The Ballad of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

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in my quick search to find the Petty comments I found this one again and found it amusing to remember that Tom NEVER asked Stevie to join the Heartbreakers even though she pretty much stalked him and inserted herself into his life (and took, per Tom, a huge heaping of insults and abuse from him and his band to get what she wanted.....she'll do what it takes to get a man to help her out it seems) however he did actually ask Lindsey to join...

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tom-pet...heartbreakers/

The late singer-songwriter remembered: “Oh, she wouldn’t quit. Stevie showed up at my house every night for a year – maybe more. There’s no girls in the Heartbreakers”.

However, Petty said Nicks persisted in asking the question “every ****ing night”.

He added: “‘Stevie’s in room so-and-so.’ ‘Stevie wants a song.’ We gave her a hard ****ing time: ‘No way you’re coming to a session. Look at the ****ing clothes you’ve got on.’ The fact that she stuck around was amazing.”


Speaking to Men’s Journal, Petty recalled: “I do remember trying to talk Lindsey into joining the band that night. Stevie [Nicks] wasn’t playing with them at the time, so I said, ‘Why don’t you just join our band and get the heat off of me?’ I never wanted to be the front guy – I got that job and I’ve been stuck with it ever since.”