Who do you think Stevie is talking about here?

[AliP]

Up Close with Stevie Nicks - 1994
(about the song "Love is Like a River")"That song is about one of the stranger male rock stars in the world today and even though he's just a pain in my neck for years when I think about him I have to laugh. And when I think about him I almost laugh so hard I'm going to cry because the good things about our relationship always remain to me and there were so many bad things about it and I was so miserable, so upset, and so heartbroken, but at the same time when I think about it, I think 'well, yeah, he used to call me wicked, I used to call him friend. He said that my life was hard to deal with...compared to what YOUR lifestyle? YOUR lifestyle? You're telling me that my lifestyle is completely crazy and screwed up? But what about YOU?' But see there is a double standard in rock and roll, it's not ok for me, it's perfectly perfect for all of them. So that's why when I write my songs I try to end up with hope because if I can't end up with hope then they'll kill me. Then I'm going to go down in the onslaught. So I try to reflect on that fact that, yes, when I look back on his and mine relationship I do have to smile to myself and go 'God, there were some such cool moments between him and me.' But I'll never ever do that again. They'll never be repeated, that was a first."


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I don't know...maybe Prince or Joe Walsh??

[celestenadia]

So cyrptic as usual!
Maybe we'll find out in the AUTOBIOGRAPHY! (Yeah,RIGHT!

[strandinthewind]

Joe Walsh - hand down Anyone who knows anything about him knows he is, to put it mildly, a little eccentric (think the bright blue clouds suit ), to put it vividly, nuts - and Stevie dated him for like five + years in the 80's and apparently was in love with him

The only other person I can think of that even remotely compares would be Prince, but to my knowledge, they never had anything but a friendship, but they were estranged for awhile - and, although in the song, she says she "used to call him friend," I get the sense that she is talking about a romantic relationship

[dissention]

Joe Walsh? Heck no. It's all about Prince. Walsh and Stevie didn't break up because he thought her life was too wild, she left him because he didn't give her enough attention.

I think it's a dead giveaway that it's about Prince when she says "one of the stranger male rock stars." She used to call Prince a friend, he more than likely thought she was wicked when it came to how she lived her life (drugs, booze, etc.), and that's why they stopped being friends (the cough syrup incident ). Yet she doesn't understand how he can be so judgemental about ehr life when he's just as wild as she is.

[Kelly]

Sounds like it's about Prince to me too. Do you guys think she ever hooked up with him? I know she has said they never slept together, (although he wanted to) but is she being up front about their friendship/relationship? The timeline of the mid eighties is a bit confusing to me and I am not sure even where he would fit in. Jimmy Iovine, (81/82) Kim Anderson, Joe Walsh (83/84), Les Dudek, Rupert Hine (86/87?)..not that he would really need to fit in anywhere...I don't think they had a "relationship" .
Slightly off topic but who, if anyone, did Stevie "date" during Rock a Little time? Her relationship with JW ended during the RAL sessions, Les Dudek helped her on RAL, but who else was there at that time?

[DrummerDeanna]

I don't know- Joe Walsh is, like Strand said, an eccentric fellow...he's the first one that popped into my mind with that quote....

[cliffdweller]

Nah! It's gotta be Prince. That's the first person I thought of.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by dissention

Joe Walsh? Heck no. It's all about Prince. Walsh and Stevie didn't break up because he thought her life was too wild, she left him because he didn't give her enough attention.

Paula

[LilyRose]

Originally Posted by AliP

I was so miserable, so upset, and so heartbroken

Because she says this, it makes me think she's talking about Joe. I don't think Price ever broke her heart.

It is hard to know which one she's talking about, but I think b/c she's been so elusive about Joe in the past, she's talking about him.

Susie

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by AliP

Up Close with Stevie Nicks - 1994
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I don't know...maybe Prince or Joe Walsh??

I think it's either Henley (who had gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble there for a while, including the teenage girl in his bathtub incident) or Walsh.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Kelly

Sounds like it's about Prince to me too. Do you guys think she ever hooked up with him?

No.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Joe Walsh - hand down Anyone who knows anything about him knows he is, to put it mildly, a little eccentric (think the bright blue clouds suit ),

Ha! Which is exactly what he was wearing when I might him, except the suit coat was electric royal blue and brassy bleach blonde hair. What a trip.

[sparky]

I think it's got to be about that face-like-a-foot Joe Walsh.

Even in spite of all the innuendo and the "scandal" the pairing of her and Prince still inspires in people, I do not believe they ever had a relationship. A fling ? Maybe. Something substantial ? No way. Stevie has been fairly candid about who she has and has not been involved with. Unless she thought her parents would have a heart attack if they knew she dated a black man ( ), I doubt she would go to such lengths to deny dating him. Why bother ? It's not like we don't all know WAY too much about her romantic/sexual history than we should already.

[no_spoken_word]

I don't think it's about Prince. Does anyone have that Details article from 1994? She talks about her history with Prince; the recording of Stand Back and when she freaked out at the premiere of Purple Rain, then the incident with the cough syrup, but I think that's all there was between them.

Oh jeez, anybody have that article?

[amber]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I think it's either Henley (who had gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble there for a while, including the teenage girl in his bathtub incident) or Walsh.

I thought of Henley, too...but would he be described as one of the more strange male rock stars? Although i think he's probably really strange, he doesn't necessarily seem as strange as some others.
And, it's possible that although Stevie has been forthcoming with her main relationships, where she dated someone who wasn't with someone else, or whatever, it's still possible that there may be a lot of people we don't know about...or at least some...you know, more clandestine relationships?
Amber