2006, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Really? I think she looks adorable. I miss the gal. She should've be on the road with Stevie this past decade, instead of Mindy or Jana.

She must have the smallest head I have ever seen - she looked great when she was younger, but now that she is older, I don't know wether to laugh or cry :/

JazmenFlowers · #6 07-31-2006, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I wouldn't call that a confirmation, but it echoes Don Henley's statement to GQ magazine that he "believes" "Sara" was written for the child he fathered and Stevie aborted.

is the GQ article out there anywhere? I've never actually sat down and read it.

SortaSavageLike · #7 07-31-2006, 08:43 AM

I thought she threw it off the Empire State Building?

eclipse · #8 07-31-2006, 08:46 AM

I may be stirring up a pot- but who cares??
Sorry Don fans...but I have never liked him.
Don Henely sounds like the cocky, self-absorbed, rock and roll as*hole, and typical 80's macho man....

"Love em and Lear em"....how cruel!~!!
Plus, imagine how any of those women involved felt? What a CAD

On the Sara topic:
To betray Stevie's confidence (If the allegations are true...) is just poor.
No class- rude, mean, evil, heartless,cruel tasteless, charmless, and bad
Please insert whatever other words mean nasty here_____

eclipse · #9 07-31-2006, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

I thought she threw it off the Empire State Building?

She should have...!!!
and why the hell would she tour with him after this crap...
I am enraged

There are limits to forgive and forget!!!

But this anger may be useless because none of it may be true

ELIUD · #10 07-31-2006, 11:35 AM

I don't think that confirms anything either. And the only thing that bothers me about Sara being about an aborted fetus, is the very notion Stevie would be crazy enough to write a song like that about it.

I don't believe and I never have. To me it's always going to be about an affair that broke up a friendship. It just makes more sense.

BlackWidow · #11 07-31-2006, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Really? I think she looks adorable. I miss the gal. She should've be on the road with Stevie this past decade, instead of Mindy or Jana.

I love Marilyn Martin..AMAZING VOICE!!!

PenguinHead · #12 07-31-2006, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by foxyluva

I see, but the article made it sound like it was common knowledge....

btw, Marilyn Martin looks extremely freaky in that sig picture

I think Stevie looks as equally freaky. So serious and vacant, sort of like a Stepford wife.

Johnny Stew · #13 07-31-2006, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

is the GQ article out there anywhere? I've never actually sat down and read it.

I'm not sure if it's online or not. I'd suggest that some Eagles or Don Henley fan site might have it, but the fans of a lot of other artists don't seem to compile various articles and reviews with the amount of care that Mac fans do.

I'm trying to remember when it was published... I read it in the library, years before I worked there. I'm thinking maybe around 1990?

Johnny Stew · #14 07-31-2006, 01:35 PM

Ok, I did a quick bit of browsing through the library's research database, and this is what I found....

Title: Too many choices. (cover story)
Authors: Connelly, C.
Source: GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly; Aug91, Vol. 61 Issue 8, p138, 10p, 12c, 3bw
Subject Terms: HENLEY, Don
Abstract: Profiles 44-year-old rock star Don Henley. His involvement in the most commercially successful band of the 1970s, the Eagles; His solo career after the breakup of the Eagles in 1980; Albums include `I Can't Stand Still,' `Building the Perfect Beast,' and `The End of the Innocence'; His childhood; His political and environmental activism; The Walden Woods Project.

Johnny Stew · #15 07-31-2006, 01:40 PM

With the article's title in hand, I was able to find it online....

Don Henley: Too Many Choices

If you can't be bothered to read the full article, here's the paragraph about Stevie....

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Henley’s prodigious romantic escapades would include an affair with Stevie Nicks, who “I believe to the best of my knowledge became pregnant by me. And she named the [unborn] kid Sara, and she had an abortion”-and then wrote the song of the same name “to the spirit of the aborted baby. I was building my house at the time, and there’s a line in the song that says ‘And when you build your house, call me.’