The Sunday Times: Excess all areas

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Originally Posted by vivfox

Excellent article. I'm guessing the falling out between Lindsey and Stevie in 2003 was the result of Stevie not being happy with Lindsey's productions of her SYW songs.

Obviously I support this view too. That is all on the public record in Destiny Rules doco. And just ...Stevie's body language in interviews of the Say You Will era, some of the things she said. When Stevie Nicks says something that she does not believe to be true, when she tells a lie - it is just obvious. She wears her heart on her sleeve so you can tell when she says "It's heavy, isn't it?" bout SYW album, yes it is heavy. But you know she choose Illume as her favourite song from the album in some interview (or possibly that was Mick's favourite song).

The problem is we can't know the full story because Stevie doesn't want to dwell on it - SYW - nor does Lindsey. He thinks it turned out great, because his GOS1 songs were awesome I must admit (though some of the lyrics are cliched, I just cannot give his music playing/guitars poor critique) - and 7 of the 16 or so songs intended for GOS1 ended up being released, owned by and sold under the guise of "Fleetwood Mac".

I think Lindsey ...this is only my hunch...he probably doesn't care how his music is released provided his creative vision is fulfilled. He may have had his most successful solo album ever with GOS1 but instead he got to help Fleetwood Mac achieve ~800000 sales (0.8 million) with Say You Will. I'd say it's possibly more than that. It achieved Gold status but the sales figures have not been recorded/reported for a long time now, so it could actually have achieved platinum sales over the last ten years.

And it is probably difficult for Lindsey to let go of some anger that the best music he has ever produced was not compiled into one "artpiece" or "artwork" or whatever. But here's the reality kids: I can make the intended playlist of GOS1 using SYW songs and GOS2 and I get not the same thing, but music with a gorgeous soothing contralto female voice on the recording too. Plus Mick. Plus John laying down the bass lines, and black keys might I add on Syw.

Anyways...why write all this? Lindsey is big enough and ugly enough to accept now all that his job entails! He does not care any more about how he got ripped off in SYW by losing his rights to make GOS1 and be a really successful solo artist for the first time ever (meaning: similar to Stevie's star power/solo work income). And Stevie does not resent Lindsey for having smaller, more intimate solo work experiences. She got that with Dave Stewart and In Your Dreams, she worked first with Dave and her bandmates Waddy, the girls Lori and the other girl. Some other people too of course. In 2010. Then she released her record and she "personally sold" it to 300000 people.

And she was NOT dissatisfied with the album sales of IYD. The journalist who said she was needs to watch the interview she said this in, in context. It's like 15 min and he used a 15 second soundbite to write that Nicks was unhappy with her album sales. Not true. She does not care. Why would she? She's rich. She doesn't have to make money any more. She has investments and financially trained people to help her maintain those investments to secure her income. She wanted to make a record she liked, on her own terms, with Dave. And she did.

It's just four adults doing a job together these days I'd say. Four adults who all adore each other.