FM's Songbird- Documentary

Villavic · #1 07-15-2025, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepless child

I believe it was in Micks book and referred to Tango. When she listened to the album, she was mad she was hardly on it. And said something like how would it feel to tell RS she was hardly on it. Chris reminded her she wasn't ever there and apologize and she could be added to some background vocals. Which she did.

THat's right. I just checked the book. My confusion was because at first I read about her threatening to say that she didn't like the (Mirage) album. This is what Mick wrote:

We did have one blowout with Stevie when she came to the studio to listen to the mixes before Tango in the Night was released. After the playback was finished, she began to storm around the studio like a tornado. "It's like I'm not evenon this record," she complained. "I can't hear myself at all." I knew Stevie pretty well, and could tell she was angry. Then she threatened us. "All right, maybe I wasn't able to get to the studio that much, but how is it going to look when the record comes out and I might have to tell Rolling Stone that I didn't work on it?"

Christine McVie's eyes narrowed. She'd had a couple of glasses of wine, and wasn't about to be trifled with. "OK, Stevie," she said, "what are you so upset about?" "I should be singing on 'Everywhere,'" Stevie said. "You should hear me singing harmony on that song."

"I wanted you to sing on it too," Chris said in measured tones that signaled she was furious, "but you weren't here. In fact, we've been working for a year and you were only with us for a couple of days. Now why don't you just say you're sorry and we'll work it out?"

Omits gracefully, Stevie capitulated in front of the whole band, and we gleefully layered her vocals into the mix of the album, which now sounded indeed more like Fleetwood Mac. Stevie had been right after all, and so had Christine.

I agree with Christine point. And if it was a threat it was absurd. By acknowledging her absence during the record sessions, she would have been the one who would have looked bad instead of the band.

Macfan4life · #2 07-15-2025, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

THat's right. I just checked the book. My confusion was because at first I read about her threatening to say that she didn't like the (Mirage) album. This is what Mick wrote:

We did have one blowout with Stevie when she came to the studio to listen to the mixes before Tango in the Night was released. After the playback was finished, she began to storm around the studio like a tornado. "It's like I'm not evenon this record," she complained. "I can't hear myself at all." I knew Stevie pretty well, and could tell she was angry. Then she threatened us. "All right, maybe I wasn't able to get to the studio that much, but how is it going to look when the record comes out and I might have to tell Rolling Stone that I didn't work on it?"

Christine McVie's eyes narrowed. She'd had a couple of glasses of wine, and wasn't about to be trifled with. "OK, Stevie," she said, "what are you so upset about?" "I should be singing on 'Everywhere,'" Stevie said. "You should hear me singing harmony on that song."

"I wanted you to sing on it too," Chris said in measured tones that signaled she was furious, "but you weren't here. In fact, we've been working for a year and you were only with us for a couple of days. Now why don't you just say you're sorry and we'll work it out?"

Omits gracefully, Stevie capitulated in front of the whole band, and we gleefully layered her vocals into the mix of the album, which now sounded indeed more like Fleetwood Mac. Stevie had been right after all, and so had Christine.

I agree with Christine point. And if it was a threat it was absurd. By acknowledging her absence during the record sessions, she would have been the one who would have looked bad instead of the band.

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For the record, Stevie did like Mirage. She is asked about Mirage during her MTV interviews in 1982 where she said she liked it much more than Tusk and that is was much more like Rumours.
And if Stevie is on Everywhere I can't hear her

Villavic · #3 07-16-2025, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

And if Stevie is on Everywhere I can't hear her

That's what I immediately thought after reading it for the first time. And I still do. Did she actually complain about Everywhere? Or was it a Mick's confusion? Cause I never found where Stevie sings there. I supposed it was Little Lies, but there is no "early version" of LL in the Deluxe edition. I wonder why not.

Macfan4life · #4 07-16-2025, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

That's what I immediately thought after reading it for the first time. And I still do. Did she actually complain about Everywhere? Or was it a Mick's confusion? Cause I never found where Stevie sings there. I supposed it was Little Lies, but there is no "early version" of LL in the Deluxe edition. I wonder why not.

Only Lindsey knows for sure and unless he writes a tell all book we shall never know. Lindsey only said he used technology to make his voice sound like Stevie on a few places and it was him that did the last verse of When I See You Again to finish the song. We dont know what is real and what is not real and probably never will.
Mick could have been purposely misleading or in the dark like the rest of us.
Her layered in vocals are much more obvious on BTM. Besides her songs she only sings with the band on Skies The Limit and Back of My Mind. She is not even on the chorus of Save Me but layered in a few times at the end "Save Me." She does one moan on the title track. She does not sing chorus on When The Sun Goes Down but mysteriously appears for one "take good care."

WalkAThinLine. · #5 07-16-2025, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

That's what I immediately thought after reading it for the first time. And I still do. Did she actually complain about Everywhere? Or was it a Mick's confusion? Cause I never found where Stevie sings there. I supposed it was Little Lies, but there is no "early version" of LL in the Deluxe edition. I wonder why not.

Someone isolated the vocals for "Everywhere" in this video, which you can find below. I might hear Stevie at the 20 second mark of this video, particularly for the lyric "be with you everywhere". On the regular studio version, it's far more difficult to make out her voice with all of the instrumentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzKQ9R0RTU

Macfan4life · #6 07-16-2025, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

Someone isolated the vocals for "Everywhere" in this video, which you can find below. I might hear Stevie at the 20 second mark of this video, particularly for the lyric "be with you everywhere". On the regular studio version, it's far more difficult to make out her voice with all of the instrumentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzKQ9R0RTU

Lindsey checked both boxes on that one.

Layer her vocals in on the track check
Make sure she is not heard check

Its like her vocals on Don't Stop and Hold Me