Friend

Gailh · #1 08-03-2006, 02:42 PM

I've just been looking at Amazon and checking out a new book about Stevie (sorry Homer)

I used the check inside thingy and typed in Christine McVie and quite a few things came including speculation that Friend is about Stevie.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0978...go.x=6&go.y=12

Does anyone think this is the case?

Personally I don't but I have no idea why!

Gail

Johnny Stew · #2 08-03-2006, 03:10 PM

I've heard that rumour before, but I'm not sure that I agree with that interpretation. Certainly it's possible, but the lyrics are far too open-ended to conclusively say, "it's definitely about Stevie," or really any one person for that matter. It could be about John... Mick... heck, with all the references to the sun going down, it could be about Billy or Rick!

macfan 57 · #3 08-03-2006, 03:38 PM

I remember there was some speculation that it was about Stevie, John, Mick, Fleetwood Mac, etc. I think she wrote it about the guy who inspired the album...missing his friendship. I guess it's possible it's Fleetwood Mac related, but I doubt it. I believe Mick in an interview mentioned that ITM had nothing to do with anyone in Fleetwood Mac. It is fun to speculate though.

By the way, did anyone notice the last name of the author of this book?

HomerMcvie · #4 08-03-2006, 08:17 PM

Sounds like the lesbian version of shippering!

Aisling · #5 08-04-2006, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Sounds like the lesbian version of shippering!

haha, yes, the author just WISHES the song was about stevie. i agree that the song is about whomever she wrote the whole album for.

DavidMn · #6 08-05-2006, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Sounds like the lesbian version of shippering!

Good lord!!

aleuzzi · #7 08-06-2006, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

By the way, did anyone notice the last name of the author of this book?

Yes, how unfortunate for the author!

BombaySapphire3 · #8 08-06-2006, 04:51 AM

I think she (author) is a hack just making ****e up to fill up her pasted together book.

nicepace · #9 08-30-2006, 11:54 AM

I think it's highly unlikely that the song is 'about' any member of Fleetwood Mac. In fact, I don't think the song is necessarily 'about' anyone in particular. What a songwriter does is start with a feeling, an incident, a person -- any aspect of the human experience, for that matter -- and uses that bit of experience to go wherever their imagination leads them.

Maybe Chris was thinking about the man who supposedly inspired much of 'In the Meantime' when the first phrases or bars of music popped into her head; but that doesn't mean she didn't think of other people she has known and loved while she was composing the song. The song uses lyrical imagery to describe a feeling that just about everyone can relate to, which is why the song can touch so many people.

-Joanne (fan since 1974)

Gailh · #10 08-30-2006, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nicepace

I think it's highly unlikely that the song is 'about' any member of Fleetwood Mac. In fact, I don't think the song is necessarily 'about' anyone in particular. What a songwriter does is start with a feeling, an incident, a person -- any aspect of the human experience, for that matter -- and uses that bit of experience to go wherever their imagination leads them.

Maybe Chris was thinking about the man who supposedly inspired much of 'In the Meantime' when the first phrases or bars of music popped into her head; but that doesn't mean she didn't think of other people she has known and loved while she was composing the song. The song uses lyrical imagery to describe a feeling that just about everyone can relate to, which is why the song can touch so many people.

-Joanne (fan since 1974)

I think that perhaps some people got a little over excited about this song given that we know a lot of the songs on ITM are very personal.

I don't think it's about Stevie in particular but about generally missing people she left behind in Los Angeles

Gail

**jbrownsjr** · #11 08-30-2006, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Gailh

I think that perhaps some people got a little over excited about this song given that we know a lot of the songs on ITM are very personal.

I don't think it's about Stevie in particular but about generally missing people she left behind in Los Angeles

Gail

it's about her dog...

Gailh · #12 08-30-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

it's about her dog...

Dougal or George?

Careful how you answer one of them could get upset

Gail

**jbrownsjr** · #13 08-30-2006, 08:19 PM

remember when someone kept asking her in the bootleg video(don't know which one... mary anne will know)... what songbird was about.. and she said my dog! hahahhaha

i love christine

Aisling · #14 08-30-2006, 09:47 PM

well i would say it's about a dog from "long ago", as she says "i really miss my friend" in the chorus. so no need to upset dougal or george. in fact, it's probably the same dog songbird is about!

Gailh · #15 08-31-2006, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Aisling

well i would say it's about a dog from "long ago", as she says "i really miss my friend" in the chorus. so no need to upset dougal or george. in fact, it's probably the same dog songbird is about!

that's a good point.

"Long ago before the moon was young
And before the first love song had ever been sung
We both knew beyond a shadow of doubt
What loving some doggy was all about"

Gail